Frankenstein - Wilson

Elizabeth is adopted

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Pages 34-35. Elizabeth was adopted into the Frankenstein. They saw her in the orphanage and fell in love. She was "given" to Victor.

Caroline's father Buefort dies

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Pages . Caroline is Victor's mom. She marries his dad, but then her father dies. (30)

Chapters

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Gets interested in lightning

2

Victor moves to the country with his family where he sees a lightning storm and a tree get struck. He starts getting fascinated. Starts studying alchemy. (28)

Elizabeth and Victor relationship grows

2

Victor and Elizabeth get really close. (23)

Caroline dies.

3

Elizabeth catches scarlet fever, who passes it on to her mother. Although she heals, Caroline dies. (pg 32)

Frankenstein goes to college

3

Page 34 . Victor leaves his family and goes to Ingolstadt College.

Relationship with profesor

4

Victor's profesor takes him under his wing and starts showing him the in and outs of chemistry. Victor grows a passion for what he's learning. (58)

Building the monster

4

Victor gathers the parts for his monster. He begins building it. Through this process he becomes very timid and scared of unusual things. He feels almost guilty when see people. (54)

The monster is created

5

Victor creates the monster and it comes to life. Instantly, he is terrified by it and runs away, leaving it alone.(pg 60)

Meets Henry Clerval

5

While Victor is in the town, he meets Henry Clerval, an old family friend. He has a breakdown and Clerval feels he must help him. (64)

Victor's character development

5

Victor starts off as a carefree child. He loves his childhood and gets curious. His curiosity becomes obsession and he leaves his family. His obsessive personality takes control of him and he becomes insane. After creating the monster, he feels scared. Then he grows sad. (63)

Victor's Character Development

5

Victor is a curious child. He knows that he loves science and life. He gets very curious.

Victor's Return to Geneva

6

" 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." (Page 67)

Victor's Experience in Nature

6

"When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy"(p68).

William is Murdered

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

Victor sees his creature

7

"...its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy demon to whom I had given life." pg.73

Victor feels responsible for William and Justine's death

8

"I beheld those I loved spent vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts." (pg. 85)

Justine is Executed

8

"I wish that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery." (pg. 84)

Victor thinks about killing himself

9

"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" (Page 86).

Victor and his family go to Belrive

9

"It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my sphemeral, because human sorrows", (page 89-90).

Victor Follows The Monster Into the Mountains

10

" As he said this he led the way across the ice: I followed." Pg 97

Meets The Monster

10

"I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretched whom I had created." Pg 94

Story is Started

11

"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. " pg.98

Chapter 11: Monster Meets the Family

11

"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

The monster expresses emotion to Victor

12

"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers..."

The monster explains his journey to Frankenstein

12

"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers..." (pg.116)

The creature learns to speak properly

13

Pg. 113 "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."

Safie arrives at the cottage

13

Pg. 111 "It was a lady on horseback, accompanied by a country-man as a guide... [she] responded only by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix."

The monster's feelings with Safie's backstory

14

"The government of France was greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliver. The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agetha were thrown into prison." (pg.120)
"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)

Victor's Character Development

14

Victor is very stressed about what all is going on. He knows that he is in the wrong and feels tortured. He is depressed and confused.

The monster reads Henry's Books

15

The monster reads Henry's Books which causes the monster to question his existence. He finds the books about his existence. (pg127).

Monster Meets William

16

When the monster finds out he met William, and he is related to his creator, he kills him. He keeps his necklace because he thinks it is beautiful. (pg 134)

Monster confronts Frankenstein

17

The monster tells Frankenstein that he will either create him a mate or he will destroy him. Frankenstein agrees. (pg140)

Victor travels

18

Victor studies on how to create the monster's mate. He promises his father upon his traveling return, he will mary Elizabeth. (pg149)

Victor is uncertain about the monster

19

Victor continues to make the monster, but feels this whole thing is torture. He knows it is wrong. (pg155)

Victor kills new creation

20

The monster has been following Victor. When Victor sees him, he kills his new creation infront of the monster. (pg166)

Victor's Character Development

20

Victor is confused about what he should do. He knows the monster is after him, but does not want to create another one. He is depressed and terrified.

Elizabeth Dies

21

The monster tells Victor to prepare himself because he is going to kill Elizabeth. Victor knows the monster will come so he stays outside hoping to intercept the monster before he gets to Elizabeth, but in doing so he gives the monster an easy way to get in through the window during Victors absence.
"Suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream." pg196

Victor is in Prison

22

"I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison"(169) The quote shows that Victor is physically isolated from civilization as he is imprisoned for Henry's murder. Henry is also in a very melancholic state of mind making him feel even more alone in his cell.

Monstrosity

23

"How can I describe my sensations on beholding it? I feel yet parched with horror, nor can I reflect on that terrible moment without shuddering and agony." (169) This quote explains when Victor expresses his feelings of terror and anguish when Henry's dead body is presented to him; he was killed by the creature. add

Victor's Character Development

24

Victor is a mess. He lost many of his loved ones. He feels defeated and lonely. He knows that everything was his fault. He is now depressed.

Victor is blamed and imprisoned for Henry Clerval's death.

24

"But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon." Pg. 169

This quote paints the picture of Victor waking up, jailed for the murder of Henry Clerval, and although he did not commit the crime, he knew that he would have to be imprisoned.

Letters

25

"We passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Saleve, the pleasant banks of Montalegre, and at a distance surmounting all, the beautiful Mount Blanc and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her..." This quote shows the attachment Victor still holds to nature and the love that he has dedicated to his new wife.