Frankenstein summary by Marcelo Portela Barros https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd en-us 2023-02-06 17:30:29 UTC 2025-10-25 09:51:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Letter 4 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470484669 Robert Walton writes a letter to his sister reporting a strange event, as he and his crew are bound by ice at sea and see a gigantic man seated in a sledge guiding some dogs, later after they have freed their boats. They encounter another man later in a similar sled almost dying, but before he is taken in he asks where they are going, after hearing that it was the northern pole he promptly embarks. After saving him he says, upon being asked that he was seeking one who fled him, soon the writer of the letters becomes friends with the stranger. 8 days later The man seems to have been recovering, with the increasing affection between Robert and his friend, the man of the sled decides to tell Walton a tale, but he loses his composure and has to be calmed down over a few hours but did not tell the tale that day. 6 days later The man after a short discourse says that his story will be told by him the next day Walton decides to make the tale a manuscript and of that comes the story of Frankenstein.]]> 2023-02-06 17:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470484669 Chapter 5 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470486843 Frankenstein prepares himself to animate life; he checks everything to see if it’s perfect and starts, but the moment the thing he created is seen by him deeply disturbs him, so he runs away and sleeps, but has horrible nightmares. He is woken up by his creation seemingly trying to detain him, he runs to the courtyard and spends the night there in undeniable suffering. In the morning he starts walking with the only objective of getting away from the monster he created, in this path he finds Henry Clerval one his dearest friends, they talk about Victor’s family and friends and how Clerval came here to find Frankenstein. They go to the home of Victor and the creature has fled, but the scientist thinks he saw his creation and them and falls down in a fit, for several months Gervals treats him as he is appalled by a sickness that came with his scientific  pursuit. Clerval informs Frankenstein of a letter sent to him by his cousin and the chapter ends.


]]> 2023-02-06 17:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470486843 Letter 3 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470490553 He writes a letter to his sister telling he is fine and well advanced on his voyage. He also tells that his men are bold and firm of purpose. They have already reached a very high latitude, but it is the height of summer, the gales breathe a degree of renovating warmth, which helps him with speed and blows them towards the shores, something that he didn't expect. He also tells that no incidents have happened to them, just some griff gales.]]> 2023-02-06 17:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470490553 Letter 2 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470490860 In this letter, Robert Walton writes about his feelings and perceptions about the mission and the people that are with him there. Firstly, he talks about how lonely he feels. Walton mentions to his sister how he has no friends and his desire to be closer to his “mates”. After that, he starts talking about the story of his lieutenant and all the qualities he has and also about the other people that were there with him, but also making a correlation with his loneliness. He ends the letter talking directly to his sister about how he loves her and that he wants to see her again if he manages to complete his mission.


]]> 2023-02-06 17:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470490860 Letter 1 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470491127 Robert Walton sends a letter to his sister, Margaret, to tell her about his long and difficult voyage which is about to happen. He starts the letter by talking about Petersburgh's climate and compares it to where he is headed. R. Walton tells his sister how excited he is to go whale-fishing and also talks about the challenges he may face there. In the end, he warns her that he may or may not stay a long time not meeting her, because of his voyage.]]> 2023-02-06 17:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470491127 Chapter 4 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470491699 After having classes with Waldman, Victor became deeply absorbed in his studies related to natural philosophy and chemistry. He ignores his social life, friends, and family living far away in Genebra. He makes a rapid process since he is fascinated with how the human body is built and how it decays. After years of studying, he wants to take another step further into the issue: discover the secret of life. Hidden in his apartment, he begins the construction of an animate creature. With that, he neglects, even more, his friends and family, and later on, he becomes pale, obsessed, and lonely.


