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"...we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated. Our situation was somewhat dangerous, especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog. We accordingly lay to, hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and weather."
The remote setting of the North Pole/the Arctic creates an isolated and mysterious mood, which serves the theme of the story. This is because the feeling of isolation continues throughout the story.

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"In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and stair- case, I kept my workshop of filthy creation..."
In Ingolstadt, Victor's chamber reflects the isolation that is present within the story because it separates Victor and his ambitions from the rest of the world. He works tirelessly in this chamber to focus on his work, which facilitates his crazy emotional down-whirl.

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"...her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features."
This is direct characterization of Elizabeth, but since it is told through Victor's perspective, it also demonstrates something about himself. The way Victor describes her shows a bias of Elizabeth's unwavering goodness because he is really fond of his sister. Victor can be a nice guy.

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"My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement ; but by some law in my temperature they were turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately."
Victor is obsessed with having so much knowledge that it is ultimately going to cause his destruction. He is reckless with his emotions because he only desires one thing.

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"He was an uncouth man, but deeply embed in the secrets of his science. He asked me several questions concerning my progress in the different branches of science appertain- ing to natural philosophy. I replied carelessly ; and, partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchymists as the principal authors I had studied. The professor stared : ' Have you,' he said, ' really spent your time in studying such nonsense ?' "
Krempe is chastising and cruel towards Victor. He belittles Victor for pursuing natural philosophy.

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"'If your wish is to become really a man of science, and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.'"
Waldman is like a kind and caring father who listens to his son's ideas, discusses them, and shares his own. He motivates Victor to pursue what he desires. Waldman is a positive aspect in Victor's life.

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"A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch... it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived."
Victor describes how horrible his creation looks. The dramatization and negative connotation of how the creature looks further demonstrates how scary it is because his own creator can't stand to look at him. Victor has created a monster.

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"He came to the university with the design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, as thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for himself."
Clerval is intelligent and determined. He shares Frankenstein’s desire to achieve great things at any cost.

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"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils."
Stating 'dreary night' reflects the idea that the monster born into darkness, which creates a somber tone. It's like the night predicted the future of the monster and Victor: dreary.

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" I do no not fear to die," she said ; " that pang is past. God raises my weakness, and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world ; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am re- signed to the fate awaiting me. "
Justine talks about her fate before her execution, and how her death is the “will of heaven.” This implores the strength that Justine possesses after dealing with so much suffering.  And further demonstrates her courage for dying as an innocent person.

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"...blooming in the loveliness of youth and health. Here, I thought, is one of those whose joy-imparting smiles are bestowed on all but me. And then I bent over her, and whispered ' Awake, fairest, thy lover is near he who would give his life but to obtain one look of affection from thine eyes : my beloved, awake !' "
The way the monster describes Justine shows how empathetic he is and how much he yearns for love. It's like he's a hopeless romantic. Therefore, the monster is bias towards Justine because he is in love with her.

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"All my speculations and hopes are as nothing ; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell."
Frankenstein compares himself to Satan because he feels that he is guilty of too much ambition. Ambition is Victor's greatest flaw. However, by comparing himself to Satan, Victor reveals a similarity to the Monster, who often compares himself to Satan too.

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"I cannot withstand their demands. I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I must return."
Robert Walton decides to abandon his voyage because he feels responsible for the safety of his crew. Walton is an ambitious man like Victor but Walter's responsibilities matter more to him than his ambition.

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"...towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows."
Victor Frankenstein loves the natural world . The beauty of nature bring Victor comfort and this area is like the calm before the storm.

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"These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it."
As Victor travels to the summit of Montanvert he is admiring the restorative power of nature. Its almost like whenever he is in pure nature, he has some peace. The setting has the power to change the way Victor feels and brings him hope.

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"I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink, and the trees that shaded me with their foliage. I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound..."
As the monster describes the forest, it's like nature is the only thing that welcomes him. The welcoming setting contrasts with the way the monster was feeling because everywhere else he's gone, he has been rejected.

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"With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours. It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock, whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves."
Victor stays at Orkney Islands, Scotland in a hut. The sparsely   populated area continues the presence of isolation within the story when creating a second creature to be a companion to the monster.

