Frankenstein

Work About The Book

Vocabulary
Endeavor
to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive: We must constantly endeavor if we
are to succeed.

Vacillating
uncertain in purpose or action

Gloomy
depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

Cursory
going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a
newspaper article.

Prognostications
a forecast or prediction.

Repugnance
strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy.

Emulating
to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass: to emulate one's father as a concert
violinist.

Insurmountable
incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.

Virtue
moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

Poignant
keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret

Culled
Chosen, selcted, picked

Fiend
Satan; the devil.

Solitude
the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.

Perpendicularly
vertical; straight up and down; upright.
Indelible
making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.

Summary
Volume II
Chapter 1
After the trial on which Justine was condemned, Victor Frankenstein started to feel bad and fearful, so
he decides to move on to their house on Belrive. During the trip Frankenstein starts to think about how
he should be condemned instead of Justine and that it would be better if he never had created the
monster.
He keeps with those sick thoughts until their arrival in Belrive.
Chapter 2
In their first day in Belrive Frankenstein decides to go for a walk. He go to the mountains where he
finds the creature. For his surprise the monster speaks formerly his language and communicates with
him. The monster start telling his history after he left the Lab.
Chapter 3
The creature starts to tell his tale about how the society rejected him, how he made his first discovers
about nature, hunger, animals and general stuff, and tell him about the De-Lacey (Felix the son, Aghata
the daughter and the old blind man) family with whom he “lived with”.
Chapter 4
This chapter represents a great evolution for the creature, he listen to music for the first time experience
feelings, such as hate happiness sadness and such. He also start's to learn how to speak, learning the
name of the cottagers and name of several things such as milk bread. He sees himself for the first time
reflected in water and then realizes that he is a monster so he decides to not show himself before he can
properly speaks french.
Chapter 5
This chapter starts together with spring which was a new experience for the creature, Felix seemed
really sad until the arrival of Safie a dark and beautiful Arabian woman who spoke no french. They
were madly in love so the family welcomed her and taught her to speak French, the creature take
benefit of it and learn along with her. He starts to understand most of the conversations and understands
the lessons about history of humanity. With this knowledge the creature became more lonely because
he realized that there are no trails of his past.
Chapter 6
After learning how to understand and read french the creature learned the history of the cottagers and
the Arabian woman and to prove his honesty he gives Frankenstein copies of the letters between Safie
and Felix. He tells the sad history of the cottagers, how they lost their fortune and went to live in that
place.
Chapter 7
The creature finds a bag with books and clothes in the forest. He read The Sorrows of Werter, Paradise
Lost, and Plutarch's Lives to became smarter and his reading only emphasize how he is just a wretched.
He also find Frankenstein's journal so he knows his own origin which get him more disgusted and
lonely. After that he goes inside the house to try to make friends to they, only De Lacey was on the
house, he was kind to the creature but the creature only decided to tell him he need them, the young
ones came inside, before De-Lacey could even answer Safie fainted and Felix chased the monster
away.
Chapter 8
After he was expelled from the house he spent the night in the forest crying. He was super angry and
declared war to all species and more than all against Frankenstein. He return to his place near the
cottage and find the cottage is empty, he finds Felix returning with the landlord explaining that his
family could no longer live there because the father's health was badly altered by the encounter with the
creature and then the monster burns the cottage in a rage that night. He decides to get revenge from the
man who created him. The nature around him almost helped him but the shot he received for saving a
girl from a river was the final straw for him
Chapter 9
Frankenstein and the creature started to discuss about the creation of a female for him. Frankenstein's
point was if he did that the monster would destroy all the humanity with her partner. The monster
counter argue telling Frankenstein he would travel away from Europe to the wilds of South America
where they would live away from humanity, the creature also said that if Frankenstein refused to create
her, he would prevent Frankenstein from happiness.
VOLUME III
Chapter 1
After meeting with the creature on the gelid mountains, Frankenstein agreed to create him a female.
This project requires him a travel to England for getting new information. Frankenstein also promise to
marry Elizabeth as soon as he is back from England.
Frankenstein and Alphonse arrange a two-year tour with Henry Clerval. After traveling a while they
reach London
Chapter 2
Victor and Henry tour around England and Scotland, but Victor doesn't really care about the trip he is
just impatient to start his work to free himself of his issues with the creature. Frankenstein start's a
alone tour of Scotland. There he, on a small shack, set up a lab and works many hours on his new
creature. He have many problems on finishing his project.
Chapter 3
Frankenstein was almost finishing his female monster, but he realizes that the female monster might
not agree with the terms he made with the male creature. So he goes back to his laboratory and destroys
everything. The monster came to his apartment to argue about it, and as Frankenstein didn't accepted
any argument the monster claims revenge. Henry sent a to Frankenstein so that he join him, because
Henry was leaving for India soon. Frankenstein stay a few days packing and when he goes away he
throws away everything remaining from the new creature on the waters
Chapter 4
The magistrate comes to Frankenstein and show's him pieces of a body, it was Henry, Frankenstein is
sure that it was the creature. M Kirwin believed that Frankenstein is innocent of the murder. Mr. Kirwin
also calls his father to take care of him. Although Frankenstein was exited see his father, he was
worried that the monster might kill him
Chapter 5
While resting in France, Frankenstein got a letter from Elizabeth explained that she wanted to marry
him but only if she was his only love. Frankenstein even knowing that he might been killed on his
marriage night, decide to be brave and wrote Elizabeth they would marry as soon as he returned home.
He returned home and the day of the wedding was set up 10 days after that.
In the mean time Frankenstein carried a gun and dagger for protection.
Chapter 6
After the wedding in the honeymoon, Frankenstein go everywhere to check if the monster was not
there. Then he hear a scream from the room. When he got there, Elizabeth was strangled and ripped out
across the bed. After that Frankenstein sees the monster in the window and chase him with no success.
Really stressed and worried about his father and brother, Frankenstein set out for home, His father was
so shocked by the news of Elizabeth's death that dies in Frankenstein's arms a few days later.
Frankenstein spent a time in an insane asylum before being released, then he went to the magistrate to
demand help catching the monster. The magistrate refused thinking frankenstein was crazy to want to
chase a superhuman thing. At that point, Frankenstein decided to spend the rest of his life chasing the
creature.
Chapter 7 (FINAL)
Trying to figure out where to begin his search, Frankenstein went to the cemetery where his relatives
were buried. He swears on their graves that he would avenge their deaths, and he heard the monster
laughing at him. Frankenstein followed the monster across all Europe and in direction of the North
Pole, the monster used to leave food and stashes for him so that his torture of living only for revenge
was extended.
Frankenstein begs Walton to kill the monster if given the chance and after that is just a bunch of
Walton's letters from almost every day until Frankenstein dies and reveal that the monster is wanting to
destroy every trace trace of his existence.

