Novelistic Sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

The article presents a literary criticism of the novel "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, particularly the characters' inability to be successfully sympathetic with one another, but the author argues that the book "relies on compensatory sympathy." The grotesqueness of Frankenstein's body and the story of Safie and the De Laceys are considered as are the frames in which the novel is layered, particularly in that it uses written, spoken, narrative, and epistolary means of conveying the story.