PICTURE LEFT: The original first page of Frankenstein when it was published.
Denouement is the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. The denouement of Frankenstein when the ship captain explains that Victor has died after explaining to the captain why he is out there in the first place. To show to the reader that Victor is simply not hallucination or making all this up because he's delirious, Mary Shelly has the captain see that the monster is crying over Victor's body. This is a very confusing scene because it isn't know whether the monster feels sorry for his creator, regrets his actions, or just sad because he wishes that things had been different. It is then implied that the monster wandered into the Arctic to die. |