the creation of the monster. However, the biggest degree of ascension occurs when Victor meets the monster for the first time since its creation. The monster’s narration and request for a companion defines the battle between the creator and the monster. From that point on, tension mounts with every action that Victor commits. Victor’s destruction of his work on a new creation pits the two men as utter rivals, with Victor fighting the impending doom of time and anxiety. This action rises all the way until Victor’s life comes to its symbolic end when he loses the only two people left that he cares about, his father and his wife Elizabeth. Climax: The climax of the novel occurs on Victor’s wedding night. The monster’s words of warning about being with Victor on his wedding night provide a degree of suspense. The reader is pushed to the point of excitement to discover something that can already be assumed, that the monster will strike again. The pinnacle of the story occurs as Elizabeth screams, and Victor realizes that he has lost, that everyone he knows is gone on account of his actions, and that the monster has won. Denounment, or Falling Action: The falling action occurs after both Elizabeth and Victor’s father have died. At this point, Victor’s life has all but been completely ruined. The remainder of the novel is concerned with the describing how Victor dedicated the rest of his life to pursuing his monster throughout the continent and the north. The novel wraps up when Walton retakes to his letter writing to his sister, telling about the perils the ship is undergoing. The conclusion occurs when Victor dies, and the monster returns for his departing monologue, and Walton is left by himself. Flashback: Flashbacks are not used in the novel Frankenstein, at least not in the context by where the author takes the reader back to a certain time period in the past to relate events in the third-person...