]]> 2023-02-06 17:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470491699 Chapter 3 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492015 When Victor was 17 years old, his parents wanted him to go study at the Ingolstadt University, but right before he prepared himself to go there, Elizabeth got the scarlet fever. Fortunately, she survived, but Victor’s mother also catches it and dies. Before her death, she said she wanted Elizabeth and Victor to get married. Days later, Victor goes to Ingelstadt to study in the desired university. When he arrives there, he meets with M. Krempe, who tells him that all the things he has studied until now were nonsense. After that, he watches a class of a chemistry professor (Waldman) who inspires him to continue his studies in sciences.]]> 2023-02-06 17:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492015 Chapter 2 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492179 In chapter 2, Victor basically talks about his relationship with his sister Elizabeth and his friend Henry Clerval. Elizabeth was adopted by the family while little and Victor has a very good relationship with her, they are very close. Henry is Victor's best friend, which he has known since little and continues to have a great relationship with.]]> 2023-02-06 17:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492179 Chapter 1 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492399 Victor Frenkinstain, says he was born in Naples and grew up in Geneva. His father, Alphonse, and his mother, Caroline, first became close when Alphonse's friend and Caroline's father, Beautfort, died. Later Alphonse and Caroline get married. 
Wanting a better climate, they moved to Italy for a short period. During this time, Victor was born, and was the only child for 5 year, until Caroline adopted beautiful blond orphan girl named Elizabeth.
]]> 2023-02-06 17:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492399 Chapter 6 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492806 Victor receives and reads the letter sent by his cousin, Elizabeth. In the letter, she talks about everyone and everything that had happened in Geneva. She also expresses her concerns about his illness and asks him to come back to visit the family as soon as possible. Victor's cousin talks about a girl, Justine, who joined the family once but returned due to her mother's passing. Later on, Frankenstein's health improves, and he introduces Henry to his university professors, but if he gets any contact with chemical substances, his illness worsens. He plans a trip to visit his family; however, it keeps getting delayed to climate issues. He then travels around the country alongside henry.]]> 2023-02-06 17:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2470492806 Chapter 7 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2479984723 The chapter starts with Victor receiving a letter from his father that talks about his brother’s death (William). His father also begs him to come back to Geneva after so much time missing to lightning everyone’s sadness at the moment. After that, he orders Henry to prepare his trip to Geneva. When they are close to arriving, a severe storm takes place and Victor sees a creature that looks like his creation (monster) from a distance, assuming that it was the responsable for William’s death. When he arrives at his father’s house, he meets Ernest, his father, and Elisabeth, who all accuse Justine, a close person to the Frankenstein family, to kill his brother. Even though he is not able to prove it, he knows that she did not kill William.]]> 2023-02-13 17:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2479984723 Chapter 11 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480003965 The monster tells his tale, he says he woke up in darkness and lack of understanding and fled to find shade in a forest near Ingolstadt, he ate some berries and drank from the river, then he slept. Waking up at night he was surprised with the moon, he sought more berries and found a giant coat to cover himself from the cold, he was confused by the multitude of things he felt. As the day passed the giant man started to become accustomed to his senses and started to distinguish things from one another. He discovered fire and how to use it by a campfire left by some beggars, it burnt him once but provided heat and better food, however ailment was still scarce. The monster wandered to the mountains and found a hovel where he found a hut where a shepherd resided. The worker fled, but the giant man was still delighted with the hut, there he found fire and food which he devoured and then slept on some straw. In the morning he walked again for several hours until he reached a village, but the people of the village attacked him and then he fled, and in front of a cottage in which he stayed, desolated by his situation and humanity.
He did not dare enter the cottage in fear, but managed to find a loaf of bread and a cup to drink water, he saw a man but the man did not see him, the giant stayed warm in the proximity to the cottage’s chimney. Through a small fissure he saw a girl of a gentle nature, who worked with the man on the farm around the giant. Through a small crack he could now see the inside of the cottage, seeing a tidy but bare house were he saw and heard the girl sing and man play an instrument, something so beautiful that the monster could not even understand, after that the farm man and the girl prepared food and ate, the giant man observed with glee the contrast between the young woman and the farm man that was very old. The man played and the woman sang again, they read out loud and went to sleep, observing that the monster decided to rest. 


]]> 2023-02-13 17:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480003965 Chapter 9 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480050044 Victor feels extreme guilty and sadness for Justine’s death. He becomes much more depressed, and he blames himself for all of this situation, with the creation of the monster. He wanted to help people, to build life, not destroy it. As his thoughts were getting heavy, he began boating on the nearby Geneva Lake. There he seeks for refuge and think’s about everything that’s is happening. He even thinks of suicide, however he couldn’t think about the fact of abandoning Elizabeth, his father and all of his family, especially with the monster out there. Victor’s father is the one who notices the most that he is deeply depressed, and with that, in the hopes of cheering his son, he takes the family for a trip in the Chamounix, which is the nearby mountains. Victor is able to heal a bit of his depression and grief there.

