Frankenstein - Cao

Elizabeth is adopted

1 CE

The Frankensteins adopt Elizabeth when they visited a peasant family in Italy. They did this because she gave them happiness and wanted to give Victor a companion. (pg 35)

Victor's dad takes care of Caroline and marries her

1 CE

Caroline's father, Beaufort, was a close friend of Victor's father, and when Beaufort passes away, Victor's dad takes care of Caroline. Two years later, they became closer and married. (pg 32).

Chapters

Period: 1 CE to 24

Victor starts studying natural philosophy

2

Victor started to obsess with natural philosophy due to his personality. He reads works by Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, all of which Victor's father told him were useless.

Victor sees a tree get struck by lightning

2

Victor sees lightning strike a tree, which inspires him to start studying electricity and galvanism. (pg 40)

Victor's mom dies

3

Victor's mom dies, setting the foundation for his bad mood in the future. (pg 43)

Victor goes to Ingolstadt

3

Victor goes to Ingolstadt and meets a few professors that he becomes friends with and talks about his studies with them. (pg 48)

Victor loses touch with his family and studies a lot

4

Victor became so absorbed in his studies that he decides to isolate himself from the rest of the world to pursue his interests. (pg 50)

Victor became obsessed with giving life to a nonliving thing

4

Victor wanted the new creation to become a new species that would praise him as their new creator and that he would gain a lot of power. (pg 52)

Victor brings the monster to life

5

Victor was felt very accomplished about the creation for about a second, but soon after, he became very scared about the creation and ran away. (pg 57)

Victor becomes sick

5

After he created the monster, Victor became very sick because he exhausted himself in the process of making the monster, which made him very weak. (pg 60)

Character Development 1

5

Victor had a very happy childhood with a very supportive family. At this point, he was still experimenting with many new topics. When he goes to college, he tries to do something new by creating a monster. He spends a lot of time building the monster, showing his determination.

Frankenstein's misfortune starts

6

"Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the begining of my misfortunes...." pg 65

Victors Teacher Talks to Clerval and Frankenstein

6

"'Why, M. Clerval, I assure you he has outstripped us all...' continued he, observing my face expressing suffering." (Pg. 66)

Victor sees the monster in the forest from a distance

7

"A flash of lighting illuminated the object and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect..." (pg.73)

Justine accused of murdering William

7

"Indeed, who would credit that Justine Moritz, who so aimable and fond of all the family, could suddenly become capable of so frightful, so appalling a crime?" (pg.76)

Justine is on trial

8

"A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine."(pg 78)

Justine is DEAD

8

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

Victor feels guilty for Justine's death

9

... I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.'' (pg.86)

Victor retreats to nature

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 ephemeral, because human, sorrows." (pg.89)

Victor loves nature

10

"These sublime and magnificent scenes of feeling, and afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving." Page 92

The monster begins to tell his tale

10

"But I consented to listen; and, seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale." Page 97

The Monster finds the cottage and is in awe

11

"It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before." page 103

He found the hut

11

"But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry" pg. 101

The creature learns to speak

12

"These thoughts exhilarated me and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquiring the art of language." (Pg.109)

The creature becomes self-aware of his own emotions

12

"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past were blotted with memory, the present was tranquil, and the future guided by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy." (Pg.110)

Safie comes to the village and doesn't speak their language

13

"The lady was dressed in a dark suit and covered with a thick black veil. Agitha asked a question, to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix" (pg. 111)

Monster perfectly understands language and communication

13

"The stranger learned about 20 words at the first lesson; most of them, indeed, were those which I had before understood, but I profited by the others." (pg.112)

The unjust accusation of Safie's father

14

"'The father of Safie had been cause of their ruin. He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government." (Pg. 117)

The demise of Felix

14

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

Character Development 2

14

Victor becomes very guilty over time because he knows that he is the cause of two deaths of people that he loved. He knows that the monster killed William and not Justine, but he still doesn't confess to creating the monster due to his own fears. This shows that he is growing more and more selfish and sad about the results of creating his monster.

The Monster finds books in a bag on the ground

15

These books gave the monster new perspectives on the world around him and he was able to relate to the stories. (pg 123)

The monster attempts to befriend De Lacey

15

The monster thinks that he will be able to become friends with De Lacey because he is blind, but instead Felix and his family come back and attack the monster. (pg 129)

The monster saves a girl from a river

16

The monster saves a girl from drowning in a river, which leads to the man with the girl shooting at the monster. This turns the monster evil. (pg 135)

The monster murders William

16

This was the first time that the monster was able to get revenge on Victor and made Victor hate the monster even more. (pg 136)

The monster tells Victor to create a female monster for him

17

The monster tells Victor that the only way that he will be happy and leave humans alone would be to create a companion for the monster. (pg 139)

Victor agrees to create the monster

17

The monster convinces Victor that he will leave Europe and go to South America to live in isolation with his companion, to which Victor agrees to create a female monster. (pg 141)

Victor assures his dad that he will marry Elizabeth

18

His father is worried that Victor doesn't love Elizabeth so much that he wants to marry her, but he tells his father that he plans on marrying Elizabeth, but has to go to London first. (pg 144)

Victor and Clerval start their journey to London

18

Clerval accompanied Victor to London to begin his studies and they go through countries such as France on their way. (pg 147)

Victor and Clerval travel through England and Scotland

19

They stay in London for a few months before Victor gets an invitation to go to Scotland and see the nature there. They go in Oxford for some time and pass many other regions before arriving. (pg 152)

Victor goes to the Orkneys

19

Victor tells Clerval to stay behind in Scotland while Victor goes somewhere else. Victor goes to the Orkneys and sets up his laboratory there. (pg 156)

Victor destroys the female monster

20

Victor starts to think about the consequences that a female monster can have and decided that there were too many risks, leading to him destroying his next creation. The monster then threatens to see him on his wedding night. (pg 161)

Victor is accused of murder

20

Victor dumps the remains of the unfinished monster into the ocean, but when he comes back to land, the locals find a body and accuse him. (pg 166)

Character Development 3

20

Victor starts to think about the things that he can do to protect humans from the monster after he heard the monster's stories. This shows that he is thinking more clearly and that he is being more careful about his decisions. As a result, he destroys his second project while it was in progress and believes that this is the best decision to save humankind.

Victor was found guilty for Clerval's death

21

"Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agonizing than the strange chances that have lately occurred... so unaccountable a manner and paced, as it were, by some fiend across your path."
(Pg. 171)

Victor decides to fight back against the monster

22

"Well be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end." (pg 179)

The Monster Murders Elizabeth

23

"The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips." Page 186

Victor is chasing the monster

24

"As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support." (pg 195)

The monster disappears from human society

24

"Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold" (pg 211)

Character Development 4

24

Victor starts to become more and more selfless and devotes himself to try and destroy the monster due to personal trauma. He spends the rest of his life chasing the monster in hope of limiting the number of interactions between the monster and humans. He also warns Walton about being too ambitious and tries to help others from falling into the same trap that he fell into.