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This is who all the letters are addressed to and he always confides in her and tells her the story about Frankenstein.

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The Captain is turning around to go back to England and Frankenstein died on the ship still wanting Vengence. Later his creature comes to say goodbye and is supposedly going to burn himself.

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“I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings and allowed me to be calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion.”

“But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being”

“I was cursed by some devil and carried about with me my eternal hell; yet still a spirit of good followed and directed my steps and when I most murmured would suddenly extricate me from seemingly insurmountable difficulties.”

“My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy.”

“Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance; again do I de- vote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!”

Victor’s creation is dragging him on. Purposely leaving clues and trails for the chase. Watching his opponent slowly become weaker and weaker.

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“I had been calm during the day, but so soon as night ob- scured the shapes of objects, a thousand fears arose in my mind. I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.”

“when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired. As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind,”

“The murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips.”

“A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.”

“As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect on their cause—the monster whom I had created, the miserable daemon whom I had sent abroad into the world for my destruction”

I thought it was clever because the bride wears a veil and is the one murdered. And her murder is supposed to be some horrible thing even though Victor could’ve prevented it.

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“I had unchained an enemy among them whose joy it was to shed their blood and to revel in their groans.”

“But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case? “

“If he were vanquished, I should be a free man. Alas! What freedom? Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.”

“He had vowed *to be with me on my wedding-night*, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats”

“I have one secret, Elizabeth, a dreadful one; when revealed to you, it will chill your frame with horror, and then, far from being surprised at my misery, you will only wonder that I survive what I have endured. I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our mar- riage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confidence between us. But until then, I conjure you, do not mention or allude to it”

“Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself forever from my native coun- try and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage.”

Victor thinks that the monster means he will kill him on his wedding night and prepares himself for death. Even though you’d think he’d be ready for it.

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“‘My father!’ cried I, while every feature and every muscle was relaxed from anguish to pleasure. ‘Is my father indeed come? How kind, how very kind! But where is he, why does he not hasten to me?’”

“My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country. “

“My father tried to awaken in me the feelings of affection. He talked of Geneva, which I should soon visit, of Elizabeth and Ernest; but these words only drew deep groans from me.”

“My father still desired to delay our departure, fearful that I could not sustain the fatigues of a journey, for I was a shattered wreck the shadow of a human being.”

In this chapter you really see the Father and son bond between Victor and his dad.

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“I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness”

“I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the daemon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me. Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfillment of my promise.”

“I thought with a sen- sation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch saw me destroy the crea- ture on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.”

Victor breaks his promise to the monster because he starts to think of the worst possibilities and later causes all the death around him.

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Wow these chapters are boring. Victor won’t stop being a bigger baby then Romeo. He’s depressed and doesn’t see happiness where his friend does and this whole chapter is him complaining and scenery. I really tried coming up with a clever name for these two but I just couldn’t.

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"You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being” pg 129

"”I do refuse it,” I replied; “and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.” Pg 129

"”I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place in the neighborhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile”” pg 132

This chapter is just the pleas from the monster begging Victor to make another creature like him. Victor finally decides to do as his monster requests.

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“ I could with pleasure have destroyed the cot- tage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.” Pg 121

“‘I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.” Pg 123

“Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and pas- sions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.” Pg 124

“‘This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. In- flamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” pg 125

“I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exulta- tion and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, ‘I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.’” Pg 127

Victor’s monster is just beginning to feel rage. And it is a common saying that you’re seeing red when you’re angry. The monster even describes being overwhelmed with this anger.

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“‘My heart beat quick; this was the hour and moment of trial, which would decide my hopes or realize my fears.” Pg 118

“‘‘Enter,’ said De Lacey, ‘and I will try in what manner I can to relieve your wants; but, unfortunately, my children are from home, and as I am blind, I am afraid I shall find it difficult to procure food for you.’” Pg 119

“‘‘Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfor- tunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair.’” Pg 119

“I am blind and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your words which persuades me that you are sincere. I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.’” Pg 120

The blind man becomes a quick friend of the monster because he is kind and speaks to the creature. He also gives great advice but is soon startled when his children come home and get rid of the monster.

