Plot outline of Frankenstein

Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, writes a letter to his sister, Margaret
Saville, in which he says tha his crew members recently discovered a mai stranded at sea. The man,
Victor Frankenstein, offered to tell Walton his story.

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.

Victor also has a caring and wonderful best friend, Henry Clerval. Just before Victor turns seventeen
and goes to study at the University at Ingoldstadt, his mother dies of scarlet fever. At Ingolstadt,
Victor dives into "natural philosophy" with a passion, studying the secrets of life with such focus that
he even loses touch with his family.

He soon rises to the top of his field, and suddenly, one night, discovers the secret of life. With
visions of creating a new and noble race, Victor puts his knowledge to work. But when he animates
his first creature, its appearance is so horrifying he abandons it. Victor hopes the monster has
disappeared for ever, but some months later he receives word that his youngest brother, William,
has been murdered.

Though Victor sees the monster standing at the site of the murder and is sure it did the murder, he
fears no one will believe him and keeps silent. Justine Moritz, another adoptee in his family, has
been falsely accused based of the crime. She is convicted and executed. Victor is consumed by guilt.

To escape its tragedy, the Frankensteins go on vacation.. One day, the monster appears and starts
telling the Victor his side of the story. The monster describes his wretched life, full of suffering and
rejection solely because of his horrifying appearance. (The monster also explains how he learned to
read and speak so well, by teaching himself how to speak and write and learning what happened to
him by looking Victor's notes he found in the woods)

The monster blames his rage on humanity's inability to perceive his inner goodness and his resulting
total isolation. It demands that Victor, its creator who brought it into this wretched life, create a
female monster to give it the love that no human ever will. Victor refuses at first, but then agrees.

Back in Geneva, Victor's father expresses his wish that Victor marry Elizabeth. Victor says he first
must travel to England. On the way to England, Victor meets up with Clerval. Soon, though, Victor
leaves Clerval at the house of a friend in Scotland and moves to a remote island to make his second,
female, monster. But one night Victor begins to worry that the female monster might turn out more
destructive than the first. At the same moment, Victor sees the first monster watching him work
through a window. The horrifying sight pushes Victor to destroy the female monster.

The monster vows revenge, warning Victor that it will "be with him on his wedding night."

Victor takes the remains of the female monster and dumps them in the ocean. But when he returns
to shore, he is accused of a murder that was committed that same night. When Victor discovers that
the victim is Clerval, he collapses and remains delusional for two months. When he wakes, his father
has arrived, and he is cleared of the criminal charges against him.
Victor returns with his father to Geneva, and marries Elizabeth. But on his wedding night, the
monster instead kills Elizabeth.

Victor's father dies of grief soon thereafter. Now, all alone in the world, Victor dedicates himself
solely to seeking revenge against the monster. He tracks the monster to the Arctic, but becomes
trapped on breaking ice and is rescued by Walton's crew.

Walton writes another series of letters to his sister. He tells her about his failure to reach the North
Pole and to restore Victor, who died soon after his rescue. Walton's final letter describes his
discovery of the monster crying over Victor's corpse. He accuses the monster of having no remorse,
but the monster says it has suffered more than anyone. With Victor dead, the monster leaves to
area to end his own life.

CHARACTERS

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN

-Protagonist and narrator of the story.

-While he studies in Ingolstadt, Victor Frankenstein finds out the secret of life and creates an
intelligent but pretty strange monster.

- Victor wants existence of the monster to stay as a secret.

- When he realizes that the monster can ruin not only his life but also the lives of other so Victor
feels increasingly guilty and ashamed.

- Telling the of his story to Robert Walton, hepasses away

THE MONSTER

The monster which is eight foot tall is hideously ugly creation of Victor Frankenstein.

As the monster is pretty intelligent and sensitive, he wants to mingle with other people but because
of his look, people get scared and shun him.

Being isolated from other people, The monster wants to get revenge from his creator.

ROBERT WALTON

Robert is a captain of North Pole-bound ship and gets trapped between sheets of ice.

-He and his crew saves Victor Frankenstein and

Robert learns what Victor's story is.

-After hearing Victor Frankenstein's story, He compiles bunch of tale letters and then adresses to his
sister, Margaret Saville

ALPHONSE FRANKENSTEIN

-He is Victor Frankenstein's father

-Alphonse treats very sympatheticly toward his son.

-Alphonse consoles Victor while he was in pain and encourages him to remember the importance of
family.

ELIZABETH LAVENZA

In the 1818 editon of the novel Elizabeth is Victor's cousin, the child of Alphonse Frankenstein's
sister.

In the 1831 edition, Victor's mother rescues her from peasant cottage in Italy.

Elizabeth embodies the novel's motif of passive women because she waits patiently for victor's
attention.

HENRY CLERVAL

He is victor's boyhood friend.

Henry nurses Victor back to health inIngolstadt

He works unhappily for his father thus he begins to follow in Victor's footsteps as a scientist.

He is pretty cheerful type of guy while Victor is completely opposite of Henry.

WILLIAM FRANKENSTEIN

Victor's youngest brother and the darling of the Frankenstein family.

William gets strangled by the monster created by Victor

The monster kills William in order to hurt Victor for abandoning him.

Victor is profoundly devastated by William's death and feels a great deal of remorse for creating the
monster.

JUSTINE MORITZ

Justine gets adopted by Frankensteins while Victor is growing up.

