Frankenstein Summary

MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN SUMMARY
Victor Frankenstein was born in Geneva form a wealthy family and had a little brother, William, and a couisin,
Elizabeth and he also had a best friend named Harry.
He goes in an important univers8ity where he finds out the most hidden secrets of life; there he learns how to
bring something to life and thus he creates a new human being. However he is orrified by his own creation and so
he runs away.
After a period of illnes, wich he manged to overcome thansk to the help of his best fri8ends, he has to return home
because of the murderer of his little brother William for which a servant is accused.
Soon Frankestein understand that the monster killed his brother but arriving in Geneva, Victor finds that Justine
Moritz, a kind, gentle girl who had been adopted by the Frankenstein household, has been accused. She is tried,
condemned, and executed, despite her assertions of innocence
After some time, while Frankenstein was on a lonely trip, he meets the monster who force him to listen to his
storiy, a story of fear, loneliness, hard time and most important a story of mockery and denigration: every human
the monster have mat had always run away from him not even trying to understand the circumstances that led him
to be like that.
Then one night the monster takes refuge in a small hovel adjacent to a cottage. In the morning, he discovers that
he can see into the cottage through a crack in the wall and observes that the occupants are a young man, a young
woman, and an old blind man.
He acquires a basic knowledge of the language including the names of the young man and woman, Felix and
Agatha.
One day an arabian woman, Safie, arrives and Felix teaches him the basics of engluish which the monster learns too
by listening to them and he also learns Safies and the cottagers’ history soon enough.
While foraging for food in the woods around the cottage one night, the monster finds an abandoned leather
satchel containing some clothes and books. Eager to learn more about the world he brings the books back to his
hovel and begins to read.
The books include Sorrows of Werter, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the last of
which has the most profound effect on the monster. Unaware that Paradise Lost is a work of imagination, he reads
it as a factual history and finds much similarity between the story and his own situation. Rifling through the pockets
of his own clothes, stolen long ago from Victor’s apartment, he finds some papers from Victor’s journal. With his
newfound ability to read, he soon understands the horrific manner of his own creation and the disgust with which
his creator regarded him.
He now wants to have social interactions and so, on a day when Felix and Agatha aren’t home, he goes talking to
the blind man however, the other return unexpectedly and, horrified by his appearance, they drive him away.
In the wake of this rejection, the monster swears to revenge himself against all human beings, his creator in
particular.
One day he met Williams by chance and when the little boy tells the monster that his father is a Frankenstein he he
monster erupts in a rage of vengeance and strangles the boy to death.
At this point of the story the monster begs Victor to create him another human being for companion but Victor
refuses to do it but to monster manages to convince hom by promising that he would go away if he will have
someone to stay with.
Victor starts to work on the experiment and the meanwhile he gets married with Elizabeth. The situation criticizes
when Victor decides to give up on the promise made to the monster because he is too scarred to create another
one of them, and when the monster finds this out he swears that he will be with him on his wedding night.
After some awful circumstances, like the death of his best friend Harry, he finally marries Elizabeth but on the
wedding nights the monster kills Elizabeth and soon enough his father dies too, so he his left all alone.
His whole family destroyed, Victor decides to leave Geneva and he tries tracking the monster for months. Angered
by these taunts, Victor continues his pursuit into the ice and snow of the North. There he meets Walton and tells
his story.
Just before the ship is set to head back to England, Victor dies. Several days later the monster goes on Victor’s
death bed and when Walton notice him and try to catch him the mo9nster tells him all hi8s sufferings and how he
deeply regrets having become an instrument of evil and that he is ready to die.

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