In chapter
one of , Shelley uses first-person narration in the voice of , and the
novel begins as a retrospective of prior events. Victor'sis typically hyperbolic as he describes
how his father met and married his mother; Victor's father exhibited "a show of gratitude
and worship in his attachment." The narrator's hyperbolic description of his idyllic
childhood replete with doting parents ("I was their plaything and their idol") will
provide later contrast for the abandonment ofby his creator. This first chapter also explains
how Elizabeth became his sister and is also hyperbolic: "Everyone loved Elizabeth. The
passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her." The tone with
which Shelley instills Victor is self-aggrandizing and melodramatic and perfectly suited to a
character that will place himself alongside God as a creator of life.
Victor
uses ato describe the parenting he received as "a silken cord...
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