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Elizabeth is found as an orphan. She is taken into Victors family.
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Caroline meets victor's dad at his friends funeral. Caroline marries Victor's dad. Page 32
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A tree is struck by lightning. Frankenstein sees this and becomes curious about sciences. Page 40
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Victors brother is born. He is his 7 years younger than Victor.
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Professors convince him to stop the practice of alchemy and start practicing chemistry. Pages 42-43
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She tells frankienstien Elizabeth is his to protect.
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Victor enjoys his lectures and finds a friend. He improves in his studies. Page 49
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He becomes curious about how the body works. Starts wondering how life is created. page 50
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He creates the monster in a poor mental state at around one in the morning. He runs and the monster is left to fend for himself. page 56
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Henry sees that Frankenstein is in a poor state. He takes him in. page 57
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Over the course of these chapters, Victor slowly becomes obsessed with reanimating a corpse. Henry finds him and takes him in.
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“Dear, dear Elizabeth!” I exclaimed, when I had read her letter: “I will write instantly and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel.” I wrote, and this exertion greatly fatigued me; but my convalescence had commenced, and proceeded regularly. In another fortnight I was able to leave my chamber." page 65
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"It was about five in the morning when I entered my father’s house. I told the servants not to disturb the family, and went into the library to attend their usual hour of rising." page 74-75
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"I passed a night of unmingled wretchedness. In the morning I went to the court; my lips and throat were parched. I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit. The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned." page 81-82
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"Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual. I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate. The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me." page 89
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“Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.”" page 95
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"The family, after having been thus occupied for a short time, extinguished their lights and retired, as I conjectured, to rest.” page 104
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“They were not entirely happy. The young man and his companion often went apart and appeared to weep. I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched." Page 105
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“While I improved in speech, I also learned the science of letters as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field for wonder and delight." page 111
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"Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world. She fell, however, into good hands. The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover.”
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Victor comes home, where someone is murdered. He thinks it is likely the monster, but lets someone else take the punishment of death. the monster finds Victor and Victor listens to the monsters tale of woe. He learns about how the monster gained intelligence.
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After the monster decides to converse with the elder man in the cottage, the other members of the family see him and cast him out. page 129
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After being shot for saving a girl from drowning, the monster is shot for his efforts. He then becomes enraged upon finding Henry, the relative of Victor and kills him. Page 136
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After the monster explains his sad, murderous tale, he asks for a partner. Victor agrees on the circumstances that he leaves to North America. The monster says he will. 139
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Victor has been in love with Elizabeth for a long time, and in hopes of Victor keeping up with society, his dad recommends that they will get married. Page 144
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After traveling through many different places, Victor settles down on a small island. He starts his work on the Mate there in isolation.page 156
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After working hard on the monsters mate, the monster shows up looking in his window. Victor destroys his work, and the monster flies into a rage. page 160
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During these chapters, Victor pities the monster and in hopes to drive him away, he starts creating a partner. However, when he is in the middle of creating the creatures mate, he sees the creature and destroys his work. The creature becomes enraged and says he will kill Victors love.
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“For that matter,” replied the old woman, “if you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead, for I fancy it will go hard with you! However, that’s none of my business; I am sent to nurse you and get you well; I do my duty with a safe conscience; it were well if everybody did the same.” page 170
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“None on earth. I love Elizabeth and look forward to our union with delight. Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin.” page 181
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"Everywhere I turn I see the same figure — her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier. Could I behold this and live? " page 186
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"Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!"- Page 195
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Victor learns from his mistakes and warns others to not do the same. The monster visits Victor after he dies, and tells Walton he is sorry for his actions.
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“I thank you, Walton,” he said, “for your kind intentions towards so miserable a wretch; but when you speak of new ties and fresh affections, think you that any can replace those who are gone? Can any man be to me as Clerval was, or any woman another Elizabeth?"