Complete

Complete

Creature's Tale

Creature's Tale

Complete Map and Creature's Tale

What is perhaps needed for a work like Frankenstein is the separation of the text into discreet narrative elements.  One problem with the graph as generated from the entire text is that this distorts spatiality when different parts of the text are narrated by different narrators or the narrative is essentially embedded (a popular structure in the Romantic period).  For Frankenstein the narrative is told respectively by: Walton; Frankenstein; The Creature; Frankenstein; Walton. Ideally the complete map should be broken up into the sections of text told by each.

The partial map for the creature’s narrative is immediately far more readable and useful.  It shows very clearly the centrality of the hovel  as the creature’s main place and also makes clearer that other spaces such as “Leghorn” and “Constantinople” relate to other characters and not to the creature’s own story.  Clear chronotopes emerge in relation to a particular character and section of narrative and allow for comparisons to be made within the work.

The tools used to make these visualisations are available on Github at
https://github.com/chronotopic-cartographies/visualisation-generators.