Frankstein Key Plot Points
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- The scene opens with Robert Walton heading to the North Pole, when he becomes stuck between icebergs.
- Robert Walton then looks into the distance noticing a large figure and a smaller more enervated looking man chasing said figure.
- Robert Walton then takes Victor in and nurses him back to health. Then Victor tells his life story.
- On a stormy November night, Victor successfully creates his monster.
- But Victor is so disgusted by his own creation that he flees the laboratory hoping the monster will go away on its own.
- Victor is awoken by his creation in the middle of the night, and escapes his chamber.
- As Victor feels conflicted about what he has brought into this world, he is found by is friend Henry Clerval.
- Henry and Victor decide to study languages at the university and go on a hiking trip. Which causes Victor to forget about the creation of his monster.
- When Henry and Victor return back to Ingolstadt they discover terrible news. Victor's younger brother, William, has been murdered.
- Just as Victor returns to Geneva, Justine Moritez, the family servant, was convicted for the murder of William, and hanged.
- Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcley leaving her the sea-room in which she floated. (Frankenstein 14)
- Victor decides to get a change of scenery. As Victor travels further into the Alps he realises that he is being followed by the monster. The monster convinces Victor to listen to what he has gone through.
- It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice. Only one dog remained alive; but there was ahuman being within it whom the sailers were persuading to enter the vessel. (Frankenstein 15)
- The first week of the monster's life was pure agony, he was cold and humans would either run from him or attack him. He fled to the countryside, and stayed in the shed of a cottage.
- 'But you are mistaken, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined.' (Frankenstein 23)
- As Victor is creating the monster he becomes disturbed by the thought of bringing another monster alive that could end up harming others as well.
- His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. (Frankenstien 58)
- For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created,I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. (Frankenstein 59)
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- I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster whom I created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate soounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. (Frankenstein 59)
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- I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out. 'My dear Frankenstein,' exclaimed he, 'how glad I am to see you! How fortunate that you should be here at the very moment of my alighting! (Frankenstein 61)
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- (Frankenstein 75)
- Victor goes out seeking revenge over what the monster has done to the people he had loved.
- (Frankenstein 77)
- "Justine assumed an air of cheerfulness, while she with difficulty repressed her bitter tears. She embraced Elizabeth and said in a voice of half-supperessed emotion, 'Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! Live, and be happy, and make others so.' " (Frankenstein 99)
- " 'Devil,' I exclaimed, 'do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!' " (Frankenstein 113)
- " 'Wretch!' I said. 'It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when you are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. Hyprocritical fiend! If he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance. It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is with drawn from your power.' " (Frankenstein 273/274)
- " 'You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in the detail which he gave you of them he could noot up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed his hopes, I not satisfy my own desires. The were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still
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