Frankenstein

I am excited to read this novel again. I greatly enjoyed it the first time. For today's discussion we had to read the letters and preface. That's one of the things I found interesting about this book, how it's a story within a story. Later in the novel, when the doctor meets his creature in the mountains, and the creature tells his story, it's his story within the doctor's story within the Arctic explorer's story. Kind of confusing, but there it is. Looking at the study notes/lecture on this book also made me reflect on the sublime aspects of it. Nature in the novel is truly sublime, from the beautiful yet dangerous Arctic ice to the mountain and lake near the doctor's home. The creature itself could also fall under that category. He is terrifying, but also amazing because his existence seems to defy the laws of the natural world.