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And alas, we reach the ending of this story, leading us to a full cycle of how the beginning of the story began. In “Chapter 23” of Mary Shelley’s infamous Frankenstein , after he accepted the fact that he lost his soon to be bride, he dedicates the rest of his life to hunting down the monster that ruined his life. He decides to leave Geneva, where all his painful memories are, and drops it all to follow the monster’s tracks. Which is where Robert Watson finds him and pulls him out of the ice. And Victor tell the story of the time he brought a corpse to life. He says it almost as a warning for Watson, someone fairly similar in terms of pushing limits and doing the undone. The stereotypical “let me give you some wisdom” says the man to a younger version of himself. If Victor was given this talk right before the monster’s reanimation, there is a possibility this story would not have happened, hypothetically. Obviously Mary Shelley could still write this with the same ending whether Vic...

“Chapter 21” of the suspenseful Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is left on a cliffhanger when Victor wakes from his rest on the boat to find himself accused for murder. This blog was supposed to start of chapter 20 but I summarized chapter 20 in my previous blog, causing this blog to start on a reveal of the tragic death of Henry Clerval, Victor’s best friend whom he was traveling with. Victor is stuck in prison for a while and proceeds to be sick. On day he gets a visitor, he father comes once he hears the news, eventually, Victor is found innocent and if free to return to Geneva with his father. Once the journey home is completed, there is still the wedding to worry about. Besides planning it, there is also the monster’s threat lingering in an eerie spirit. Victor had a right to worry, because the night before, the monster came to murder yet another person, Elizabeth. The prediction proved itself true, besides this, you can also assume Elizabeth was going to die instead of Victor becaus...

By “Chapter 17” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , the monster has come a long way. He has learned to read and speak eloquently, not only that, he has also processed life and the world around him. The creature understands that the townspeople are superficial and fear the mostly solely on his appearance and not his soul,and now the monster comes to realize the feeling of loneliness, which he claims, is the source of his violent murder of his uncle William. Once he ends his media res flashback, the monster requests Victor to make him a female counterpart, which will fight lonesome feelings and eliminate urges of murdering. Victor goes on a 2 year trip England in order to get information to create his monster’s bride. Mid way through his project, he is reminded of what creating another monster would mean, having double the amount of monstrosity and possibility of death, which Victor would find himself accountable for. Not to mention the possibility of procreation, multiplying this unwante...

In chapters 14 through 16 of the capital R romantic classic Frankenstein , we hear the story behind the monster’s neighbors, Felix, Agatha, Safie, and De Lacey. This family was originally from France and was forced to leave because they tried to help a Turk prisoner escape. That prisoner, was the father of Safie, whom fell in love with Felix, which is the reason behind the jail break. They now live in this cottage in poverty. Sooner or later, Safie managed to track them down. Now, the monster has grown close to them without his neighbors knowing and decided one day to expose himself to them. He waited for a day where Felix, Agatha and Safie went for a long walk, he was targeting De Lacey. The monster believed that if he gets De Lacey to like the monster’s personality, he can win the others over and ignore his grotesque appearance. Sadly, before given the chance, they came home early, catching the monster in their cottage and drove him away in fear. I find this as a visual representatio...

In chapters 11 to 13 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , the monster begins to tell his story. He explains that he learned to speak so eloquently by listening in on his neighbors Felix and Agatha and their blind father.There was a contemporary foreigner that came to their home, in which they taught her the fundamentals on the language. This was perfect opportunity for the monster to learn; he would eavesdrop into their lessons, and learned the elementary levels of English. Since Felix taught Safie, the beautiful foreigner in the black dress, from history books, both her and the monster learned history and English. Along with the neighbors unknown help to the monster, he also is self taught; he found books such as Paradise lost,teaching him to speak fluently. Besides learning how to speak, he also learns about society and the world around him. He is aware of the fact that people run away from him. He began to see himself as society perceives him. This is where I believe the monster grows...

Chapter 8 of Frankenstein Justine’s confession, although she is not guilty. She tells Elizabeth and Victor however, that she in reality is innocent and miserable acting like she is guilty of murder. Victor and Elizabeth believe her, Victor obviously knowing the monster is the real culprit, he is consumed with more guilt when the town decides to execute Justine, a second death by the cause of this monster Victore created. After Justine’s death he spirals into depression and suicidal thoughts. The only thing stopping him from ending it all is thinking of Elizabeth and his father. In an attempt to help, Victor’s father takes him to his home in Belrive. The beautiful scenery in the Valley of Chamounix did him some good but it was brief. He finds himself going back to the old feelings of despair. He takes himself out the summit Montanvert to try to cheer himself up. At the top of the summit, he sees something moving, growing closer to him at a fast speed, it was unmistakably his monster. He...

In chapter 5 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , on a stormy night, after months of hard work, Victor Frankenstein completed his creation. After coming face to face with his monster, his horrific face scared Victor, he decides to run from his creature and sleeps in the other room. In which, he has a bad dream about Elizabeth and his mother. He sees his mother’s corpse,frightened from this nightmare, we wakes up to another, the monster is watching over him on his bed, smiling at his creator. He flees the house, heading into the town of Ingolstadt, where to his surprise he finds his age old friend Henry, who recently came to study at the same university as Victor. It was healthy to see a familiar face, since Victor had spent so much time working on his monster, he put himself into an unhealthy isolated position. Victor takes Henry back to his monster free home, where Henry nurses Victor back to health. Once he finally recovered, he reads the letters received from Elizabeth during his illn...

Victor and Elizabeth become the best of best of friends by chapter 2, along with their friend Henry Clerval. This trio was majority of Victor’s childhood, it was not until Victor was a teenager that he ended up taking an interest in the natural world and all mysteries kept in it. A book by Cornelius Agrippa concerning natural philosophy was what started his fascination with the  supernatural parts of the world. A big part of his intrigue with this science was when a modern natural philosopher described the nature of electricity. As well known this is the key element that comes into play when he reanimates his corpse. Before getting to this part however, he first needs to learn all the basic knowledge to get to this point. In which, he decided to leave for college at a university in Ingolstadt at age 17. Contemporarily, as he leaves, his mom catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth, whom she is nursing back to health. Which I believe foreshadows the death of either Elizabeth or Victor...