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1 CE
Elizabeth is adopted
Elizabeth is adopted by the Frankensteins in Italy. She was a "gift" to Victor, but she was only just an infant. (pg.33-34) -
1 CE
Victor's Backstory
He was born in Naples. He was an only child for several years. (pg 33) -
1 CE
Victor's progression
Victor had thus grown up with his adopted sister and has had a claim on her. He begins to love Elizabeth and science, but his ambition was very risky. (pg 1-57) -
1 CE
Letters
1.)Robert Walton is north of London. He is trying to buy a ship. (pg 17)
2.)He has hired a ship He is telling of his ambition. (pg 18-19)
3.) He wrote to his sister and is saying that he is safe. He really expresses that he will not try to get into any danger. (pg 22)
4.) The boat is stranded on the ice. The sailors saw a man on the ice with sled dogs. (pg 24) -
Period: 1 CE to 24
Chapters
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2
Victor becomes interested in electricity from a tree struck by lightning
Victor began to study the laws of electricity. He started to study theories of electricity. (pg 40) -
2
Henry Clerval is introduced
He is the son of a merchant from Geneva. He loved hardship. (pg 37) -
3
Death of Mrs.Frankenstein
Victor's mother contracts the sickness and sadly dies. She got the sickness from Elizabeth. (pg 43) -
3
Elizabeth got sick
She obtained the scarlet fever. She then passed on the scarlet fever to Victor's mother.( pg 42) -
4
Frankenstein Ambition
Frankenstein discusses his plans for his new sense of ambition.( pg 50) -
4
Frankenstein Obsession
He goes to every lecture in his college. He wants to create life from death. (pg 49) -
5
Victor's Creation
He creates the monster. He is horrified by it and goes to bed. (pg 56) -
5
Creature Scare
Victor goes to bed after being horrified by the monster's appearance. In the middle of the night, Victor wakes to find the monster standing over him with a horrific smile, so Victor runs away in the forest. (pg 57) -
6
Chapter 6: Victors Teacher Talks to Clerval and Frankenstein
"'Why, M. Clerval, I assure you he has outstripped us all...' continued he, observing my face expressing suffering." (Pg. 66) -
7
Justine accused of murdering William
"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) -
8
Justine is on trial
"A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine."(pg 78)
Justine is DEAD
"I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow up on the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts."(pg 85) -
9
Victor retreats to nature
" 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) -
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Victor loves nature
"These sublime and magnificent scenes of feeling, and afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving." Page 92 -
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Chapter 11
The Monster finds the cottage and is in awe "It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before." page 103 -
12
Chapter 12: The creature learns to speak
"These thoughts exhilarated me and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquiring the art of language." (Pg.109) -
13
Chapter 13
1) Safie comes to the village and doesn't speak their language Quote: "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) 2)Monster perfectly understands language and communication -
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Chapter 14: The unjust accusation of Safie's father
"'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) -
15
Creature discovers cottage pg 123
The creature explains it as calm and kind. He also learned a lot from the people inside it. -
16
Creature kills William pg 136
The creature was speaking to will. The creature found out he was a Frankenstein and killed him. -
17
The creature wants a mate pg 140
Victor has second thoughts on creating this monster, but is persuaded. -
18
Victor arranges to meet with his father pg 143
He goes to England for study. He meets up with his father in the process. -
19
Victor works on the mate. pg 157
He works on the monster, but is very uneasy about his decision. -
20
Victor doesn't want to continue creating the monster pg 159
He doesn't want the new monster to have free will. He believes the new monster will be dangerous. -
21
Victor knows the monster will be with him on his wedding night
"On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death." pg. 167 -
22
The Monster murders Elizabeth
"The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips." Page 186 -
23
Rain on Victor and Elizabeth's Wedding Day PAGE 188
"The rain had seized for a moment, and I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours before; they had been observed by Elizabeth." -
24
The monster disappears from human society
"Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold" (pg 211)