Frankenstein Direct Characterization

Throughout Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, direct characterization is used to describe the characters. Shelly goes on  throughout the story talking about the characters, directly telling their stories. Shelly goes on for multiple pages describing each character as they are introduced. This is key in how Shelly characterizes her characters. Talking about each character, including simply Frankenstein's parents requires a considerable amount of space in order for Shelly to tell about her characters. One thing I noticed regarding this is that while minor characters received rather lengthy characterizations, the creature Doctor Frankenstein creates receives significantly less space. Shelly is able to put the creature's characterization into a short amount of space yet still vividly describes the monster. She writes "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contract with his watery eyes..." (35). Shelly uses direct characterization in order to further her story, and give the readers a better image in their head.