What is the setting of Frankenstein?

There
are various settings in 's
. At the beginning of the story, the frame

narrativenarrated by takes place on board a ship which is en route to the North Pole.
This icy,
near-polar landscape will return to import later in the story
astreks after his Creature towards
the icy wastelands.

Victor Frankenstein's story, however, begins in Italy. He
is of
Genevan origin, but grows up in Naples. It is not until he goes to university in
Germany,
howeverin the town of Ingolstadtthat Frankenstein begins to
experiment with the science of
dissecting and reanimating corpses. It is in
Ingolstadt that he raids charnel houses for
suitable dead bodies and manages
to actually bring his Creature to life.

Another
significant setting in the novel is the mountainous countryside near Geneva
in
Switzerland. Frankenstein retreats here to recover from the illness he has
succumbed to through
shock at his own creation.follows Victor to Geneva and
describes how he has lived a lonely life
of exile in the
wilderness.

The action then moves to Scotland, where
Victor
tries to create a bride for his creature. He is also briefly in
Ireland, but returns soon to
marry Elizabeth in Geneva. It is after the
murder of Elizabeth on their wedding night that the
Creature flees for the
North Pole and Victor follows him, resulting in the encounter with
Captain
Walton, which began the whole story.