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"I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky."
When Victor states "comfortless sky" it reflects his inner emotions after creating the monster. Victor is disgusted by the monster and his apartment is the source of his discomfort because that is where Victor created the creature.

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" It was dark when I awoke ; I felt cold also, and half- frightened, as it were instinctively, finding myself so desolate. Before I had quitted your apartment, on a sensation of cold..."
The monster's description of the apartment emphasizes the somber feeling that is elicited within that setting. Its cold and dark nature is felt within both the monster and Victor. Most likely because Victor's apartment is where the unnatural creature was created. In a way, it's housing the trauma that is the monster's birth.

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"The moon had reached her summit in the heavens, and was beginning to descend ; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture, and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise. Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended."
Victor personifies the moon, clouds, and lake which facilitates the romanticism that is seen throughout the story. Ultimately, it sets the tone for the chapter and reflects the mood of the whole story.

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"From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation."
Conflict first arises when Victor makes studying at the University of Ingolstadt his sole priority. This is because throwing himself into his studies caused him to neglect his own health and his family. He is setting himself up for failure.

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"I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed."
I believe Victor displays the role of a Mad Scientist because he is obsessed with the knowledge of life and with completing the creature. Therefore, he continues the conflict within the story by only focusing on his creation.

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"I stepped fearfully in : the apartment was empty ; and my bed-room was also freed from its hideous guest."
The plot thickens. With the creature missing it is certain that he would become an issue later within the story. It. also doesn't help that. Victor does nothing about his disappearance, which creates more tension within the story. Where is he (the monster)? What will he do?

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"A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me ; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life. What did he there ? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother ? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, then I became convinced of its truth..."
Here he goes again... Victor is put in a tough position, but acts with his ambition rather than responsibility. By not doing anything regarding the monster killing his brother, Victor heightens the conflict because Justine is later executed, at the expense of Victor's inability.

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" 'Be calm ! I entreat you to hear me, before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have I not sufFered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?' "
Meeting with the monster gives Victor the opportunity to fix his actions, which alleviates some tension from the story. This is because the reader no longer needs to worry about the actions of the monster. And, by listening to the creature's story, it is revealed that the monster is more compassionate than one could imagined.

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"I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."
When Victor agrees to create a mate for the creature in exchange for the two of them going somewhere remote there is some potential resolution within the whole story. This is because if the monster promises to leave, Victor's problems would be alleviated, which relieves some of the tension between the monster and Victor. Things are. looking up.

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"...for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me ; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, per- haps, of the existence of the whole human race."
The conflict begins again when Victor is too disgusted to carry out this plan and destroys the female monster before completing it. This means that his reckless decision will cause chaos when the monster discovers that he will no longer have a mate. Theres gonna be a showdown.

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"I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me. I gasped for breath; and, throwing myself on the body, I exclaimed,  'Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life ? Two I have already destroyed ; other victims await their destiny : but you, Clerval, my friend, my benefactor.' "
Since Victor doesn’t think about what his decision of destroying the monster's mate would result in, he is genuinely surprised when his friend, Henry Clerval, is killed. This incident continues the conflict because it is obvious that the monster is out for revenge. Who knows if he is going to kill someone else at the expense of Victor's ambition.

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"I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour ; but the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished. The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips."
The murder of Elizabeth, Victor's fiancee, shifts the conflict into its final stage. This causes Victor to vow to hunt down and kill the monster in revenge for all of the deaths that he has caused. This means that the only way to resolve the dispute between the monster and Victor is for one of them to die. dun dun dunnnn

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"  'Fear not that I shah 1 be the instrument of future mis- chief. My work is nearly complete. Neither yours nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being, and accomplish that which must be done ; but it requires my own. Do not think that I shall be slow to perform this sacrifice. I shall quit your vessel on the ice- raft which brought me thither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe...' "
The falling action of the novel quickly concludes with the monster explaining his plan to kill himself, then setting off alone to carry out his plan.  This bleak ending resolves all conflict now that the monster will cease to exist and no other human can recreate such a thing.

