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Chapter 1
A father from a distinguished family marries the daughter of his deceased friend. Despite the age gap, the two loved one another and doted on their son, Victor. When he was five, they adopted Elizabeth, a beautiful and angelic girl who had been raised by a peasant family after her mother, wife of a nobleman, died in childbirth, and it became clear that her father would not return for her. As the children grow up together in Switzerland, Victor quickly grows to love Elizabeth. -
Chapter 2
When Victor is 7, his parents have a second son. As a school-boy filled with curiosity about the physical world, Victor made one close friend, Henry Clerval. Victor's goal in life is to banish disease, while Clerval seeks to become a famous, adventurous benefactor to mankind. After seeing an oak tree blasted by lightning, Victor becomes intrigued by a teacher's explanation of galvanism. -
Chapter 3
When Victor is seventeen, Elizabeth catches Scarlet Fever yet recovers with the help of Victor's mother, who also fails ill and dies. Victor goes to University in Ingolstadt. Victor studies philosophy and is informed by his teacher that he has been studying foolish and false information. Victor alters his studies and meets Walman, a chemistry professor, who convinces Victor to pursue science. -
Letter 4: To Mrs. Saville, England
Captain Walton writes that while the ship was locked in by ice, he and his men observed a gigantic man pass northward on a dog-drawn sledge. A few hours later the ice broke and the sailors retrieved a stranger from a floating ice fragment. The stranger explains that he is pursing a "demon". As Walton and the stranger become friends over the next couple of weeks, the stranger offers to tell the tale of his own misfortunes in hopes that Walton would avoid the same pitfalls. -
Chapter 4
During the course of his anatomy studies, Victor examines many dead bodies from charnel-houses and discovered hot to bring dead matter to life. For month he is so obsessed with working on his "creation" that he failed to write or visit his family. -
Letter 1: To Mrs. Saville, England
Walton reports that he has arrived in St. Petersburgh (Russia) and is confident that he will succeed in finding a more direct route to the North Pole. -
Letter 2: To Mrs. Saville, England
Three months pass and Captain Robert Walton write that he has successfuly hired a ship and he is gathering sailors for the voyage, but he regrets that he has no friends with which to confide and share the voyage with. -
Letter 3: To Mrs. Saville, England
Captain Walton writes his sister again and says that they are well on their way and that he will do his best to be careful on his voyage. -
Victor Frankenstein's Story
The bulk of the novel is the stranger's story, recorded by Captain Walton. It begins with Chapter 1. -
Chapter 6
As Henry is nursing Victory back to health and gives Victor a letter from Elizabeth with news about his family; Ernest is now 16 and planning to enter the foreign service, William has many girlfriends and Justine has grown into a pretty, clever and gentle. After several more months of recuperation, during which Victor shows Clerval around the university. Victor begins study of Oriental languages with Henry while joyously awaiting to return home to Geneva. -
Chapter 8
Although innocent, Justine confessed in order to obtain absolution from the priest, and was hanged despite the protestations of Victor and Elizabeth. Victor feels guilty for the deaths of two innocent people, William and Justine. -
Chapter 7
A letter from Victor’s father. His father explains hat his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. On his way home Victor catches a glimpse of the Monster in a fl ash of lightning and Victor realises immediately that Williams murder was the work of the monster. Returning home after an absence of six years, Victor discovers that Justin Moritz is accused of the crime because a locket with a picture of Victor's mother -- that William begged her to wear -- had been found in her pocket. -
Chapter 10
Victor Frankenstein seeks solace in the valley. He finds peace in all of the beautiful landscape and forgets his woes.Victor hopes to traverse to the summit of Montanvert. Once there he spies the creature and Frankenstein springs upon him ineffectually in an attempt to "estinguish the spark" he had created. The creature promises to leave Victor and his family alone if Frankenstein agreed to do what the Creature asked. Victor agrees to listen and the Creature's story unfolds. -
Chapter 12
The creature watches the cottagers as they work, eat and communicate. He notices that the cottagers are upset since they are poor and do not have a lot of food for themselves. Considering the creature has been eating their food, he feels a sense of guilt and helps the family by leaving them firewood every night. By watching them unobserved, he learns to speak. -
Chapter 14
The creature discovers that the family had lost their fortune because of Safie's Turkish father, who was accused erroneously of a crime, and sentenced to death in Paris. Safie meets Felix while visiting her father in prison and they soon fall in love. Felix later decides to help Safie's father escape from prison but fails and they are exiled from France without their money. Safie's father tried to force his dauther to return with him, but she escapes with Felix to Germany.
