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Victor's father and mother adopt Elizabeth into the Frankenstein family in Italy. (pg. 34-35)
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A friend of Victor's father, Beaufort, passes away due to extreme poverty. His daughter, Caroline, marries Victor's father later on. (pg. 32)
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Victor reads Agrippa, a book that his father describes as "sad trash" (pg. 38)
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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)
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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)
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Victor arrives at Ingolstadt University to continue his education. He meets his favorite professor, M. Waldman.
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Victor decided to create something that has a structure like a human's. (pg. 52)
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As he is making the monster, he grows insane and mad, for even a leaf dropping startles him. (pg. 55)
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Frankenstein finishes his creation, and it disappears after he runs away from it in total fear. (pg. 57)
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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)
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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.
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"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)
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"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)
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"I wish that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery." (pg 84)
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"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)
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"I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretched whom I had created." (pg 94)
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"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)
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"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers..." (pg116)
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"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)
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"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)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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)
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"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)
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"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)
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"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)
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"But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being." (pg 192)
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"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)
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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.