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1 CE
Caroline and Alphonse get married
Victor is born soon after they're married. -
1 CE
Victor gets an adopted sister
Alphonse and Caroline adopt a sister, Elizabeth, into the Frankenstein family. -
Period: 1 CE to 24
Chapters
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Victor sees lightning
Victor sees a tree get struck by lightning, which inspires him about science. -
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Victor meets a friend
Victor meets and becomes friends with Henry Clerval -
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Elizabeth gets ill
Elizabeth catches the Scarlet fever -
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Victor's Education
Victor leaves the university of Ingolstadt -
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Monster assembly
Victor gets a lab and begins assembling the monster. (pg 50) -
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Victor's studies
Studies Chemistry and Philosophy (pg 52) -
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Monster comes to life
Victor's monster comes to life and scares him to death. Victor runs out of the room, terrorized.(pg 56) -
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Victor becomes ill
Victor becomes ill because he stays inside for too long working on his monster. (pg 56) -
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Chapter 6: Henry Clerval is introduced to the professors
"One of my first duties ... was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university" pg.65 -
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Chapter 7: home of the Accused.
"I was firmly convinced in my own mind that Justine, and indeed every human being was guiltless of the" (pg 77) -
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Chapter 8: Elizabeth and Victor visit Justine
" I did confess, but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. The God of heaven forgive me! Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he has threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster he said I was." (pg. 83) -
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Chapter 9 Victor considers
"Dear Victor, banish these dark passions remember the friends around you, who centre all their hopes in you..." (Pg89) -
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Chapter 10: Creature Finds Victor.
"As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed." (Pg. 94) -
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Chapter 11: The monster finds fire.
"I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it." Pg. 99 -
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Chapter 12: Wood Gatherer
After the creature realizes that the family that he is stealing from is in fact being saddened by their poverty the creature helps Felix by gathering wood and putting it on their doorstep so that Felix won't have to do it. "they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves." (Page 106) -
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Chapter 13: Safie Escaped Slavery
"Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her, every trait of sorrow vanished from his face and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy." (Page: 112) -
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Chapter 14: Frankensteins Monster tells about how Safies father was sentenced to death.
"The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin... for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government" ( -
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Chapter 15: The monster discovering that his own creator is horrified by his existence
"God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred." (15.8) -
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Chapter 16: Monster likes Frankenstein
The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart. (16.17) -
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Chapter 17: The monster’s ugly appearance is equated with fiendishness.
A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded—(17.6) -
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Chapter 18:The monster wants someone to just be normal with.
"You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede." (18.2) -
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Chapter 19: The monster's threat
"I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night." (Chapter 19) -
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Chapter 20: Victor thinks that the monster's revenge is "insatiate"
That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfillment of my destiny. In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle. (20.16) -
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Chapter 21: The monster expresses to Victor that he could lose everything if he goes against the monster’s wishes.
I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict." (21.11) -
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Chapter 22: Victor feels that his creation is a secret burden that cannot be relieved.
I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fatal secret. Yet, still, words like those I have recorded would burst uncontrollably from me. I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe. (22.4-5) -
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Chapter 23: Victor is afraid of pulling Elizabeth into his destructive interactions with the monster
Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death. (23.14) -
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Chapter 24: Victor won first place at the state science fair.
trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects. From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition. (24.25)