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A Story within a Story in a story told by another(Chapter XIV)

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A Story within a Story in a story told by another(Chapter XIV)

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That’s what this chapter literally is. It it Felix’s story told by the monster that is told by Victor which he is tellinging to a guy in a boat.

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“she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.” Pg 106

“‘My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I im- proved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I com- prehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.” Pg 106

“For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with dis- gust and loathing.” Pg 107

“‘Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.” Pg 107

The creature begins to learn and understand human culture as he is secretly taught by the cottage people.

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“‘This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been ac- customed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.” Pg 100

“‘I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours. I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing suffi- cient for the consumption of several days” pg 100

“When I returned, as of- ten as it was necessary, I cleared their path from the snow and performed those offices that I had seen done by Felix. I afterwards found that these labours, performed by an in- visible hand, greatly astonished them; and once or twice I heard them, on these occasions, utter the words ‘good spirit,’ ‘wonderful’; but I did not then understand the signi- fication of these terms.” Pg 103

To the people who live in the cottage, the monster is an invisible hand.

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“A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.” Pg 92

“‘Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure.” Pg 92

“No distinct ideas occupied my mind; all was confused. I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness; innumerable sounds rang in my ears, and on all sides various scents sa- luted me; the only object that I could distinguish was the bright moon, and I fixed my eyes on that with pleasure.” Pg 93

“‘One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. “ pg 93

“ I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like. Then, overcome by fatigue, I lay down among some straw and fell asleep.” Pg 95

“I felt sensations of a peculiar and over- powering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.” Pg 97

The Monster is learning how to feel and survive and he is notorious later in the book for his bible referencing so I figured his beginning should be named the same thing as the Bible’s beginning.

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“If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.’” Pg 89

“ I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” Pg 89

“I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone?” Pg 89

“These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings.” Pg 90

“The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!” Pg 90

Frakenstein’s Creature begs to be listened to and ultimately uses man’s law to be heard.

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Be Careful What You Wish For (Chapter IX)

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Be Careful What You Wish For (Chapter IX)

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“I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever.” Pg 81

“I thought also of my father and surviving brother; should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them?” Pg 81

“When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes be- came inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.” Pg 81

“I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.” Pg 82

“I found myself fettered again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection. Then I spurred on my animal, striving so to for- get the world, my fears, and more than all, myself—or, in a more desperate fashion, I alighted and threw myself on the grass, weighed down by horror and despair.” Pg 84

Victor wishes and dreams of many things in this chapter some cause by grief others fueled by rage. He wished to join a cult and dance to children’s music but he also wished to kill and I think that this is going to be his downfall.

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Guilty until Proven Innocent (Chapter VIII)

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Guilty until Proven Innocent (Chapter VIII)

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"Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.” Pg 73

“A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.“ pg 73

“The picture was then produced which the servant had found in her pocket; and when Elizabeth, in a faltering voice, proved that it was the same which, an hour before the child had been missed, she had placed round his neck, a murmur of horror and in- dignation filled the court.”pg 74

“A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth’s simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous interference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.”pg 76

“She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!”pg 79

Justine never had a chance. Everyone decided she was guilty before the trial. The title being a spin on our law that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Since Justine was decided guilty it was nearly impossible to prove her innocence.

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“‘The murderer discovered! Good God! how can that be? who could attempt to pursue him? It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a moun- tain-stream with a straw. I saw him too; he was free last night!’” Pg 70

“Indeed, who would credit that Justine Moritz, who was so amiable, and fond of all the family, could suddenly become so capable of so frightful, so appall- ing a crime?’” Pg 71

“‘No one did at first; but several circumstances came out, that have almost forced conviction upon us; and her own behaviour has been so confused, as to add to the evidence of facts a weight that, I fear, leaves no hope for doubt. But she will be tried to-day, and you will then hear all.’” Pg 71

“‘You are all mistaken; I know the mur- derer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent.’” Pg 71

A scapegoat is someone accused of a crime because they didn’t know who really did it. Justine became a scapegoat because the monster planted evidence on her and there was no one else to blame.

