Frankenstein Letters 1-4, Chapters 1-5
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- Letters 1-4
- Chapter 1
- Thank you! This is not my child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. She became an orphan and a beggar since her mother died during child birth, and her father is nowhere to be found. If you want you can take her since you are so found of her!
- What a beautiful child!
- Chapter 2
- The explorer Robert Walton starts the story with the various letters to his sister, Margaret Saville. During his trip to the North Pole to reach Atlantic Ocean, he mistakenly discovers a man dying on a glacier. After taking the man named Victor Frankenstein, Walton gets acknowledged about Victor's lifestory. Starting from his childhood, Victor begins to retell his tale.
- Chapter 3 (1)
- Here, Victor Frankenstein begins his narration. On a trip to Italy, when Victor is about five years old, his mother, Caroline, recognizes a beautiful blonde girl Elizabeth. She is the orphaned daughter of a Milanese nobleman and German woman. As the Italian family can barely afford to feed her, Caroline with Victor's father, Alphonse, decides to adopt her and brings her to Geneva, their home country.
- Chapter 3 (2)
- These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge.
- You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names.
- In this chapter, relationship of Elizabeth and Victor strengthens. Victor's friendship with his schoolmate Henry Clerval flourishes as well. As Victor becomes a big fan of the natural world's mysteries, he studies old-fashioned findings of various alchemists in natural philosophy. Also, Victor recognises the distructive power of nature when, during a rainy storm, a tree near his house is destroyed by lightning.
- Chapters 4-5
- At the age of 17, Victor decides to leave his family and attend the university at Ingolstadt. Before departure, his mother dies due to scarlet fever that she caught from Elizabeth, during nursing her back to health. On her deathbed, she asks Elizabeth and Victor to marry.
- My children, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
- Several weeks later, Victor arrives in Ingolstadt. There he meets with two professors: Mr. Krempe, a professor of natural philosophy, and Mr. Waldman, a chemistry professor. Mr. Krempe insists Victor that the studies of alchemists are worthless, while Mr. Waldman appreciates his efforts and pursues him to continue his studies in science.
- During his studies, Victor neglects his social life and his family in Geneva and makes as rapid progress. Victor also starts to study anatomy and how human body falls apart in order to discover the mystery of the creation of life. Privately, he decides to begin his construction of an animate creature. After a month of tireless work, ignoring family, friends, studies, and social life, he completes his creation. However, he is horrified by by its awful appearance, while the creature abandons the labaratory. Rushing to the next room, Victor tries to sleep, but he is troubled by nightmares about Elizabeth and his mother's corpse. At next morning , during walk in the town of Ingolstadt, he mistakenly rushes into Henry Clerval. Due to studying non-stop, Victor catches a terrible fever, and Henry Clerval nurses him and gives him a letter from Elizabeth.
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