ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Victor Frankenstein is born in Italy; raised in Geneva, Switzerland; and then goes to Ingolstadt, Germany, for his studies-and that’s where he creates the monster. Victor returns to Switzerland while the monster stays in Germany for a time, before his wanderings also take him to Switzerland to find Victor again.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori. The group, trapped indoors by the inclement weather, passed the time telling and writing ghost stories.

Detailed explanation-3: -Creepy statue: Frankenstein is an increasingly popular tourist attraction in the Swiss city of Geneva, where a statue of Mary Shelley’s monster stands tall at Plainpalais–the site where the character committed his first murder.

Detailed explanation-4: -Much of Frankenstein ‘s story unfolds in Switzerland, the country in central Europe where Mary Shelley was staying when she began writing the novel. However, the novel ranges widely within Europe and across the globe. Frankenstein visits Germany, France, England and Scotland.

Detailed explanation-5: -But were Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein today, it might have more to do with Geneva being considered by many as a creature of globalisation. Set in beautiful landscaped gardens, the Villa Diodati, where Shelley was inspired to write the novel, is a magnificent sight – even more so on a warm, cloudless spring day.