Narrative Structure

Frame 1
Letter I (December 11th) What may not be expected in a country of eternal
light?
Letter II (March 28th) I desire the company of a man who could sympathise
with me
Letter III (July 7th) Encompassed as I am by frost and snow
Letter IV (August 5th) His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully
emaciated by fatigue and suffering.
(August 13th) Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the
intoxicating draught?
(August 19th) You may deduce an apt moral from my tale
Walton, in continuation (August 26th) Like the archangel who aspired to
omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell
(September 2nd) Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are
endangered through me. If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause.
(September 5th) Be more than men Do not return to your families with
thwe stigma of disgrace marked on your brows.
(September 7th) I have consented to return
(September 12th) I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another
may succeed.
(September 12th Later) Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face

(September 12th Later) The duty of obeying the dying request of my

friend, in destroying his enemy, [was] suspended by a mixture of curiosity and
compassion.
(September 12th Later) The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
(September 12th later) the light of that conflagration will fade away
(September 12th The End) He was soon borne away by the waves, and
lost in darkness and distance.
Frame 2
Volume I
Chapter I I was their plaything and their idol whose future lot it was in
their hands to direct to happiness or misery
Chapter II I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak
Chapter III They penetrate into the recesses of nature
Chapter IV Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first
break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world
Chapter V I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they
became livid with the hue of death and I thought I beheld the corpse of my
dead mother in my arms
Chapter VI A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy
Chapter VII I considered the being nearly in the light of my own vampire
Chapter VIII I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish

Volume II
Chapter I I wandered like an evil spirit
Chapter II How dare you sport thus with life?
Chapter IX Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me!
Volume III
Chapter I This deadly weight yet hanging round my neck
Chapter II I am a blasted tree, the bolt has entered my soul
Chapter III I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human
being
Chapter IV I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness,
penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me
Chapter V I could not sacrifice the whole human race
Chapter VI With his fiendish finger he pointed at the corpse of my wife
Chapter VII My revenge kept me alive
Frame 3
Volume II
Chapter III The whole village attacked me
Chapter IV Reflected in the mirror I was in reality the monster I am
Chapter V What was I?
Chapter VII Felix dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with
a stick
Chapter VIII I bore a hell within me I declared everlasting war upon the
species