The first major event that happens that helps develop the book of Frankenstein, is that our main character Victor Frankenstein is found by Captain Robert Walton in the arctic sea. Victor is frozen and on the verge of death when Walton finds him and takes him upon his ship to nurture him. It is there where our story begins. Victor begins to tell his life story and the how he ended up where he is now.The second major event that happens in Frankenstein is that Victor starts to describe his early life. Victor was a child that interested in the big picture questions, such as life and death. He also tells of his fascination with “Galvanism” and “Alchemy”. However, this fascination of Victor’s soon becomes an obsession and he engulfes himself in his …show more content…
research and studies; determined to find the answers to his improbable questions. The third major event that happens in the story is that Victor’s ’s mother passes away from scarlet fever. This is a major event in the story because after her death Victor finally decides to leave home and continue his studies in college at Ingolstadt. He and his dear friend Henry Clerval leave for the university the following day. He leaves behind his love, Elizabeth and the rest of his family. This is the beginning of him truly furthering his knowledge to the things he seeks to find, which would be the existence of life and death. The fourth major event in the story, is when Victor meets Mr. Krempe, Victor’s professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt. Mr.Krempe is described in the book as, "a squat man, with a gruff voice and repulsive countenance." This pertains to be his true nature because tries to discourage Victor from his intended studies, saying they are foolish and unachievable. However, the fifth major event plays along with the fourth event because after his discouraging encounter with Professor Krempe, Victor meets Mr.Waldman, who is his professor of chemistry. Unlike Krempe, Waldman motivates Victor to continue to pursue his studies for science and idealizes that Victor wants to get to the root of existence and answer questions that no one else can. The sixth major event in Frankenstein is when Victor finally creates his monster. After having his push forward motivation from Professor Waldman, Victor sets out to find the parts for the masterpiece he is driven to create.
The story does not give us specific details into the creation of the monster, but it can be determined that he was made on a dark stormy night and is made from the parts of deceased people.The seventh major event in the story is Victor’s reaction to his creation. This is where Victor realizes the giant mistake he has made. As Victor awakes the following morning after his big creation, he is in utter shock at the ghastly monster standing before him. The Monster has a grim smile and lifeless eyes as he reaches out to embrace Victor, who rejects him in his hideousness and flees the house. The eighth major event is after Victor flees his home, he travels to Ingolstadt to try to avoid his now haunted home and to stay far away from his creation. While in the town Victor stubbles upon his dear friend Henry Clerval, who is beginning to start his studies at Ingolstadt. After seeing Henry, Victor is relieved but then soon falls ill because of his constant working and the guilt he feels for creating the Monster. During his weak state, Henry nurses him back to health.The ninth major event in the story is the death of Victor’s brother, William. After Victor is healthy again from his illness he decides to put his past behind him and travel home to see his …show more content…
family. However, upon returning Victor learns that his younger brother William has been murdered and that everyone is accusing a servant and life long friend of the Frankenstein family Justine Moritz. She is accused because she was found with a picture that William was carrying with him just before he died. Victor and Elizabeth suspect her innocence because he believes he saw the Monster the night before in Geneva, but keeps his thoughts to himself in the fear that someone will think he is crazy. The tenth major event in the story is, Justine's death. Even though being falsely accused, Justine confesses to William’s murder and is executed against Victor's wishes. Victor soon begins to realize the price he is paying for his mistakes and the secret he is keeping. His poor judgement and actions have now cost him the lives of two people he cares for. The eleventh major event in the story is, when Victor truly sees the monster after his initial creation.
