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Victor is born soon after they're married.
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Alphonse and Caroline adopt a sister, Elizabeth, into the Frankenstein family.
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Victor sees a tree get struck by lightning, which inspires him about science.
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Victor meets and becomes friends with Henry Clerval
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Elizabeth catches the Scarlet fever
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Victor leaves the university of Ingolstadt
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Victor gets a lab and begins assembling the monster. (pg 50)
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Studies Chemistry and Philosophy (pg 52)
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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 because he stays inside for too long working on his monster. (pg 56)
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"One of my first duties ... was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university" pg.65
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"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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" 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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"Dear Victor, banish these dark passions remember the friends around you, who centre all their hopes in you..." (Pg89)
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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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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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"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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"I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night." (Chapter 19)
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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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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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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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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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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)