Justine is held responible and executed for William's murder which is actually committed by the
monster.
PEASANTS

A family of peasants, including a blind old man, De Lacey; his son and daughter, Felix and Agatha;
and a foreign woman named Safe.

By observing them, The monster learns how to speak and inreact

Revealing himself to them, He hopes for friendship however he got beaten and chased by the
peasants

M. WALDMAN

'The professor of chemistry who paves the way for Victor's interest in science.

He dismisses the alchemists conclusions as unfounded but sympathizes with Victor's interest in a
science that can explain the "big questions, such as the origin of life.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a novel about an orphan named Pip who becomes a
gentleman.

• Philip "Pip" Pirrip is an orphan with aspirations of one day being a gentleman.

He falls in love with Estella.

• Miss Havisham is a bitter old woman who was jilted at the altar on her wedding day.

She teaches Estella to break men's hearts.

• Estella: a beautiful young orphan, raised by Miss Havisham to be cold and aloof.

• Abel Magwitch is a former convict whom Pip meets while visiting his parents' graves.

Abel secretly becomes Pip's benefactor as thanks for Pip's assistance in aiding Magwitch's escape.

• Pip grows up in Kent with his older sister and her husband, Joe. One day, he aids an escaped
convict.

• Pip meets the wealthy Miss Havisham and falls in love with her adopted daughter, Estella.

• After receiving a mysterious fortune, Pip moves to London to become a gentleman. His benefactor
is revealed to be the convict he aided, Magwitch, who dies after Pip attempts to help him escape.

• Pip goes to work abroad for his friend Herbert Pocket and is later reunited with Estella.

• Great Expectations follows the young protagonist Pip, a lower-class orphan who lives with his
sister and her husband in Kent. At the beginning of the novel, Pip is visiting his parents' graves when
a mysterious stranger clearly an escaped prisoner- grabs ahold of him and makes several demands of
the young boy. Following these demands, Pip steals food and a file (items the prisoner requests), but
the man is caught by authorities anyway. This deed serves as the inciting incident of the novel, as it
is later revealed in the text that this escaped prisoner, Magwitch, is Pip's anonymous benefactor.

• As a young boy, Pip is taken by his kindly brother-in-law, Joe, on a visit to Satis House the abode of
the eccentric spinster Miss Havisham. Pip becomes enamored with Estella, Miss Havisham's young
ward. Estella is beautiful yet cruel, and Pip makes it his life's mission to become a wealthy gentleman
worthy of being her husband.

• Pip visits Satis House regularly after his first encounter with Estella, only to discover that Miss
Havisham wants him to become Joe's apprentice as a blacksmith. Pip had secretly hoped that Miss
Havisham would help him become an educated gentleman instead.

• Pip reluctantly works under Joe and is unhappy there. He especially hates the violent Orlick,
another worker in the forge who beats Pip's sister so savagely that she becomes an invalid. While
working in the forgery, Pip struggles to continue his self-directed education with the help of a few
friends, until a lawyer named Jaggers appears and tells Pip about a large sum of money that has
been gifted to him by an anonymous benefactor. reluctantly works under Joe and is unhappy there.
He especially hates the violent rick, another worker in the forge who beats Pip's sister so savagely
that she becomes an invalid. While working in the forgery, Pip struggles to continue his self-directed
ducation with the help of a few friends, until a lawyer named Jaggers appears and Ills Pip about a
large sum of money that has been gifted to him by an anonymous enefactor.

• Pip mistakenly believes that Miss Havisham is his mysterious benefactress, still clinging to the
dream that he will marry Estella. He travels to London to transform himself into the ideal gentleman.
Once there, Pip becomes friends with Herbert Pocket, whose father, Matthew, serves as Pip's
academic tutor, while Herbert shows Pip how to play the part of a gentleman. Although Pip is not
granted access to his fortune until age twenty-one, he continues to run up debts about town with
Herbert.

• After several years, Pip is surprised to find the escaped convict from his childhood in his room in
London. The convict says his name is Magwitch. Magwitch explains that he built himself a fortune in
Australia so that he could one day gift Pip with a large sum of money to transform the poor boy into
the gentleman Pip so longed to be all because Pip had been kind to Magwitch in that graveyard.

• Magwitch asks Pip for help, as he is now being hunted down by London police and his former
criminal accomplice, Compeyson. Pip finds out that Compeyson is the man who jilted Miss
Havisham, leaving her at the altar, and that Magwitch is Estella's father. Miss Havisham only raised
Estella to spite Compeyson, and she purposefully taught the young girl to break men's hearts. Pip
was just Estella's first victim, as Miss Havisham instructed her ward to toy with Pip's emotions when
they first met.

• Estella marries an upper-class gentleman, Bentley Drummle, who is brash and unkind.

Miss Havisham invites Pip to Satis House to seek his forgiveness for the past, only to...

• The Importance of Character over Class

• The biggest theme of Great Expectations is the ultimate insignificance of social class when judging
character. For much of the novel, Pip assumes the upper classes are all-around superior to everyone
else. He rejects people who love him like Joe and Biddy- for snobby, coldhearted people like Estella
and Miss Havisham, only because the latter are of a much higher social class and appear altogether
glamorous in his eyes. By the end of the novel, Pip comes to learn that class is meaningless;
character is what matters most. While Miss Havisham is part of the upper class, she is also vengeful
and bitter. While Joe is a coarse blacksmith, he is kind, humble, and patient. While Magwitch is a
convict, he is generous to Pip and helps him procure an education.