Guilt has consumed Victor after the deaths of his loved ones, so he goes hiking up Mt. Montanvert looking for a sliver of peace. It is there where he finally sees the Monster. The Monster convinces Victor to hear him out and listen to what he has to say. The monster then begins to tell us his side of the story after his creation. The twelfth major event in the story is from the Monster’s point of view. It is about his early days after being created. The monster talks about his lonely feelings after being abandoned by Victor and explains how he had no one there to teach him and guide him in the ways of this new world he had just entered into. He talks about the things that he slowly learned about things such as hunger, light, warmth and even affection. He then states that everywhere he went to find food or shelter, the people he would stubble upon would scream in terror and flee. The Monster even mentions a small family he met, consisting of a brother and sister and their blind father. He steals from the family hoping to replenish himself and his needs but soon realizes that they are poor, so he then begins to do nice deeds for them hoping to become a more genuine being. He even learns of affection, language and reading thanks to the family by peering in on them daily. But his new home is gone before long because his identity and features our discovered by the family. The
thirteenth major event in the story is when the Monster admits to his wretched crimes and asks for a deal. The Monster talks of his journey to Geneva and meeting William. He states the William despises him and his ugly features but intends to let him go, until he realizes that he is related to Victor. He then decides to strangle him with his bare hands out of anger. He then tells how he framed Justine for his murdered all because of Victor. He then demands Victor to make him a partner just as imperfect so that he won’t be alone in this cruel world; he even promises to flee to South America to live with his mate, and to not bother anyone again. The fourteenth major event in the story is the creation of the Monster’s female companion. Victor leaves his home in Geneva and works in solitude to create the next monster and is consumed by guilt and anguish the entire time. However, in the midst of creating the “she” monster, Victor realizes the danger he is putting the world in by doing so; so he destroys the female monster as the original Monster looks on in anger. The monster vows to meet Victor on his wedding night, threatening his life and the lives of others. The fifteenth major event in the story is the death of Henry Clerval. After destroying the companion for the Monster, Victor decides to dump the body into the ocean where no one will find it. The following day he is meet by anger towns people accusing him of murder of Henry. Even though we know the Monster killed Henry out of spite, Victor is thrown in prison and falls ill. After several months have passed Victor is finally acquitted of the murder and his father takes him back home to Geneva. The sixteenth major event in the story is Victor’s marriage to Elizabeth. On his voyage home Victor receives a letter from Elizabeth asking if he is in love with another, to which he replied that she is the receiver of his love and that he has a secret he needs to share with her and that it is of great importance. . It is then that Victor decides he will fight back against the monster, and that one of them will soon be put out of their misery. Victor then marries Elizabeth and the retreat away to his family’s cottage. The seventeenth major event in the story is Elizabeth’s death. After retreating to the cottage, Victor sends Elizabeth to bed, to search for the Monster around the cottage in hopes of finding him and killing him. Victor then hears Elizabeth scream and realizes that the Monster plan was to kill her the entire time. Victor is overcome by grief that he travels home to tell his father the terrible news. After hearing the news of his sweet Elizabeth his father dies just days later of a broken heart. Victor is now left all alone and miserable, just like the Monster. Victor the sets out to exact his revenge, declaring he will kill the Monster or die trying. The eighteenth major event in the story is the chase for the Monster. Over the course of several months, the Monster leaves Victor clues to his whereabouts but never allows him to get close enough to catch him. Victor as search all over Europe for the Monster and it has now lead him to the frigid ice caps of the arctic sea.The nineteenth major event in the story is the beginning on Walton’s story. Walton’s ship gets trapped in ice and he stumbles upon Victor’s lifeless body and rescues him from his frozen nightmare. Walton begins to befriend Victor and tell him of his aspiration to travel the uncharted seas of the arctic. Victor relates to Walton’s dream and tells him his own story of the dream he once had to discover creation. Walton is shocked at the truth of Victor’s ordeal and wants to help him. Victor encourages Walton to continue North on his journey and to discover what his heart and mind long for, even though his crew wants to head South toward home.The twentieth major event in the story, is the full circle effect it brings. After contemplating for two days Walton ultimately decides to head home. On the voyage home Victor dies and Walton grieves for his new found friend and his conquest. After returning home a few days pass and Walton hears strange noises coming from the room where Victor’s body is being held. Walton walks in to find the monster weeping over Victor’s dead body. The Monster then tells Walton his story and how he was tormented for years. The Monster then apologies for all his evil actions and states that now that his creator is dead he can finally have peace. The Monster leaves the ship in the darkness of the night and sets out to take his own life, to end his ever growing misery.
