Frankenstein--Carpino

Elizabeth is adopted

1 CE

Victor's father and mother adopt Elizabeth into the Frankenstein family in Italy. (pg. 34-35)

Beaufort dies

1 CE

A friend of Victor's father, Beaufort, passes away due to extreme poverty. His daughter, Caroline, marries Victor's father later on. (pg. 32)

Frankenstein Chapters

Period: 1 CE to 24

Victor reads Cornelius Agrippa

2

Victor reads Agrippa, a book that his father describes as "sad trash" (pg. 38)

Victor witnesses a lightning strike

2

Victor sees a lightning bolt strike and disintegrate an oak tree just 20 yards from his house. This sparks his interest in electricity. (pg. 40)

Caroline dies

3

Caroline, Victor and Elizabeth's mother, dies from scarlet fever. Her last words include asking Victor and Elizabeth to marry when they grow older. (pg. 42)

Victor arrives at Ingolstadt

3

Victor arrives at Ingolstadt University to continue his education. He meets his favorite professor, M. Waldman.

Victor Starts Creating his Monster

4

Victor decided to create something that has a structure like a human's. (pg. 52)

Victor grows insane

4

As he is making the monster, he grows insane and mad, for even a leaf dropping startles him. (pg. 55)

The monster is born

5

Frankenstein finishes his creation, and it disappears after he runs away from it in total fear. (pg. 57)

Clerval takes care of Victor

5

When Henry Clerval arrived at Ingolstadt, he takes care of Victor, as he is very ill from his fiasco making the monster (pg. 60-61)

Character Development - Ch 1-5

5

In Chapters 1-5, we can see that Victor had an interest for science at an early age, making him curious. However when he goes to a university, his obsession to his experiments drive him insane and he creates his monster.

Victor Returns to Geneva

6

"Winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable...I felt this delay very bitterly, for I longed to see my native town and my beloved friends." (pg 67)

William is Murdered

7

"William is dead! That sweet child, whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered!" (pg 69)

Justine is executed and Victor feels Guilty

8

"I wish that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery." (pg 84)

Victor Considers Suicide

9

"This state of mind preyed upon my health...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)

Victor Meets his Monster

10

"I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretched whom I had created." (pg 94)

The Monster meets the family

11

"Night quickly shut in, but to my extreme wonder, I found that the cottages had a means of prolonging light by the use of tapers, and was delighted to find that the setting of the sun did not put an end to the pleasure in watching my human neighbors." (pg 104)

The monster reveals he too has feelings

12

"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers..." (pg116)

The monster learns to speak

13

"My days were spent in close attention, that i might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian." (pg 113)

The monster knows the truth abut Felix

14

"He did not succeed. They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country." (pg120)

Ch 6-14 - Character development

14

As the monster tells Victor his story, Frankenstein is starting to feel the regret of making his monster. He realizes that his creation has feelings and emotions just like him, and he is the cause of the monster's sad story.

The monster finds out he was an abandended creation

15

The monster reads Victor's notes and is disgusted by the truth. He asks why Victor even created him if he was hideous. (pg 124)

The monster describes his encounter with William

16

The monster explains to Victor that he swore to take revenge against all humans, and sets off to do so. When he encounters William and finds out he's related to Victor, he kills him. (pg 136)

The monster requests a companion

17

After finishing his story, he asks Victor for a companion to be with. He also promises he will disappear forever if Victor does so, and he will be forgotten for good. (pg 138)

Victor sets off to England

18

After agreeing to make the monster's companion, he needs to get to England for research. Along the way, accompanied by his friend Clerval, he reaches London. (pg 147-150)

Victor starts his work again

19

Victor stops by a Scottish town to set up a laboratory to start his work. He knows it will be unsatisfying when he finishes, but he does so anyway. (pg 156)

Ch 15-20 - Character development

20

Victor becomes less and less happy with his decisions, being that he agreed to making the monster's companion. When he finally realizes what he's doing, he destroys his work in progress, indicating he's becoming more and more normal in making the right decisions.

Victor destroys his project

20

After considering what might happen if he does make this companion, he destroys his work in progress. He fears they might start a whole new species of their own, and decided to stop. (pg 159)

The monster kills Henry Clerval

21

"The examination, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses, passed like a dream from my memory when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me." (pg 169)

Victor is Married

22

"My father was in the meantime overjoyed and in the bustle of preparation only recognized in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride." (pg 184)

Elizabeth is murdered

23

"I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardor, but the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished. The murderous mark of the fiends grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips." (pg 186)

Victor chases his creation

24

"But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being." (pg 192)

Ending Letters - The monster leaves forever

25

"I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, I t will not surely think thus. Farewell." (pg 211)

Ch 21-24 Character Development

26

Now Victor is in utmost regret when both his best friend and his wife are killed by his creation. He is now so mentally unstable from sadness and regret that he starts chasing his creation like a child, in which kills him from fatigue at the end of the novel.