]]> 2023-02-13 18:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480050044 Chapter 10 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480068515 In chapter 10, Victor gets to the village of Chamounix and describes his first day there, on which he meets the monster again. The monster goes to talk to him in peace to ask Victor to give him a meaning in life, a reason to live since he was his creator, and also claims he has killed no one, meaning William. The monster then asks Victor to listen to his tale so he can understand how he is worthy of this.]]> 2023-02-13 18:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480068515 Chapter 8 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480071450 Victor wanted to confess in Justine’s place, but as he was absent, his confession would sound like nonsense 
Justine remains innocent but can’t explain Williams portrait of his mother ended in her pocket and she is sentenced to death. 
Victor went to talk with a person of the court that says that Justine had already confessed, but later Victor and Elizabeth visited her in prison and found out that she just confessed because she felt pressured
The next day Justine dies, and Victor feels very guilty for it. 
]]> 2023-02-13 18:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2480071450 Chapter 15 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2487804135 In chapter 15, the monster tells that he found a leathern portmanteau on the ground, containing several articles of dress and some books. He then studies it and continues to question his existence. He describes the passage of the seasons and at one point he decides to meet the cottagers. He plans the meeting throughly but it still fails and ends up on literal disaster, being beaten by Felix.]]> 2023-02-19 23:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2487804135 Chapter 16 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2496760591 In this chpater, the monster again talks about his life and how he got there. Firstly, he mentions the family that he has been watching for a long time and, since they rejected him, he leaves the place he was hiding and aims to get to Geneva, the town that Victor, his creator, supposedly was. In this journey, he saves a kid from drowning in river, although she rejects him and someone shoots him. He then says he does not trust mankind anymore and will avenge everything that humanity has done to him. When reaching Geneva, he finds Victor’s brother, William, and kills him because of his anger towards Victor and the human kind, taking a photo (locket) with Victor’s mother in it from his pocket. After that, he find a woman, Justine, sleeping. He then puts the photo he found in her pocket and gets out of that place.]]> 2023-02-27 17:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2496760591 Chapter 12 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2496794967 The big man woke up on the straw he slept contemplating on the kindness of the people he was observing, but not daring to join them in fear. The young woman prepared the cottage and the food. The routine was the same as the last day. The young man and woman working and the old man that the monster perceived was blind contemplated and played his instrument. Sometimes the young men and women cried  as if they were sad. With all their apparent luxury at least compared to the big man they did not have a reason to be sad and that confused him. He took some time to discover that the first cause was poverty and hunger. The monster sometimes cut wood for them at night. It surprised the villagers and made them happy. The big man discovered talk and words and was surprised and intrigued by it and was baffled every time he tried it. The monster learnt several words and names some he could not use. The narrator tells about how the youth were less cheerful than the old man who tried to cheer them aways. He then describes how they survived and tried to stay happy through poverty and want. The young man called Felix sometimes worked in the garden or in neighboring farms. He observes Felix reading to the old man and  the young woman Agatha and starts to understand how it works through observation and thinking. The monster saw himself in a puddle and was horrified. As the summer came the situation of the farmers got better as Felix found more jobs and new plants sprouted. The narrator described that he observed them in the morning, slept, observed them again and if the night was illuminated by the moon he collected wood, cleared the snow and did the tasks he saw Felix doing. Narrator describes  how he yearned to understand them and reveal himself to them, seeing them as superior beings. The big man started to practice language and found himself being able to speak outhough in an unrefined form. Spring came, turning everything more beautiful and wholesome and bringing hope to the monster who did not know what was coming for him.


