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Beaufort dies
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Elizabeth is adopted
ch.1
Carolines founder when she went to Italy and saw her with her orphaned parents a Milanese nobleman and German women. Caroline saw that they were struggling with maintaining her so she brings her back with her to Geneva. -
Victor meets Henry Clerval
ch.2
Henry Clerval is one of his best friends that he grew up with. He was an only child. -
Victor gets interested with electricity
ch.2
He was a amused when he saw a tree that got struck with lighting and started to go in depth and start studying science. -
Age 17 he left home
ch.3
The left to a university to study science and natural philosophy. He's really passionate about pursuing his dream. -
Victors mom dies
ch.3
His mom dies of scarlet fever. He took care of Elizabeth when she was ill now she got ill and passed away. -
Victor studing too much
ch.4
She studies too much that it pushes him too ignore his family and social life. Becoming very isolated and obssesed with his studies. -
Victor changing physically
ch.4 Hes so isolated in working locked away in his apartment that he grows pale , lonely, and obsessed. Loosing contact with the human world. -
The monster
ch.5
Victor wakes up to the monster standing over him mumbling. Victor is scared of what he created and he runs from his house. -
Henry Clerval
Victor runs into his long time friend Henry. Victor gets ill so Henry nurses him back to health and takes him back to Geneva. -
Ch. 6: Victors Teacher Talks to Clerval and Frankenstein
"'Why, M. Clerval, I assure you he has outstripped us all...' continued he, observing my face expressing suffering." (Pg. 66) -
ch 23 Rain on Victor and Elizabeth's Wedding Day PAGE 188
The rain had seized for a moment, and I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours before; they had been observed by Elizabeth." -
Ch.7
Victors younger brother William gets murdered.
"William is dead! That sweet child, whose smilies delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay!Victor, he is murdered!" (pg.69) -
ch. 9
Victor considers suicide but then considers about Elizabeth. "I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation-- deep dark deathlike solitude." (pg.86) -
ch. 12
Observing his neighbors for an extended period of time, the monster notices that they often seem unhappy, though he is unsure why. " If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary begin, should be wretched. Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy." (pg.105) -
ch. 13
As Safie learns the language of the cottagers, so does the monster. "Presently I found, by the frequent recurrence of some sound which the stranger repeated after them, that she was endeavoring to learn their language; and the idea instantly occurred to me that I should make use of the same instructions to the same end." (pg.112) -
ch 21 Victor knows the monster will be with him on his wedding night
"On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death." pg. 167 -
ch 24 Victor makes the decision to chase after the creature
"I took my passage in the same ship, but he escaped, I know not how" Pg. 193 -
Ch.8 Guilt
Victor feels guilt that the monster that he has created has caused two deaths of his family. "Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts." (pg.85) -
ch. 11
His presence causes an old man inside to shriek and run away in fear. The monster proceeds to a village, where more people flee at the sight of him. "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds or missed weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearful took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the places I had beheld in the village." (pg.101) -
ch.14
Felix successfully coordinated her father’s escape from prison, but when the plot was discovered, Felix, Agatha, and DeLacey were exiled from France and stripped of their wealth. "Felix conducted the fugitives through France to Lyons and across Mont Cenis to Leghorn, where the merchant had decided to wait a favorable opportunity of passing into some part of the Turkish domains" (pg. 119) -
ch. 10 Montanvert
Travels to to the summit of Montanvert, hoping that the view of a pure, eternal, beautiful natural scene will revive his spirits.
"What were rain and storm to me? My mule was brought to the door, and I resolved to ascend to the summit of Montanvert." (pg.93)