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Rena-Frankenstein (Chapter summaries (Chp. 1-
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Rena-Frankenstein
Chapter summaries
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Chp-2
Growing up with Elizabeth and Henry as a child. Developing interest in alchemy. Learns about science due to the lightening.
Chp. 3-
Victor leaves for university. Where his interest in alchemy is condemned by his professors. And he eventually decides to pursue studies in science.
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Chp. 5-
Victor completes his creation and was shocked by the monster he created. Fleeing to the hotel, he met his childhood freind Henry who came to study at the university. Victor invites Henry back finding that the monster is gone.
Chp. 6-
Henry takes care of victor during the time he is sick. Elizabeth writes from home showing her concern. Victor decides to return home after introducing Victor to the professors. Victor feels sick even talking to the professors.
Chp. 7-
Victor learns from home that his brother William was murdered and decides to return home immediately. upon return he found the monster lurking in the woods where his brother's body was found. But Justine was accused for the murder.
Chp. 8-
justine confesses in hope of gaining salvation and is executed. Victor is consumed with guilt as he was to afraid to explain that the monster did it.
Chp. 9-
Victor becomes more melancholy with Justine's death. His father takes the family on a trip to cheer them up, Victor feels slightly better because of the beautiful view but soon becomes deprived again.
Chp. 10-
Victor travels to the mountain to get rid of the feelings in his heart. Sees the eternal, pure scene of nature and has an understanding of sublime for a second before he spots a creature lurking in the dark. Victor threatens the monster but failed due to the monster's strength. The monster's narration begins.
Chp. 11-
The monster tells Victor about his fleeing from the apartment, discovery of fire (how it provided warmth but also burnt him, how he understood to add wood to keep it). Then he described how the people he met ran from him on sight, leading him into hiding. He observed a family with a young man, a young woman, and an old man through peeking.
Chp. 12-
The monster studies the family, finding they were unhappy due to poverty caused by him stealing food. He started to gather wood for them at night and stopped stealing food. He learned the language from them and saw his own ugly reflection in water.
Chp. 13-
The family seems unhappy until a young woman arrives and stays in the cottage to learn their language. The monster came to learn along and read Ruins of Empires and wonders if he were a monster as he was deformed and different.
Chp. 14-
The family's history. They were once affluent people in Paris, Sophie was the daughter of a friend of the old man. The young man, Felix fell in love with her on sight while helping her father out of jail. The family was exiled from France and ripped of their wealth. They moved to Germany and Sophie managed to escape from her father with some money and the knowledge of their whereabouts.
Chp. 15-
The monster found a sack of books one night when wondering the woods for food. He read Paradise Lost not knowing that it was a fiction. He paralleled it to his own situation and understands his creator's state of mind. He tries to approach the old man (who is blind) in hope to explain his situation but was spotted by the others and chased away.
Chp. 16-
The monster, in rage, wanted revenge on all human kind and travels to Victor's hometown out of sight of humans. On the way, he spotted a young girl drowning and rescues her but was shot by her company. As he arrives the village, he runs into Victor's brother and strangles him, placing the picture found on Justine. The monster asks Victor to create another monster to accompany him.
Chp. 17-
Victor refuses to create a female monster at first, but feels sympathy and responsibility towards the monster as he was its creator. He urges the monster to not kill again which was agreed. The monster said that he will contact Victor once the female monster is complete.
Chp. 18-
Victor doubts his agreement over creating a female monster, and is troubled most of the time. Victor realizes that he needs to travel England for this creation and decides that he will marry Elizabeth after traveling for two years with Henry.
Chp. 19-
Victor and Henry travel and Victor grows inpatient. Victor departs to go to Scotland alone to create the monster, though often feeling frustrated about it he still keeps to the task.
Chp. 20-
Victor, terrified of what the creation of a female monster may lead to (birth creating a new race etc) destroys the creation, angering the monster who swears to show up at his wedding. Victor discards all the remainings into the ocean and was blown to a town where he was told that he is suspected for murder.
Chp. 21-
Victor, being taken to see the body to see his reaction, finds out in horror that Henry was killed by the monster and falls sick. Victor's father has come to visit him in the cell, and departs home with him once he was proven innocent.
Chp. 22-
Victor and his father return and begin preparing for his wedding. Victor believes that the monster will confront him on the wedding, ending this with one of them dead. Victor grows more nervous as his wedding day came close. Elizabeth and him depart for their cottage as the wedding day came.
Chp. 23-
Victor tells Elizabeth to stay inside while he went on search for the monster. He heard a scream and came back finding Elizabeth dead. Returns home and tells his father the news in sorrow. He tries to tell the magistrate in Geneva about the monster but was not believed. He decides to devote his life to killing the monster.
Chp.24-
With all his family dead, Victor travels north into the cold while following traces left by the monster. He asks Walton to keep on and kill the monster for his vengeance.
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Walton's Narration-
Walton first wanted to continue the quest but is convinced by the crew to return to England. Victor dies before they depart and Walton finds the monster weeping over the body. The monster tells that he regrets his doing of evil and wants to die with his creator's death.
Characters
Victor Frankenstein )
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Became interested in the mysterious nature as a teenager and Grew up reading the works of ancient alchemists. He later learned of electricity through a lightening strike, and learns that the alchemy is out of date
Went to university at ingosdat and studied anatomy and death and decay. (Started building a creature chp. 4) distances himself from the society? Completely focused in his work.
Met Henry after creating the monster and fleing from it. Started missing his family? Became aware of his surroundings again.
He became sick because of the shock of the monster he created and couldn't bare to do anything science related, thus decided to return home.
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Henry Clerval
Victor's childhood friend. Came to study at the university chip. 5 after Victor's monster came to life.
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Justine Moritz
Used to live with the Frankensteins. Returned shortly before Victor. Accused for murdering William. (Innocent?) executed because of it.
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Themes
Nature
Nature is sublime and brings upon spiritual rest and calmness. Victor seeks comfort from nature after the death of William and Justine. (A cure? )
Monster (appearance)
What is a monster? The monster realized that he was a monster after reading Paradise lost as he found that he was different from the rest.
Knowledge
Victor created the Monster that lead to the death of William and Justine, making knowledge dangerous. Careful usage of knowledge and control is important.
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Karma
The monster which was created by Victor thoughtlessly lead to the tragic ending of Victor (caused by Victor's thoughtlessness in creating and the later treatment). The monster suffers from the wrongs that he had done once Victor died.
Born Good, Born Evil?
An ancient Chinese argument--whether creatures are born good and turn evil as they become educated or the other way around. Frankenstein seems to be claiming that creatures are born good from how the monster acted at the cottage. He did not turn to killing until he found that he was completely disscluded.
Plots
Victor became aware of his interest in the power and destructive forces in nature and seeks education. His professor did not support his interest, he thus found a new interest--the science of life. (possibly because his mother's recent death)
The monster came to life but turned out to be terrifying. Shocked by his creation, Victor lost interest in the area and could not do anything related.
Finds out that the monster has killed William and thus brought upon Justine's death. Decides to create a female monster as companion for the monster.
Victor is terrified by the realization that the monster is following him around killing everyone close to him
Eventually, everyone he loves is dead and Victor dedicates the rest of his live to chasing the monster, during which he faces his death and the monster self destroys (supposedly).
Symbols
The fire
The monster's discovery and understanding of the fire is a symbol of knowledge and enlightenment(life? it brings warmth). Parallels to Prometheus who gave fire to human kind. Victor gifted the "fire" to the monster as he created it. The fire creates light in darkness but would also hurt him.
Creation of man
The monster is paralleled to Adam in creation, which parallels Victor to God.