]]> 2023-02-27 18:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2496794967 Chapter 17 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2501763082 In this chapter, the monster finished his tale and then asks Victor to creat a female version of him so that they can be “horrendous” together. He claims that this way he would be happy because he wouldn’t be alone, but Frankenstein refuses to attend to his wish. He then changes his mind, and says he will do it, changing it again later and concluding that he will create a female for the monster.]]> 2023-03-02 21:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2501763082 Chapter 14 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2504826544 The monster tells Victor the story of the cottagers, the family he has been with, since he began listening and learning their language. The old man’s name was De Lacey, he was from a very noble family, and so were his children, Felix and Agatha, who had important positions in society. The source of all of their troubles came from Safie’s father, a merchant from Constantinople living in Paris, who was in prison accused of a crime he didn’t commit, but mostly due to his ethnicity, skin color, and religion. The French government then sent him to prison. Felix was in love with Safie, so he begins talking to her father through a window, and he promises the older man to get him out of there. If that happens, Safie’s father would allow the boy to have his daughter in marriage. Felix gets passports for everyone (himself, Agatha, De Lacey, Safie, and her father). He busts Safie’s father out of prison and they run away. De Lacey and Agatha go to Germany, but the other three stay together. 
The French government discovers the plot, and Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey were exiled from France and had their fortunes confiscated. They lived in Germany, the location of the monster's discovery. The Turk attempted to force Safie to return to Constantinople, but she escaped with some money and information about Felix's whereabouts.]]> 2023-03-06 09:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2504826544 Chapter 18 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505032063 Victor begins the creation of a new female monster. Therefore, he needs more studies to build a new creature, he then says he has to travel to England. Alphonse notices that his son is nervous and sad again. He then suggests he should marry Elizabeth since the worries of his life might be the fact of not having a family yet. Victor says he will marry Elizabeth as soon as he arrives from his trip, and his father agrees. 
Victor, alongside Henry, goes to England to continue their studies so a new creature can be built]]> 2023-03-06 11:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505032063 Chapter 19 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505564853 In this chapter, both Victor and Henry decide to spend the winter in the UK to visit England and Scottland. They first arrive in London, where they decide their plans. Their trip makes Henry happy. However, Victor tries to get the creature he created out of his head (since he was getting paranoid about the monster following them there) and focus on getting scientific information for himself. When they both get to Scottland, Victor tells Henry to continue his travel without him, so he could stop worrying about him. When Victor arrives at the Orkneys, islands of the Scottish coast, he rents a hut and begins to start a new project of creating a second living creature. The life on the island Victor was was difficult, with the few people living there having little resources only enough to sustain themselves, since these had to be brought from the mainland. With that, Victor continues his project, even though he feels sick and isolated from the rest of the world and does not wish to continue it.


]]> 2023-03-06 17:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505564853 Chapter 21 marceloportelacrocodile161007 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505582741 Frankenstein is brought to the magistrate, being accused of murdering a young man by strangulation, the fisherman who found the body says that they saw Victor’s boat with one person inside close to the scene of the murder. Frankensteing is brought to the body so they can evaluate his response to seeing it, it was Henry Clerval his dearest friend, seeing him like this brings a big reaction that condemns him as if he did the murder, with Victor having strong convulsions after a big exclamation. The doctor was thrown into a two month fever in which he rambles and hallucinates. After those two months he wakes up in prison, arrested for the murder   he did not do, by waking up he gets the attention of a nurse who was caring for him, they talk about the situation that happened with her saying that Victor should be dead because he killed Clerva. After this he falls ill again he learns that the kindness of the magistrate Mr. Kirwin made it possible for Frankenstein to be alive. The magistrate comes into the cell to talk to Victor, Mr Kirwin shows undeniable sympathy to the doctor and explains how unfortunate the situation was and that he thought Frankenstein was not the murderer. He says that he read the papers Victor had and sent a letter to his family and that Frankenstain’s father was waiting to see him. The doctor talks with his father about something that greatly assures him. He improves his health and is proven not guilty and then is freed. In liberation he talks with his father who tries to convince him to go back to Geneva. Frankenstein decides to go back, they go by boat getting off Ireland into its shores, Victor is but a shell of a man and depends on medicine to survive, aways haunted in both while awake and sleeping.


]]> 2023-03-06 18:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505582741 Chapter 13 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505595704
A beautiful Arabian girl, called Safie, arrives at the cottage, the family's mood, which Felixs in particular brightens. Safie doesn't know how to speak the family's language so Felix helps her learn it. As Safie learns the language, the monster does the same, which is disgusted that a race as noble as humanity is able to do so evil. The monster also learns, and realizes  that he is by himself, and will never have a family or something like it.  ]]> 2023-03-06 18:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505595704 Chapter 20 https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505596166 Victor was afraid that the new creature might refuse to live away from humans, or even worse, that the monsters would make a race of devils. Then he sees the monster grinning in joy, because of each others company. The monster disappears, but hours later they return to Victor’s lab. Victor was afraid of the monsters killing him. Victors received a letter warning him to resume his travels, then he gets all his material and went into the ocean. Victors took a nap, and woke up into a rough weather and couldn’t get back to shore, but soon the weather got better. And when he lands he was being a suspect of a murder. ]]> 2023-03-06 18:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/marceloportelacrocodile161007/8e9xxgjpf0ae4fcd/wish/2505596166