Audience in Frankenstein
The audience of any story generally functions as the recipient of the narration of the story-teller or of a character in the story. This relationship consists of two roles: the passive role of the audience as the recipient of knowledge or ideas and the active role of the teller as the sender of this information. Furthermore, this passive-active role can be differentiated into a figuratively gendered relationship, traditional to a great deal of literature of the late 1700s and early 1800s, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, of the passive female role asrecipient and the active male role of sender. The wedding guest in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner functions as the audience to the Mariner’s tale. He is mesmerized by the Mariner’s narrative of devastation and has no other choice but to sit and to listen to the hypnotic words. The gendered relationship between the narrator and the audience becomes evident in the opening of the story. The teller of this tale, the ancient Mariner, assumes the figuratively male role as the active narrator of a story, as the one who dictates what the audience hears. The audience of the ta
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Approximate Word count = 1759
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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