Plot Summary Frankenstein

The story grows from this inception to the somewhat vague description of Victor 's creation. Shelley, through Victor, through Walton, explains the manner in which Victor prowled graveyards and such to compile body parts, much like Shelley used disjointed segments of individual observations to compile her story. Then, she delves into a birth. The animation of his project scares Victor so much, that he immediately abandons the creation, only to later see the monster in his room, reaching for Victor with a grin. Victor ‘escapes, ' abandons his child again. The lack of parenting and guidance is remarkable, no doubt inspired by Mary 's own situation at the time. Then, as Victor wanders aimlessly, he encounters his childhood best friend, Clerval. Clerval is one of the truly honest characters in the book, though he also has problems with his father. He is Victor 's true friend, one who will love him regardless, though Victor is monstrous enough to miss that fact, and tells Clerval nothing of his creation.

The characters in this chapter are Victors mom, Elizabeth, the monster, Victor and his friend Henry.

The room was filled with a deep, deafening unbroken silence for many minutes after, nobody moved, or even dared to utter a single noise. We heard the crashing noise of many supports and other structures falling from their support and as I moved towards the entrance, trying to open the door, it wouldn’t move an inch, clearly having been blocked by a pillar of wood and stone.

The monster kills William Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, and Henry Clerval before Victor Frankenstein’s darkest emotions are drawn out. With the loss of Henry Clerval, Victor’s closest friend, Victor is finally pushed to the brink of insanity and starts plotting his own revenge. Of course, the monster ends up murdering Elizabeth as well and while that death puts the monster’s quest for revenge at ease, it only intensifies the thirst for revenge that Victor Frankenstein tastes.

The entire story is told through the letters of Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville. Walton’s letters start and end the novel, which sets up the framework for Frankenstein. Walton shares a few similarities with the characters of Victor and the monster. For instance, much like Victor’s character, Walton has an inquisitive nature and he loves to explore. In his first letter he writes, “I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited” (Shelley 16). While Victor has a deep interest in new sciences, Walton has an interest in exploring new places. This curiosity drives both men to take their interests to the limits. Walton’s character also shares some similarities with the

In the novel, a captain of a ship sis writing letters to his sister back in England. He is telling her the story of being trapped on a dangerous mission on which they got stuck because of ice that they could not pass. The captain, Robert Walton, meets Victor Frankenstein, who had been traveling on the ice on a sled led by dogs. Walton took Victor onto the ship to get help, and this is when Victor told him the story of his monster. Victor told him that he had spent months creating a feature out of old body parts, and eventually brought him to life. He was so horrified by this monster that he ran away from it, and prepared to return to Geneva. However, he received a letter saying that his brother had been murdered. On his way home, he spots his monster and believes that it was the monster that killed his brother. However, another girl was killed for being convicted as the murderer. The monster admitted to the murder, and asked that Victor make him another monster to be

Upon full comprehension of “the miserable monster whom I had created (pg. 52)” Victor falls ill. He recovers, yet this is the mere beginning of the horrors awaiting Victor. Victor accounts “my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me (pg. 69)”; the first of Victor’s loved ones to fall victim to the murderous rampage of the monster is William—Victor’s brother. Yet, through this murder the monster has also indirectly killed another, Justine.

At this point Victor is responsible for two deaths and must keep this all to himself. By suffering through the guilt and the illness it is clear that his decisions that were made in order to deepen his knowledge of the scientific world are becoming dangerous to himself and the people close to him.

Chapter 1 begins the story of Victor Frankenstein, the man whom Robert Walton rescued from the ice. From this point forward until the end of the novel, he becomes the primary narrator of the story. He begins his tale at the very beginning of his life, telling about the marriage of his parents, Alphonse and Caroline Frankenstein.

The momentum forces me to stumble down. I fall on my back, the air knocked out of me. I lay for a moment, attempting to catch my breathe. As I learn to breath again, a heavy thing falls on me. My vision is blocked as a handful of black hair lands on my face. Next to my ear is a set of lips.

Victor goes to Ingolstadt to study philosophy and chemistry, but then wants to find the after life and bring it back. He builds a creature out of dead people's body parts and brings the creature to life. After he doesn't like the look of the monster, he runs into the streets and finds Henry. Henry looks after Victor after he falls ill. After a while, he gets better and is going home when his dad sends a letter about his brother being murdered. Victor sees a glimpse of the monster and is pretty sure that the monster killed his brother. Justine Moritz is tried and found guilty for the murder of William and is executed. Victor goes to the mountains for a vacation and sees the monster. The monster says he did kill William. Monster wants a soul

Robert and Victor both had an influential sister figure in their younger lives. Robert has his sister Margarite that cares for him dearly. He is so attached to her gentle ways and he recognizes how much of himself has been influenced by her. “A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character..” (Shelley 5 to 6)  Robert states that his best years were spent with her and that she has left a very strong impression on him. Victor grew up with Elizabeth, a little girl that his parents adopted. Elizabeth and Victor were very close when they were younger and they became closer as they grew up together. “No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me- my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.” (Shelley 21) In this line it is clearly presented that Victor is very attached to Elizabeth, just as Robert is very attached to his sister. These points prove that Robert is a representation of Victor’s younger self because he longs for glory like Victor did.  With this he has a love for learning and had a very influential sister figure in his childhood just like Victor. Aside from Robert, the Creature is another character that represents

At first reading Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein appears to be part of the gothic or horror genre, but further examination of this novel reveals many concepts and perspectives that are related to other genres of English literature. Along with possessing various conceptual ideas this novel brilliantly highlights the characteristics of men, which many authors have credited Mary Shelley’s understanding of the opposite gender as exceptional. Throughout this novel there can be identified three male characters that are used to tell the tale by Mary Shelley. These three characters are Captain Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein and the monster. However, these characters portray different perspectives, but they all have various similarities and

His boat gets stuck hundreds of miles from land in sheets of ice. He decides to write a letter to his sister back in England and he talks about how he wants a male friend to keep him company on the boat. Walton then runs into Victor, a very strange man to say the least. Victor talks about his life to Walton and explains about this creature he made out of human corpses. Back in Geneva, Victor’s hometown, his brother is murdered. The house servant, Justine, is accused of the murder of William. Victor realizes the monster he made is the murderer and Justine is in fact innocent. Victor decides to go on a trip to the Swiss Alps to sleep and relax. Victor ends up running into the monster. The monster tells him a sad story about how he was alienated from the world and how he killed the boy out of revenge. The monster is mad that he was made alone and has no friends. He talks about how he has a miserable life. The monster says “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on” (Shelley 67). He explains a story about how a family of cottagers gave him hope that he would soon find compassion. They ended up deserting him and driving him away and this was his last chance to connect with society. “I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same

     Frankenstein, an epistolary novel by Mary Shelley, deals with epistemology, is divided into three volumes, each taking place at a distinct time. Volume I highlights the correspondence in letters between Robert Walton, an Arctic seafarer, and his sister, Margaret Saville. Walton's letters to Margaret basically explain his expedition at sea and introduce Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist of the novel. Volume II is essentially Frankenstein's narrative, told in his point of view, with much action, death, and many more characters. There are a few chapters within this volume in which the monster narrates his adventures while alone. Volume III displays Victor's