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“You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account. You are forbidden to write—to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions.” Pg 57

“In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained. Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my mis- fortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy. When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.” Pg 60

“M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh, blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.” Pg 61

“Study had before secluded me from the inter- course of my fellow creatures and rendered me unsocial, but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature and the cheerful fac- es of children.” Pg 63

The expression not playing with a full deck refers to people mentally unstable and through out this chapter we learn how Victor was thrown off his hinges. And as the chapter progresses his mental health gets better with the help of Clerval.

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Life and Death and Love and Birth and Peace and War on the Planet Earth (Chapter V)

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Life and Death and Love and Birth and Peace and War on the Planet Earth (Chapter V)

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"With anxiety that almost amounted to agony” pg 51

"I saw the full yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.” Pg 51

"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.” Pg 51

"His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.” Pg 51

"A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.” Pg 52

"I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street,” pg 53

"I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty; and my bedroom was freed from its hideous guest. I could hardly believe that so great a good fortune could have befallen me; but when I became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy, and ran down to Clerval.” Pg 54

The title is lyrics that come from a song. The title has three antonyms although people would argue on how love and birth are antonyms. It’s easier to see them as antonyms if you look at it through a mother with postpartum depression. She would see how her baby was hatred compared to love. Victor seems to experience something like this when he sees his creature come to life. He chose what he thought the best parts and didn’t realize he thought it was ugly until is was alive. Most people would be happy to have success where as he went to bed to try and forget. Then when he runs away he stands where carriages come through that I think is him unconsciously trying to kill himself. He hen he gets back and sees his creation is missing rather then worry he rejoices.

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"From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation.” Pg 45

"As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid.” Pg 45

"I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay.” Pg 46

"My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.” Pg 48

"The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was the most beautiful season;...but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.” Pg 49

"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainty unlawful.” Pg 50

His making of the creature by his definition is unlawful. Earlier in the book he speaks about how much he loved the seasons but while trying to create life he completely ignores a beautiful summer and doesn’t write his family which he clearly loves. But his unlawful study brings him pleasure. He slaved for a long time just to see the end result. He has passion in finishing this.

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the first misfortune of my life occurred—an omen, as it were, of my future misery. Eliza- beth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger.” Pg 38

“She died calmly, and her countenance expressed affec- tion even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. “ pg 38

“I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me. I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled.” Pg 39

This is the first death in Victor’s life and he now reflects on it as a bad omen.

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I can Smell the Storm Coming(Chapter II)

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I can Smell the Storm Coming(Chapter II)

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"deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.” pg 32

"Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature,”  pg 32

"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn;” pg 33

"I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of child hood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.” pg 34

"which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery...it became my torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.” pg 34

"It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.” pg 34

"accident again changedthe  current of my ideas.” pg 36

"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.” pg 37

"which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies.” pg 37

"It was thus that I was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution and happiness with their disregard.” pg 37

"Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction” pg 37

This chapter has a lot of foreshadowing to what Frankenstein calls his demise and his later creation. Naming this chapter the calm before the storm seemed too cliche and just didn’t stick. But you can smell when it’s going to rain like he pointed out all the times when things turned bad.

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"I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic” pg 27

"I, their eldest child, was born in Naples, and as an infant accompanied them in their rambles.” pg 29

"For a long time I was their only care.” pg 29

"I have a pretty present for my Victor” pg 31

This is the introductory chapter explaining how Victor came to be and his ancestry. It isn’t until the very last paragraph that we learn Victor’s name as well. I think a phrase like “Tis I, Victor” would come at the end of a long monologue and is the big show stopper revealing who the person was.