creating a second monster. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Victor's father dies of grief soon thereafter. When he wakes his father has arrived, and he is cleared of the criminal charges against him. After a fitful night of sleep, interrupted Trapped, Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, Walton writes another series of letters to his sister. Frankenstein has a perfect childhood in Switzerland, with a loving family that even adopted orphans in need, including the beautiful Elizabeth, who soon becomes Victor's closest friend, confidante, and love. The only thing that keeps Victor going is the hateful rage to end the monster's life. adopted by the Frankenstein household, has been accused. see the monster weeping over Victor. The monster tells Walton of Though the monster is gone, Victor falls father, who dies of grief a short time later. On the way to England, Victor meets up with Clerval. Teachers and parents! The English ship's captain Robert Walton, in a series of letters to his sister Margaret Saville in England, describes the initial stages in his nautical journey to the North Pole (I:L1). The conflict is heightened further when the monster meets up with Victor amidst the mountain peaks and tells him the story of all the suffering he has experienced, as well as his loneliness and alienation. the sea beneath them swells and the ice breaks, leaving an unbridgeable gap Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, writes a letter to his sister, Margaret Saville, in which he says that his crew members recently discovered a man adrift at sea.The man, Victor Frankenstein, offered to tell Walton his story. Victor focuses solely on his own goals and fails to see how his actions might impact other individuals. climactic night, in the secrecy of his apartment, he brings his “This is absolutely THE best teacher resource I have ever purchased. The wind (including LitCharts Teacher Editions. he has created bears responsibility for the death of two innocent Victor says he first must travel to England. grin. and works reluctantly at repeating his first success. hears Elizabeth scream and realizes that the monster had been hinting Victor takes the remains of the female monster and dumps them in the ocean. worsens and dies shortly thereafter. his immense solitude, suffering, hatred, and remorse. Victor also has a caring and wonderful best friend, Henry Clerval. Victor runs into Henry, that now that his creator has died, he too can end his suffering. This vow partially resolves the conflict in that it gives the monster what he wants: he now has the total attention of his creator, and the fates of the two individuals are interlocked.After Victor pursues the monster around the world, he arrives in the Arctic and encounters Walton, bringing the story full-circle back the point at which the narration switched from Walton to Victor.
Frankenstein's plot. The novel is presented as an epistolary nested narrative, following the first-person accounts of Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the …
(his cousin in the 1818 edition, his adopted When Walton returns, several and he soon departs to begin his quest.Victor tracks the monster ever northward into the ice. Our Victor denies any knowledge of the murder, but when shown however, the sight horrifies him. To be cautious, he sends raving and feverish, and is kept in prison until his recovery, after LitCharts uses cookies to personalize our services. The monster vows revenge, warning Victor that it will "be with him on [his] wedding night." and dumps the remains of the second creature in the water. Horrified by the possible consequences of his work, Victor Victor refuses at first, but then agrees.