Loneliness And Letters In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The significance of the preface and letters is to set up a plot with a twist. Walton’s letters introduce an important character, Walton himself. It introduces many ideas that will show up in the novel.
The letters foreshadow upcoming events in the novel.
The letters foreshadow things such as feelings and themes such as, loneliness which is shown in the second letter.

Chapter one

Victor Frankenstein is the narrating the story. The story takes place in the eighteenth century in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is hiring a crew for a ship. He intends to sail the North Pole and discover magnetism. The ship is stuck in ice and fog.
Captain Walton is feeling foolish because because he thinks his crew is going to continue to risk their lives for

When Frankenstein’s father found him, he was near death. His daughter, Caroline came with him on this journey. After finding out about Beaufort’s death Caroline turned to Master Frankenstein for comfort. The two returned to Geneva and married not too long after that.
Beaufort is Caroline Beaufort’s father. He eventually fell into poverty as a merchant and died.
Elizabeth Lavenza was an orphan child taken in by the Frankenstein family. She has fair skin and golden hair. Her parents died and she was an orphan. She came to live with the Frankenstein family because she was poor.
Victor describes Elizabeth as his most beautiful, valuable possession as a child. She was an object of his unquestioning worship.
Victor sees his childhood as a happy one. He remembers how his parents loved him dearly. Victor admits to having a bad temper, but also acknowledges that he had a thirst for learning.
Henry Clerval is a friend of Victor. He comes to Ingolstadt and helps Victor become healthy again.
Before Victor tells us that time and money meant little to him he states that he is interested in creating life. His primary interests develop in the

Victor’s mother requested that Elizabeth and Victory get married and Elizabeth must act as a mother to Caroline’s younger children.
Victor travels to Germany and leaves his family in Geneva to attend the university of Ingolstadt.

Chapter four:

Frankenstein’s first meeting with his teacher Mr. Krempe s a professor of natural philosophy, was an uncivilized man who was full of the secrets of his science, the meeting did not go so well and the teacher said everything that Victor studied was nonsense and he had to restart his studies.
Victor became Waldman’s best student because both him and Waldman see the value in Paracesus’s work. Waldman is happy to gain discipline.
Frankenstein learned to apply every branch of natural philosophy, including mouth. Frankenstein finds a new passion for science and the chemistry is the branch of natural philosophy with the greatest improvements.

Chapter five:

Victor was interested in the structure of the human frame and any animal. He totally applied himself to physiology.
Victor needs to know more about death to examine the causes of life.
Victor gets the power to animate lifeless