frankenstein begins when a young man named captain Walton
takes a ship into the Arctic Ocean he's hoping to make important scientific
discoveries
his ship get stranded for a few days when she device forms all around it
to his amazement he and his crew see a gigantic man
about eight feet tall driving a dog sled across the ice
until it disappears in the distance a little later
they see a normal sized man on another dog sled chasing the first one
this man is almost dead from exhaustion and exposure
so they take him aboard the man is Victor Frankenstein
water becomes friends with him and while frankenstein is recovering
he told Walton has story frankenstein grew up in geneva
his father had been an important figure in the government and they were well off
he grew up with his cousin Elizabeth who his parents expected him to marry
eventually
he had a little brother named William he had a best friend named henry clay ball
frankenstein goes to a famous university
in Ingolstadt where he becomes very good at science he figures out scientifically
how to bring something to life
though he doesn't tell us what the secret is he makes a creature using
parts from a graveyard
on a rainy night November he brings it to life
but he so horrified by it that he runs away the next day
his friend Claire ball arrives at the university to begin his studies
but frankenstein becomes ill in Clare ball spends all winter nursing him
just as he's getting better at the beginning of spring
he gets a letter telling him that his little brother William has been murdered
just teen serving in his house whom everyone always liked
has been arrested because William had been carrying a locket that was found on
her
so frankenstein heads home just before he gets home
he sees the monster from a distance and he knows that the monster killed his
brother
frankenstein watches just teens trial and his cousin
Elizabeth testifies that she's too nice to have done this
but she's convicted and sentenced to death frankenstein has to watch her die
frankenstein goes with his family on a sightseeing trip
in one day when he goes mountain climbing by himself the monster appears
to him
and make some sit down and listen to a story frankenstein would rather kill him
but he listens the monster describes how we came to life completely disoriented
he didn't know how to speak or understand language and he had to get
used to the feel of his own body
and to figure out basic concepts like a light and dark he even called
and hunger and thirst he eventually wandered out into the forest
where he could hide and look for berries and nuts the first human he sees as an
old man in height
who runs away in terror because the monster so hideous
he's fascinated by the first village he walks into
but the residents are terrified and the driver Mark by throwing things at him
he finally find shelter in this little shed
built up against the side of a cottage he can look through a crack
and observe the people who live there but they don't know is there these
people are called the delay sees
a brother and sister named Felix an Agatha and they're blind old father
who plays the guitar the creature sees how much they love each other
and he wants to be like them he starts learning language by listening to them
speak French
one day in Arabian woman
named Saifee arrives say be doesn't speak English or know much about
European culture
so Felix teachers are everything from vocabulary and reading to history
and the monster learns along with her he learns to read and write
in about good and evil about the history of human societies
in the woods he finds three books Paradise Lost
the Sorrows of Young Werther and Plutarch lives
and he reads the papers that were in frankenstein's dressing gown
which reveal who Frankenstein is where he lives
and how we came to make the monster the monster starts to hate frankenstein for
giving him such an awful lonely existence
and abandoning him since he's too ugly to make friends with anyone
eventually the monster learns the story of these people
the delay seas were rich family in Paris but Felix help the wealthy Turk
escape from prison because he felt sorry for him
so the government took the delay see families money in banish them
and they want to live in the cottage the Turk did escape from prison
but he abandoned Felix afterward but the turks daughter
safety have fallen in love with Felix so she escaped to come marry him
the monster wants to be friends with the delay sees and he decided that if he
goes to talk to the old man first
the old man will listen because he's blind when the others leave
he pretends to be a traveler and speaks to delay see and it's going okay until
Felix Magath Burns AP come back
the women are horrified and Felix tribes the monster off with a stick
at first the monster goes out into the woods and decides that he's going to
declare war on humans
but in the morning he cools down and decides to go back and try again
but he finds Felix giving up the lease and he never sees the delay seas again
which makes him feel doubly rejected he comes back at night destroys the cottage
then he starts the long walk to geneva to try to find his Creator
he gets shot while he's on his way there just because he stopped to help a woman
whose drowning
when he gets to geneva he grab this little boy thinking that he can use the
boy to learn his way around
but when the boy mentions his father's name is frankenstein the monster kills
him to get revenge on Frankenstein
you might notice that there's an inconsistency in the story here
because Victor made the creature in November then got sick all winter
William got killed the following spring maybe six months later
but the creature spend a whole year at the cottage and he kills William Morley
18 months after being created so there's a difference a year between the two
stories
just to be even more hateful he puts the locket william was carrying in Justin's
pocket
known should be condemned for murder the monster insists that Frankenstein make a
female as ugly as he is
so he'll have a companion he promises to go away with her to South America
and threatens to kill lots of people a frankenstein won't do it
so frankenstein agrees frankenstein decides to go on a long trip
and work on the new month they're away from home so he in Clare ball going
along sightseeing trip
through Germany England and Scotland he eventually went a little cottage on a
remote island in Scotland
to do the work but he gets disgusted and destroys the new creature before it's
finished
the monster comes in to find out what he's doing and is furious that
Frankenstein broke his promise
the monster swears he'll get revenge and says I'll be with you on your wedding
night
frankenstein takes all the parts and put them in a basket
been sales out Noble at night and dumps at all then he goes to sleep in the boat
when he comes ashore he's in Ireland and the people arrest them
it turns out someone strangled his friend Claire ball anything frankenstein
did it
he gets sick again because he's so upset that the monster told another his
friends
and a magistrate has em nursed back to health he's eventually released
since he didn't kill clairol he goes back home
any Mary's Elizabeth like they've been planning their whole lives
he thinks the monsters planning to kill him on his wedding night so he set up
waiting with a gun
but the monster actually kills Elizabeth his father dies a brief soon afterward
so victor is lost everybody he devoted his life to finding the monster in
destroying it
but the monster keeps going farther and farther north until they're chasing each
other on dog sleds far out to sea
after he told Walton the whole story he dies
the monster comes on board the boat to pay a final farewell to Frankenstein
he told Walton he's going to set himself on fire destroyed himself because he
didn't mean to be bad
Walton winds up taking the ship back home partly because the crew makes them
and partly because Frankenstein story shows that scientific discovery isn't
worth sacrificing your life or
one of the major questions in the book is how much we should blame frankenstein
for what happens and how much the monster
critics like to point out all the things that are wrong with frankenstein
because he was irresponsible in created this monster for no good reason
then he abandoned his creation instead of helping it and he was very careless
about protecting his friends
readers tend to see the monsters mara fault though because even though he gets
a lot of bad breaks
being frighteningly ugly and misunderstood his decision to kill a
child that's just evil
and he keeps killing people out of spite are for revenge
another question is whether the creatures naturally good Mikey claims to
be
and what it is that makes him become evil his own choices
were things that happened to him
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