where did Frankenstein happen?(the story)?

Answer 1

Bram Stoker set his "Dracula" novel in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania, which when he wrote it was still part of Hungary, and only later was to become part of Romania.

A mountainous setting was also used for film versions of the final scenes of Mary Shelley's Gothic novel "Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus" where enraged torch-brandishing villagers set out to hunt down and capture an escaped and fleeing Frankenstein's Monster but in the novel at least they were in the Swiss moutains. Near the well-known ski resort of Chamonix.

(There have been so may film treatments, to confuse the issue, some of them spoofs, like Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein". Brooks' Frankenstein is a descendant who inherits and returns to a family castle used by the original Victor Frankenstein for his experiments and the action is thereby confined to one location and its immediate environs),

Certainly the novel arose after Lord Byron had invited Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (his fiance) to Switzerland.

During the snowy summer of 1816, the "Year Without A Summer," the world was locked in a long cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Tambora in 1815. In this terrible year, the then Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, age 19, and her husband-to-be Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

The weather was consistently too cold and dreary that summer to enjoy the outdoor vacation activities they had planned, so after reading Fantasmagoriana, an anthology of German ghost stories, Byron challenged the Shelleys and his personal physician John William Polidori to each compose a story of their own, the contest being won by whoever wrote the scariest tale.

Mary conceived an idea after she fell into a waking dream or nightmare during which she saw "the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together." This was the germ of Frankenstein.

Byron managed to write just a fragment based on the vampire legends he heard while travelling the Balkans, and from this Polidori created The Vampyre (1819), the progenitor of the romantic vampire literary genre. Thus, the Frankenstein and vampire themes were created from that single circumstance.

More recently, Radu Florescu, in his In Search of Frankenstein, argued that Mary and Percy Shelley stayed at Castle Frankenstein on their way to Switzerland, near Darmstadt along the Rhine, where a notorious alchemist named Konrad Dippel had experimented with human bodies, And that Darmstadt was the inspiration for the setting of the novel, therefore.

The problem with answering your question is that the action moves around. There is no one single setting.

The novel starts with Frankenstein as a young student going away to college where he develops his ideas on creating life.

Curious and intelligent from a young age, he learns from the works of the masters of Medieval alchemy, reading such authors as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus and shunning modern Enlightenment teachings of natural science. He leaves his beloved family in Geneva, Switzerland to study in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany, where he is first introduced to modern science.

In a moment of inspiration, combining his new-found knowledge of natural science with the alchemic ideas of his old masters, Victor perceives the means by which inanimate matter can be imbued with life. He sets about constructing a man—perhaps intended as a companion,

He succeeds, the creature escapes. Shock and overwork cause Victor to take ill for several months. After recovering, in about a year's time, he receives a letter from home informing him of the murder of his youngest brother William. He departs for Switzerland at once.

Near Geneva, Victor catches a glimpse of the creature in a thunderstorm among the rocky boulders of the mountains, and is convinced that it killed William. Upon arriving home he finds Justine, the family's beloved maid, framed for the murder.

To Victor's surprise, Justine makes a false confession because her minister threatens her with excommunication. Despite Victor's feelings of overwhelming guilt, he does not tell anyone about his horrid creation and Justine is convicted and executed. To recover from the ordeal, Victor goes hiking into the mountains where he encounters his "cursed creation" again, this time on the Mer de Glace, a glacier above Chamonix.

The creature converses with Victor and tells him his story, speaking in strikingly eloquent and detailed language. He describes his feelings first of confusion, then rejection and hate. He explains how he learned to talk by studying a poor peasant family through a chink in the wall. He performs in secret many kind deeds for this family, but in the end, they drive him away when they see his appearance. He gets the same response from any human who sees him. The creature confesses that it was indeed he who killed William and framed Justine, and that he did so out of revenge.

After further plot complications, Victor chases the monster away. These scenes are generally cut from film versions of the book,

Victor now becomes the hunter: he pursues the creature into the Arctic ice, though in vain. Near exhaustion, he is stranded when an iceberg breaks away, carrying him out into the ocean. Before death takes him, Captain Walton's ship arrives and he is rescued.

Walton assumes the narration, describing a temporary recovery in Victor's health, allowing him to relate his extraordinary story. However, Victor's health soon fails, and he dies.

Unable to convince his shipmates to continue north and bereft of the charismatic Frankenstein, Walton is forced to turn back towards England under the threat of mutiny.

Finally, the creature boards the ship and finds Victor dead, and greatly laments what he has done to his maker. He vows to commit suicide. He leaves the ship by leaping through the cabin window onto the ice, and is never seen again.

Quite a long picaresque adventure, therefore, spanning several countries, mountains, sheet ice and the sea.

Answer 2

The actual story is told onboard a ship travelling from St Petersburgh, Russia, to Archangel in the North Pole.

The events narrated about Frankenstein happen in Ingolstadt, Geneva, Chamounix, Strasbourg, Paris, London, Perth, the Orkneys, Lake Como, Tartary, and Russia.

He sure got around didn't he?

I guess the message here is that it doesn't matter where or how far you go, you can't escape your personal demons.

Answer 3

very confusing
cause dr. frankenstein moves around a lot
Dr. Victor Frankenstein starts in Geneva - he grew up there
he moves to a university (still relatively close) and returns to Geneva several times
then later
he leaves the monster in Scotland
he goes to england to create the female monster
returns to Geneva to marry elizabeth whos murdered
dies in geneva on ice

Answer 4

Lake Como (northern Italy)

Answer 5

Transylvania

Answer 6

in fantasy land?