Frankenstein - Riahi

Elizabeth is adopted

1 CE

Elizabeth is adopted by the Frankensteins when they visit Italy and is introduced to Victor as his "present". Victor becomes very obsessive and territorial of Elizabeth. (pg. 33-34)

Beaufort dies (Victor's grandpa)

1 CE

Victor's grandfather dies, leaving Caroline an orphan and a beggar. (pg. 32)

Chapters

Period: 1 CE to 24

Victor finds the works of Cornelius Agrippa

2

While Victor is in the inn, he finds the works of Cornelius Agrippa and is immediately drawn to his ideas. He shows the book to his dad but his dad calls the book “sad trash”. (pg. 38-39)

Thunderstorm

2

During a thunderstorm that takes place while Victor is 15 years old, he gets inspired to create life. (pg. 40-41)

Victor’s mom dies

3

Victor’s mom dies of scarlet fever after helping Elizabeth when she was sick with scarlet fever. (pg. 42)

Victor goes to study in Ingolstadt

3

After his mom’s death, Victor leaves his depressive house to venture into the real world. (pg. 42)

Victor gathers materials

4

Victor becomes fascinated with the idea of creating life, and begins to collect dead matter to create his monster. (pg. 50-51)

Victor becomes sick

4

While being so occupied with creating his monster, Victor becomes physically and mentally drained and gets sick. (pg. 54-55)

Victor returns to old habits

4

After ignoring his true interests in dead matter and life itself, Victor returns to his old ways and disregards what his professors tell him about what he should be focusing on. This shows that he has developed to be more independent. (pg. 53)

Monster becomes alive

5

Victor brings his monster to life and is immediately disgusted by his creation. (pg. 56)

Victor’s dream

5

After he brings his monster to life, he goes to sleep and dreams that he sees Elizabeth healthy, but once he kisses her she turns sickly and dead. He wakes up to the monster near his bed. (pg. 57)

Victor introduces Henry to the professors

6

"M. Frankenstein is modest, an excellent quality in a young man. Young men should be diffident of themselves, you know, M. Clerval; I was myself when young, but that wears out in a very short time." - M. Krempe speaking to Clerval. (pg. 66)

William is dead

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 confesses to William's murder

8

"That evidence was hardly required in so glaring a case, but I am glad of it; and, indeed, none of our judges like to condemn a criminal upon circumstantial evidence, be it ever so decisive." (pg. 82)

Victor is a hypocrite

8

Victor's character turns hypocritical as he doesn't let the judge know that Justine did not commit the murder, yet he still feels "guilty". (pg. 80 -81)

Victor is depressed over the execution of Justine

9

"I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony. I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer." (pg. 89)

The monster confronts Frankenstien

10

"All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?" (pg. 95)

The monster recalls his existence to Victor

11

The monster explains his first day of life, and how he ends up in his hovel where he can witness the family's cottage across from him. "On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood. In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible shink through which the eye could just penetrate. Through this crevice a small room was visible..." (pg. 103)

The monster observes the world from his hovel

12

The monster observes the old man, Agatha, and Felix, and learns to speak from their communications he hears. "I discovered the names that were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and applied the words, 'fire,' 'milk,' 'bread,' and 'wood,'." (pg. 107)

Monster reflects on himself

13

The monster observes the villagers and reflects on himself. "But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no father had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which i distinguished nothing." (pg. 115)

The monster learns about the DeLacy's

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." (pg. 120)

The monster finds books

15

The monster finds a sack containing books and clothes, and he reads these books which expands his vocabulary and gives him new insight into life. (pg. 122)

The creature saves a girl

16

Frankenstein's monster attempted to save a little girl who drowned in a river, but when the man with her saw the monster trying to restore her life, he shot him, and the monster realizes his hate for all humankind. (pgs. 134 - 135)

The creature proposes an idea

17

The monster asks Frankenstein to create him a female companion and says that if he does this for him that Frankenstein will never have to look at him again. (pg. 138)

Alphonse Frankenstein tells Victor he should marry Elizabeth

18

Victor's father proposes that Victor and Elizabeth should get married. Frankenstein is excited but nervous about his creation getting in the way. (pg. 144)

Frankenstein goes to work on an island

19

Frankenstein ventures to a very small island populated with only five people to work on his second creation; a bride for his monster.
(pg. 156)

Frankenstein ruins his creation

20

When Victor sees his monster staring at him through the window as he is about to give life to the female, he re-thinks his decisions and tears his creation to shreds. (pg. 159)

Henry Clerval is dead

21

When Frankenstein drifts to land, he is accused by the inhabitants of murder. When he visits the body of the dead person, he discovers that it is Henry and that the monster killed him out of spite. "The examination, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses, passed like a dream from my memory when I saw the lifeless body of Henry Clerval stretched before me." (pg. 169)

Victor and Elizabeth marry

22

Victor and Elizabeth get married after Victor tells her that he will only tell her his secret after they are married. Elizabeth is melancholy the day that they are married because of her nervousness for this secret. "But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day." (pg. 183)

Elizabeth is dead

23

Victor is so worried about the monster hurting him that he forgets about Elizabeth and leaves her alone. The creature kills her. "But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream." (pg. 186)

Walton finds the creature (Letters)

24

Robert Walton finds Frankenstein dead with the creature towering over him and weeping. "I entered the cabin where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend. Over him hung a form which I can not find words to describe..." (pg. 207)

Frankenstein will kill his creation

24

Frankenstein sets out to kill his creation and will not stop until he does. "Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!" (pg. 195)