Victor And Elizabeth Depicted In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Elizabeth is Victor’s lovely bride to be. They grow up together after Victor’s kind mother adopted her. Victor and Elizabeth fall in love and get married but at the honeymoon Elizabeth mets her death. She is murdered by Victors horrible creation and as Victor walks into the room after he hears his beloved scream he sees the monster with a smile on his face pointing at a dead Elizabeth.

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