Character List

Robert Walton: Indirect narrator of the frame story. Self-educated man wanting to reach and explore the
North Pole. Tell's the story to his sister, he's also the last one to see the monster before,the creature goes
kill itself

Victor Frankenstein: Older son out of three, of a rich Genevese man. Scientist, studied at a college,
discovers the way to create life, but his experiment runs far away from him.

The Creature: Created by Frankenstein, it's a bunch of dead people parts with inhuman strength.
He's so ugly that not even his own creator can look at him, he's a lovely and gentle person on the
beginning but the people society changes him into pure evil and rage.

Elizabeth Lavenza: Cousin of Victor Frankenstein she's a beautiful girl, victor constant companion and
friend. Her beauty and kindness made her adored almost for everyone. As a revenge for not creating a
companion for him the creature kills her.

Henry Clerval: Life-long friend of Frankenstein, nursed him during his period of illness, he's also killed
by the monster as a revenge from not making him a female companion

Justine Moritz: Servant of the Frankensteins, a nice and kind person who gets condemned, death
hallway, for killing the young boys, but it was a crime committed by the creature.

Alphonse Frankenstein: Victor's father, a wealthy and benevolent man who loved his children and wife.
He was a great person but died from accumulated sorrow and shock

Caroline Beufort Frankenstein: Wife of Alphonse and mother of Victor. She's a great mother but dies
while taking care of Elizabeth who was sick

De Lacey Family: Felix, Agatha, and their blind father. Family of cottagers near where the creature
lives. They are french exiles living in Germany because Felix helped an unjustly imprisoned Turk
escape. Is the first contact for the monster with love and kindness from part of the humans, although at
the end they hate the monster as everybody else. Which make the monster even angrier from humanity.