Summary Back in Geneva, Victor begins to study how he will create a second monster; he wants to know the latest developments in the scientific community. He recovers himself and tells his father that he wishes to go to London on a tour. He promises his father that upon his […]
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Summary The monster and Victor finish their conversation in a hut on the slopes of Montanvert. This important chapter is where the monster confronts his maker with an all or nothing proposition:”make me a mate or I will destroy you.” He convinces Victor to once again re-create the process first […]
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Summary The monster and Victor are caught up to each other in time by the end of this chapter. This chapter is pivotal in that it blends the two sides into one story. The monster sees his family leave their cottage, so he burns it down and goes to live […]
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Summary The monster begins his own education, reading the books and notes that he found in Victor’s jacket in the nearby woods. In the jacket pocket are Milton’s Paradise Lost, Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Goethe’s Sorrows of Werter. The list is a virtual required reading list […]
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Summary The De Lacey family history is told through this chapter. The monster tells that the family was once well regarded in France with wealth and social position. Felix aides Safie’s father in a plot to subvert the biased French justice system and free the Turkish merchant from death on […]
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Summary The monster relates how Felix reunites with his lost love, Safie, a woman of Turkish descent. Felix had rescued Safie’s father from death in France and had placed her in the protection of a convent of nuns. She arrives in Germany just barely literate. Felix is overjoyed to see […]
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Summary The monster notices the care and concern the family has for each other, and he senses that there is a mood of despair among the younger family members. The family suffers from poverty and a lack of food. Originally a well-to-do family from France, the De Lacey’s have been […]
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Summary During Chapters 11-16 the monster is the narrator and begins to tell his tale to Victor. The monster begins his story by recalling his earliest memories and how he came to be. After fleeing the city and villages where he is not welcomed, the monster learns to live in […]
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Summary Victor takes a tour of a nearby mountain and glacier on Mount Montanvert to refresh his tortured soul. While on the glacier, the monster confronts his maker. Victor seems ready to engage in a combat to the death, but the monster convinces Victor to listen to his story. The […]
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Analysis Victor suffers from a deep depression, almost like a relapse to his previous attack in Ingolstadt after he created the monster. His father sees his son’s anguish and comments that it seems that Victor is suffering too much. Alphonse does not know what Victor has created and endured for […]
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