Frankenstein-by Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein has always been fascinated by nature. By the time he was in his
late teens he was at a school of science. This school sparked his obsession with
recreating human life. This was not an easy task because of the minuteness of the
organs, etc, which forced him to design an oversized human, about eight feet tall. After
many unhealthy months of labor, he finally achieved his goal. The hideous creature sat
up and grinned at Victor. Victor fled immediately.
When he returned to his chamber he was happy to not find the monster. Two years passed
and he got a letter from his father telling him his youngest brother, William, had been
murdered. He began his miserable trip back home. On the way home he saw a giant beast
running from a barn. He realized this was his creation and he was the murderer. An
innocent woman (framed by the Monster) and a great friend of Elizabeth (Victor's cousin
and future wife), was executed for the murder. This devastated the family (especially
Victor, who accused himself). He set of to put an end to this creation.
Victor finally met up with his monster in the mountains near a glacier. Here he
listened to the monster's story. How he studied and grew to love this family living in a
cottage. He wanted so immensely to be a part of their love and smiles. He learned their
language and how to write (by listening to them teach an Arabian relative). After a very
long time he walked into the cottage when only the blind old man was there and tried to
befriend him. He was very persuasive until the children and the woman returned. The boy
attacked the Monster. He could have killed the boy, but, out of love, ran. The family
soon moved leaving the Monster so incredibly depressed and heart-broken that he suddenly
hated the human kind. But, most of all, he hated his creator for making in the first
place. He set out to Geneva, where he know Victor lived.
He was almost there when he found a little boy. He thought he could make friends with
him (because of his young, unprejudiced mind) until he discovered he was the son of his
hated creator. He murdered him, and took the boy's locket and put it in the pocket of
the soon-to-be-executed woman sleeping in a barn.
At the conclusion of his story he persuaded Frankenstein to create a female for him. In
the middle of Victor's progress of making the female he stopped, realizing what could
happen if he finished, and destroyed his work. This angered the Monster so greatly that
he swore to make Frankenstein the most miserable person in the world. He murdered
Frankenstein's best friend Henry Cerval, and nearly has Frankenstein executed for the
murder. He waited for the wedding night of Victor and Elizabeth and murdered Elizabeth
that night. Victor's father was so morbidly depressed soon died. The only reason
Frankenstein didn't kill himself was out of the rage and thirst to get a bitter revenge
on this evil creation.
He pursued him up into the north and was, after a very long chase on dog-sleds, was
nearly killed by breaking ice and rescued by a ship. He laid there and recovered from
his sickness enough to tell his entire tale to Robert Walton. He quickly got very sick
and eventually died. That night Frankenstein's monster came to see him in his death-bed.
He met Walton, who hated him very much, and told him of the rage he felt, and how his
objective was nearly over.. all he has to do now is kill himself. He would do this by
going up to the northern-most part of the globe (where no one could see him) and set fire
to his miserable self. He leapt out of the boat window onto some ice and disappeared
into the darkness.
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