After the day that Victor’s monster comes to life his creator runs away in disgust at the creation he has made, leaving behind a lost creature looking for its place in the world. As the monster
The first appearance of Victor Frankenstein in the novel is when he boards Robert Walton’s ship after Victor being stranded on the ice. The story then turns to Frankenstein as he tells his story of how he creates the monster, including in great detail how the monster murdered his brother William, subsequently caused the death of his maid/family friend Justine, murdered his friend Henry Clerval, and killed Victor’s wife Elizabeth, and ended up chasing the monster, which is how he got stranded on the ice. Victor vowed revenge after the death of his brother, promising to tirelessly pursue the monster until one of them dies. At the end of the novel, Victor dies on the ship after he tells the story, and Robert Walton meets the monster as he weeps at Victor’s funeral, begging for Victor to forgive him.
Frankenstein is a horror movie that tells the story of Dr. Henry Frankenstein’s experiment. In search for the fame and glory of playing to be god, he reaches a point where he is able to revive dead people. In this version of Frankenstein’s monster we see a selfish and careless scientist that created a creature with his intelligence. The way the character is shown reflects how ambitious someone can be to reach to be known in the world. This movie makes the people who are watching to feel empathy on the poor creature. This poor creature that did not want to live in a life where everyone is going to hate him for having a horrible aspect and not following rules that he has no idea about.
As a tragic hero, Victor’s tragedies begin with his overly obsessive thirst for knowledge. Throughout his life, Victor has always been looking for new things to learn in the areas of science and philosophy. He goes so far with his knowledge that he ends up creating a living creature. Victor has extremely high expectations for his creation but is highly disappointed with the outcome. He says, “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (Shelley 35). Frankenstein neglects the creature because of his horrifying looks, which spark the beginning of numerous conflicts and tragedies. At this point, the creature becomes a monster because of Victor’s neglect and irresponsibility. The monster is forced to learn to survive on his own, without anyone or anything to guide him along the way. Plus, the monster’s ugly looks cause society to turn against him, ad...
All the events and misfortunes encountered in Frankenstein have been linked to one another as a chain of actions and reactions. Of course, the first action and link in the chain is started by Victor Frankenstein. Victor’s life starts with great potential. He comes from a decently wealthy family whose lack of love towards each other never existed. He is given everything he needs for a great future, and his academics seem to be convalescing.
We are introduced to Victor who is found by Robert Walton, now when Victor begins to retell his tragic story he gives us a general view of who he is, where he was born, and what has happened in his life. We then progress through the story and arrive at the rising action which is when Victor returns back to school after his mother’s death and sisters recovery of scarlet fever. Victor sets out to create a living thing upon his return and this is when it all goes down hill, he successfully creates the monster but he is horrified at the site of the creature he then runs like fearful gazelle leaving the creature/monster to wander (very smart Victor). Skipping ahead the monsters causes quite a bit of trouble and strangles a lot of people, and this is all caused by him not being provided with a connection with anyone. Now before he really starts his strangulation spree he spies on a family (the Delacy’s) that teaches him unknowingly how to speak, read, and of general human connection and relationships. This moment of distant watching and learning has left him wanting things even more, he then reveals himself the Father who is blind and he is kind to the monster when the children arrive they terrified and reject the monster. Throughout the tale of the monster is reminded of his indifference by others resulting in him
In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the main theme revolves around the internal and external consequences of being isolated from others. Being isolated from the world could result in a character losing his/her mental state and eventually causing harm to themselves or others. Because both Victor Frankenstein and the creature are isolated from family and society, they experienced depression, prejudice, and revenge.
At the age of seventeen, victor leaves his family and attends a university at Ingolstadt. Like a mad scientist, and to the knowledge of no one, he locks himself away in his apartment and after two years of obsessive labor he creates his monster. Even during this time of following his passion, Victor is miserable and suffers from illness. “and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade, than an artist occupied by his favourite employment. Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow-creatures as if ...
As time goes on, many things tend to change, and then they begin to inherit completely different images. Over the years, the character, created by Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s famous novel, has changed dramatically. The monster, regularly called “Frankenstein,” has been featured in numerous films, such as Frankenweenie and Edward Scissorhands. Although, the characters in today’s pop culture and the monster in the well-known 1800’s novel have similarities, they are actually very different. The many similarities and differences range from the character’s physical traits and psychological traits, the character’s persona, and the character’s place in the Gothic style.