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" These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven ; for nothing con- tributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose, a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years."
The speaker in the beginning is revealed to be Captain Walton. He seems to love exploring and shares his excitement. Through his letters, Walton demonstrates on optimistic introduction as he shares about his life and dreams.

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"Only one dog remained alive ; but there was a human being within it, whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but an European."
This excerpt is clearly through a third person perspective because the reader is aware of what is going on through on observant eye. This creates some closeness between the narrator and the reader.

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"Oh ! no mortal could support the horror of that counte- nance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished ; he was ugly then ; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived."
This section demonstrates that Victor is an unreliable narrator because he has a negative bias towards the creature. Since he detests the monster so much, his opinion regarding his creation will most likely always be against him. This creates narrative distance because everything the reader knows about the creature is biased.

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" 'I have written myself into better spirits, dear cousin ; but my anxiety returns upon me as I conclude. Write, dearest Victor, one line one word will be a blessing to us. Ten thousand thanks to Henry for his kindness, his affection, and his many letters : we are sincerely grateful. Adieu! my cousin; take care of yourself ; and, I entreat you, write !' "
Elizabeth is seen as a reliable narrator because she has a caring attitude. Her letters were full of news from home that delighted Victor so much that it and restored his health. Her omniscient perspective of their home life also. allows the reader to have a better understanding of the situational factors that entice Elizabeth to write to Victor.

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"I could not sustain the horror of my situation ; and when I perceived that the popular voice, and the countenances of the judges, had already condemned my unhappy victim, I rushed out of the court in agony. The tortures of the accused did not equal mine ; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom,, and would not forego their hold."
In comparing his struggles to Justine's, who is literally being executed over a crime she did not commit, reveals more on Victor's unreliable narration. He is too self-absorbed because he lets his ambition overrule his responsibilities.

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" 'Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.' "
The first introduction to the creature after his escape reveals that he is eloquent and quite fluent. His narrative reveals that he is more reliable than Victor due to his sophistication and because he is not as terrible as Victor had described him to be. Meaning, Victor's opinion was definitely biased.

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" 'I am thy creature ; I ought to be thy Adam ; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.' "
The narrative of monster results in the reader feeling
sympathy for the monster because he compares himself to Satan. Also, by using a first person perspective the creature has a close narrative distance because the reader is actually aware of his emotions, which creates the sympathetic feel.

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" 'Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her, every trait of sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy, of which I could hardly have believed it capable ; his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with pleasure ; and at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger.' "
As the creature speaks about Felix through an observant eye, he is demonstrating a limited third person point of view. This is because the creature solely focuses on Felix's story and actions.

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" 'It is well. I go ; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.' "
The creature is pretty much threatening Victor Frankenstein which limits how reliable the Monster's narration is because he can become revengeful. Therefore, the creature is creating some bias and distance in threatening his creator.

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" 'I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away ; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace ; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.' "
The creature's narration at the end of the story reveals a first person perspective. However, this perspective is great because it demonstrates the creatures inner feelings which are of great sadness and despair. This makes the reader sympathize with the creature again and creates a close narrative distance because all he wanted was love, but instead feels that it is best to die.

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"You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret ; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine ? Sometimes, seized with sudden agony, he could not continue his tale ; at others, his voice broken, yet piercing, uttered with difficulty the words so replete with anguish; His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness."
The narration switches to Walton's perspective and reveals that he has retold Victor's story. which makes him an omniscient narrator since he is aware of the perspective of both Victor and the creature and their stories.

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Mary Shelley demonstrates Romanticism throughout Frankenstein through the use of setting, character development, narrative voice, and tone.

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Frankenstein, has multiple narrators who tell the story of the Victor's creation and his actions through the perspective of Victor Frankenstein himself,  Robert Walton, and the Creature.

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Victor Frankenstein's need to follow his ambition rather than be responsible for his actions is what ultimately led to his death due to the guilt he felt over the death of his closest friends, as well as because of his obsession of having lots of knowledge.

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The theme of isolation is continued throughout Frankenstein as it is revealed through the setting, as well as through the emotions of Victor and his creation.

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Victor Frankenstein displays that he is an unreliable narrator due to his characterization, lack of responsibility, and the bias that he holds for other characters within the story.