Mary Shelley opens Frankenstein with a series of letters from Captain Walton to his sister, telling of his expedition to the north pole and the stranger he encounters who tells a story... Why frame the book this way? For the same reason a handwritten letter in your mailbox - if that ever happens - strikes you differently than an email or a text. The letter is REAL.
Mary Shelley opens Frankenstein with a series of letters from Captain Walton to his sister, telling of his expedition to the north pole and the stranger he encounters who tells a story... Why frame the book this way? For the same reason a handwritten letter in your mailbox - if that ever happens - strikes you differently than an email or a text. The letter is REAL.