Frankenstein -- Nuyen

Frankenstein's Dad marries his mom.

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Alphonse Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein's dad, marries the daughter of one of his closests friends after his friend dies. (p32)

Elizabeth gets taken into the family

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Frankenstein's mother notices an orphan. She decides to take her into the family and raise her as her own and Frankenstein becomes infatuated with her. (p33)

Frankenstein Chapters

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Frankenstein meets Henry Clerval

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After moving to Geneva Frankenstein meets a boy his aged named Henry Clerval who is the son of a merchant. They grow up together as best friends and share a happy and carefree childhood. (p37)

Frankenstein reads the works of Agrippa

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Frankenstein reads a dated book on natural philosophy by Cornelius Agrippa. Instead of explaining why the theories within it are no longer valid Frankenstein's father offhandedly dismisses it causing Frankenstein to become obsessed with the theories. (p38)

Frankenstein's Mother dies

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Frankenstein's mother, while tending to Elizabeth, who has scarlet fever, catches it herself and dies. Her dying wish is for Frankenstein and Elizabeth to get married and they eventually do get married. (p42)

Frankenstein goes to Ingostadt

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Frankenstein goes to Ingostadt, a university, and introduces himself to his Professors. He takes an immediate liking to Professor Waldman and dislikes Professor Krempe. The professors explain that his knowledge of science is significantly outdated. (p45)

Frankenstein becomes interested in life

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Frankenstein quickly becomes a top student in the university. In his studies Frankenstein becomes incredibly interested in the mechanics of life and how it works. (p50)

Frankenstein starts to create the monster

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Frankenstein makes a connection between life and electricity. He starts to go gravedigging, combining all the dead body parts he scavenges into a cadaver he intends to animate. (p50)

The monster comes alive

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Frankenstein, after animating the monster, becomes disgusted with what he has done and flees. When he is in town he meets Henry and when they arrive back at Frankenstein's dorm the monster has slipped away. (p56)

Victor's Character Development

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Victor starts of as a happy, yet driven and ambitious boy as a child. As he grows up is focuses change to those of the natural sciences, but he retains is extremely high ambition.

Frankenstein becomes very sick

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After coming back Frankenstein wants to have nothing to do with his experiments. He falls ill and becomes very weak while Henry nurses him back to health. (p60)

Victor receives Elizabeth's letter

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"'Dear, dear Elizabeth!' I exclaimed when I had read her letter. 'I will write instantly and relieve them of the anxiety they must feel.'"
(p 65)

Frankenstein sees the monster

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"A flash of lighting illuminated the object and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect..." (p73)

Justine is put on trial

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"I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow up on the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts."(p85)

Victor feels guilty for Justine's death

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... I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.'' (pg.86)

The monster starts telling his story

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"But I consented to listen; and, seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale." (p97)

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"It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before." (p103)

The creature becomes aware of its own emotions

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"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past were blotted with memory, the present was tranquil, and the future guided by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy." (p110)

Frankenstein sees the old man and girl's love

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"It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before." (p103)

Frankenstein learns about Safie from the Monster

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"'The father of Safie had been cause of their ruin. He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government." (p117)

Victor's character development

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Victor starts to loathe himself for the pain that the monster brought to the people he loved. He distances himself from the natural sciences and spends time in nature.

The monster finds books

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The monster finds a bag full of books and reads them. He feels the emotions that the books inspire in people and especially enjoys Paradise Lost. (p122)

The family leaves the cottage

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After seeing the monster the family gets terrified. They sell the cottage for a loss and flee. The monster never sees the family again. (p130)

The monster asks for a wife

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The monster finishes his tale. He asks Victor to make him a companion using the same method and Victor reluctantly agrees. (p140)

Victor returns to his family

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Victor goes back to Geneva. His father asks him if he wants to marry Elizabeth and he says he does, and the family is very happy. He and Clerval journey across the English countryside. (p149)

Frankenstein starts making the monster's companion

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After travelling in Scotland with Clerval and another traveler Frankenstein goes to the most remote part of Scotland to start building the monster. He is disgusted with his work and takes no pleasure in building it. (p156)

Frankenstein kills the monster's bride

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Frankenstein is appalled by what he has made and destroys the bride before it is finished. The monster is furious and threatens Frankenstein, telling him that he will be with him on his wedding night. (p159)

Victor's character development

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Victor looks on what he used to love with horror. He takes no pleasure in making another creature and only finds peace in nature. When in nature Victor's spirits are lifted significantly.

Victor is accused of Clerval's murder

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"'Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agonizing than the strange chances that have lately occurred... so unaccountable a manner and paced, as it were, by some fiend across your path." (p170)

Victor spends time with Elizabeth before the marriage

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"Those were the last moments of my life during which I enjoyed the feeling of happiness. We passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from is rays by and kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene..." (p183)

Elizabeth is killed by the monster

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"The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips." (p186)

Victor dies and the monster kills himself.

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"I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being..." (p211)

Victor's character development

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Victor no doesn't experience any happiness, only a thirst for revenge. He looks upon his earlier actions and ambition with regret, begging Walton not to follow in his footsteps before his illness overtakes him.