Victor Frankenstein finds himself exploring the world of science against his fathers wishes but he has an impulse to go forward in his education through university. During this time any form of science was little in knowledge especially the chemistry which was Victors area if study. Victor pursues to go farther than the normal human limits of society. “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow” (Chapter 4). He soon finds the answer he was looking for, the answer of life. He becomes obsessed with creating a human being. With his knowledge he believes it should be a perfe...
Victor, out of horror of what he had created leaves the monster in isolation. The monster describes what it was like, “It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were instinctively, finding myself so desolate… I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept,” (Shelley 87). At this point the monster is just an innocent child, who in his first hours has faced abandonment and such strong emotions. However, he is pure, like most babies. While he looks like a monstrosity he shows himself to be anything but. His first encounters with humans are all very negative. A man runs away screaming just at the sight of him. Villagers pelted him with rocks and chased him away. This makes him very fearful of humans. However, when he comes across the De Lacey family in their little cottage he sees how peaceful they are and he regains some hope. “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching, and endeavoring to discover the motives which influenced their actions,” (Shelley 93). He is curious little
The first part of the novel brings us into the life of Victor Frankenstein, who was born to a rich Geneva family, with two other siblings Victor and Ernest. Further into the book we also come to know Elizabeth, who was adopted by Victor’s parents, when Victor was four. As the story goes on Victor soon falls in love with Elizabeth and his mother’s dying wish is that he marries her someday. Victor spends the first part of the novel presenting his childhood and later years, up until the time he was to leave for college. While attending the University of Ingolstadt, Victor begins to exceed extremely well at chemistry and many of the other science classes that he attends. While attending the college and taking all the science classes he learns how to put dead tissue back together and bring something back to life. This new found knowledge that Victor has, brings us to our first effect, because he has learned how to bring things back to life. He begins to formulate a plan to build a body by using dead tissue. When he begins to take action on his plan, and ...
When victor brings the monster to life he soon realises that he has made a big mistake because he says ‘What have I done?’ this tells us that Victor has pride in his work at first but then it quickly turns to disbelief then he becomes terrified he leaves the monster and goes to his home in Geneva. The monster soon realises that he has been abandoned (I think that Mary has put in her novel him getting abandoned because her father abandoned her because he didn’t like the person who she was going to get married to) so he sets of to see what the world has to offer. As the monster comes across a village that has just been outrun with a deadly disease called colleria so when the villages see him they think that he brought it in and they beat. He turns to find Victor and make him pay for bring him back ugly. The monster finds a place to hide from all the people and he helps out a family by helping them with their farm work and he learns to read and write. In the family there is a blind man the monster is very protective over the blind man and the man come for the tax on the house where they live and he beats the blind man up but then the monster beats up the tax man and the little girl with the blind man screams and the mum and dad hears meanwhile the blind man and the monster
He had asked Victor to create him another monster as a companion and if he doesn’t keep his promise, then he will be miserable. When Victor goes to England with the intention of creating this promised monster, his friend Henry follows him. After several months, Victor destroys the half created creature and this upsets the monster very much so because he wants this companion. When he kills Henry, the monster distinctly planned it so that Victor would be blamed for the murder. Through all this confusion on who killed Henry, Victor knew all along that the monster did it. At this point, Victor knew that he must return to Geneva to protect his family whom he loved very much (Shelley 181). Since this monster killed Henry, Victor knew that his family was now is in danger. The monster is very happy that Victor is having to suffer because, Victor is now feeling the loneliness that he feels all the time. Though the monster’s character is not evil, the pain he feels is what he wants his creator to feel. His revenge only increases throughout the book because he is only longing for a fellow companion that Victor can only give him, but yet he is choosing not to create it. The anger that is within the monster is only growing and this is increasing the possibilities of him hurting more
Mary Shelley in her book Frankenstein addresses numerous themes relevant to the current trends in society during that period. However, the novel has received criticism from numerous authors. This paper discusses Walter Scott’s critical analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in his Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Review of Frankenstein (1818).