Frankenstein- Peralta

Ch. 1: Elizabeth is adopted

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Elizabeth is adopted by the Frankensteins while living in Italy. She is then introduced to Victor who automatically likes her. Page 33-34

Ch. 1: Victor's grandpa dies

1 CE

Victor's grandpa, his mom's dad, dies. This causes Victor's dad to take care and later marry Caroline. Pg. 32

Frankenstein

Period: 1 CE to 24

Ch. 2: Victor discovers the works of Agrippa

2

Victor discovers the works of Cornelius Agrippa. He shows his dad and his dad disapproves. This will motivate him to further study alchemy. pg 38

Ch 2: Lightning Storm

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Victor witnesses a lightning storm. He sees a lightning bolt strike a tree and the tree falls down cleanly. pg 40

Ch. 3: Victor's mother dies

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First Elizabeth falls ill with scarlet fever. His mother nurses her back to health but is infected with it- she dies.pg 42

Ch. 3: Victor leaves for University

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He is goes to study at the University of Ingolstadt. Only weeks after his mother passed away. He's a star pupil of chemistry and natural philosophy.

Ch. 4: Victor discovers how to re-animate the dead

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Victor learns that lightning can re-animate the dead. He plans on making creating a person and bring it back to life.

Ch. 4: Victor grave digs

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Victor plans to make a human out of human parts. He begins to rob graves and take human parts and re-animate it.

Ch. 5: Victor creates the monster

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Victor brings the monster to life. He regrets it and tries to hide from it.

Ch. 5: Clerval goes to Ingolstadt

5

Clerval, Victor's friend, goes to study at Ingolstadt. Victor falls ill and Clreval nurses him back to health.

Development

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Frankenstein meets Clerval in Ingolstadt. Clerval is extremely worried about Frankenstein. (ch 58)

Ch. 6: Victor's Sickness

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

Ch. 7: Victor sees the monster

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

Ch. 8: Justine's Trial

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

Ch. 9: Regret for the Death of Justine

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

Ch. 10: The Monster's Tale

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

Ch. 11: The Monster Finds the Cottage

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

Ch. 12: The Monster Learns

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"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)

Ch. 13: The Monster Changes

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"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)

Ch. 14: Felix's Fall

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)

Victor's Develpment

14

Victor changes immensely as a character, he becomes less passionate, fearful, and angry. He is no longer the young hopeful man he used to be, he has developed into something darker.

Ch. 15: The Monster Reads

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The monster finds the books Paradise Lost, Sorrows of Werter, and Plutarch's Lives, and begins to read them. He feels pain and enjoyment while reading them, and begins to explore human emotion.

Ch. 16: The Monster and the Girl

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After being beaten by the cottagers he adored, the monster goes on a journey away from the village and encounters a young girl. The girl is drowning, and he saves her, but is then shot. The monster no longer has faith in humans.

Ch. 17: The Monster's Desire

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The monster demands that Frankenstein make him a female monster that he can spend his life with, and promises that he will remove himself from society and go to South America. Frankenstein decides he will follow through with this demand because of the monsters suffering.

Ch. 18: Victor's Leaving

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In accordance to the monsters request Frankenstein leaves Geneva to study in England. He promises his father that he will marry Elizabeth after his return.

Ch. 19: Victor's Worries

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Frankenstein leaves Clerval to continue his work in Scotland, and to begin creating the second monster. He realizes the horror he is creating, and is fearful of what would occur after the monster is created.

Ch. 20: Victor's Repentance

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Frankenstein decides to destroy his second creature, and the monster confronts him. The monster is extremely upset and tells victor he will be with him on his wedding day. The monster is now determined to prevent any good in Frankenstein's life.

Frankenstein's Development

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Frankenstein becomes much more fearful, anxious, and cynical as a result of his monsters threats. He is concerned for his future, and for the future of society due to the creature being loose.

Ch. 21: Clerval's Death and Victor's Accusation

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'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)

Ch. 22: Victor's Rehabilitation into Society

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"He wished me to seek amusement in society. I abhorred the face of man. Oh, not abhorred! They were my brethren my fellow beings, and I felt attracted even to the most repulsive among them." (pg 176)

Ch. 23: Elizabeth's Murder

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

Ch. 24: Victor Pursues the Monster out of Vengeance

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"I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed with sternght and composure; it molded my feelings and allowedme to be calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delierium or death would have been my portion" (pg. 192)

Development of Victor

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Victor is determined to kill the monster that has ruined his life. The monster has killed everything important to him, and he has become even more vengeful, and malicious.

Letter: Victor's Death

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"I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being..." (pg. 211)