https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje Chapter 1 en-us 2017-02-02 15:20:22 UTC 2026-02-05 04:06:26 UTC hello@padlet.com marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151175933 1) In a series of letters, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister back in England the progress of his dangerous mission. Successful early on, the mission is soon interrupted by seas full of impassable ice. Trapped, Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling by dog-drawn sledge across the ice and is weakened by the cold. Walton takes him aboard ship, helps nurse him back to health, and hears the fantastic tale of the monster that Frankenstein created.
2) Victor first describes his early life in Geneva. At the end of a blissful childhood spent in the company of Elizabeth Lavenza (his cousin in the 1818 edition, his adopted sister in the 1831 edition) and friend Henry Clerval, Victor enters the university of Ingolstadt to study natural philosophy and chemistry. There, he is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life and, after several years of research, becomes convinced that he has found it.
3) Armed with the knowledge he has long been seeking, Victor spends months feverishly fashioning a creature out of old body parts. One climactic night, in the secrecy of his apartment, he brings his creation to life. When he looks at the monstrosity that he has created, however, the sight horrifies him. After a fitful night of sleep, interrupted by the specter of the monster looming over him, he runs into the streets, eventually wandering in remorse. Victor runs into Henry, who has come to study at the university, and he takes his friend back to his apartment. Though the monster is gone, Victor falls into a feverish illness.
4) Sickened by his horrific deed, Victor prepares to return to Geneva, to his family, and to health. Just before departing Ingolstadt, however, he receives a letter from his father informing him that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. Grief-stricken, Victor hurries home. While passing through the woods where William was strangled, he catches sight of the monster and becomes convinced that the monster is his brother’s murderer. Arriving in Geneva, Victor finds that Justine Moritz, a kind, gentle girl who had been adopted by the Frankenstein household, has been accused. She is tried, condemned, and executed, despite her assertions of innocence. Victor grows despondent, guilty with the knowledge that the monster he has created bears responsibility for the death of two innocent loved ones.
5) Hoping to ease his grief, Victor takes a vacation to the mountains. While he is alone one day, crossing an enormous glacier, the monster approaches him. The monster admits to the murder of William but begs for understanding. Lonely, shunned, and forlorn, he says that he struck out at William in a desperate attempt to injure Victor, his cruel creator. The monster begs Victor to create a mate for him, a monster equally grotesque to serve as his sole companion.
6) Victor refuses at first, horrified by the prospect of creating a second monster. The monster is eloquent and persuasive, however, and he eventually convinces Victor. After returning to Geneva, Victor heads for England, accompanied by Henry, to gather information for the creation of a female monster. Leaving Henry in Scotland, he secludes himself on a desolate island in the Orkneys and works reluctantly at repeating his first success. One night, struck by doubts about the morality of his actions, Victor glances out the window to see the monster glaring in at him with a frightening grin. Horrified by the possible consequences of his work, Victor destroys his new creation. The monster, enraged, vows revenge, swearing that he will be with Victor on Victor’s wedding night.
7) Later that night, Victor takes a boat out onto a lake and dumps the remains of the second creature in the water. The wind picks up and prevents him from returning to the island. In the morning, he finds himself ashore near an unknown town. Upon landing, he is arrested and informed that he will be tried for a murder discovered the previous night. Victor denies any knowledge of the murder, but when shown the body, he is shocked to behold his friend Henry Clerval, with the mark of the monster’s fingers on his neck. Victor falls ill, raving and feverish, and is kept in prison until his recovery, after which he is acquitted of the crime.
8) Shortly after returning to Geneva with his father, Victor marries Elizabeth. He fears the monster’s warning and suspects that he will be murdered on his wedding night. To be cautious, he sends Elizabeth away to wait for him. While he awaits the monster, he hears Elizabeth scream and realizes that the monster had been hinting at killing his new bride, not himself. Victor returns home to his father, who dies of grief a short time later. Victor vows to devote the rest of his life to finding the monster and exacting his revenge, and he soon departs to begin his quest.
9) Victor tracks the monster ever northward into the ice. In a dogsled chase, Victor almost catches up with the monster, but the sea beneath them swells and the ice breaks, leaving an unbridgeable gap between them. At this point, Walton encounters Victor, and the narrative catches up to the time of Walton’s fourth letter to his sister.
10) Walton tells the remainder of the story in another series of letters to his sister. Victor, already ill when the two men meet, worsens and dies shortly thereafter. When Walton returns, several days later, to the room in which the body lies, he is startled to see the monster weeping over Victor. The monster tells Walton of his immense solitude, suffering, hatred, and remorse. Finally the monster burns himself.]]> 2017-02-02 15:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151175933 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151182033 In the initial part Dr. Frankenstein tells us something about his childhood and how his parents had met each other. 
His father, although as of yet unnamed, is Alphonse Frankenstein, who was involved heavily in the affairs of his country and thus delayed marriage until late in life. Alphonse quits public life to become a father and husband.
Victor's father and Mr. Beaufort, his mother Caroline's father, had a congenial relationship. Mr. Beaufort and his daughter move from Geneva to Lucerne, Switzerland to seek refuge from poverty and a damaged reputation. Alphonse sets out to aid his lost friend to "begin the world again through his credit and assistance."
While in Lucerne, Beaufort had saved a small amount of money and had recovered his reputation somewhat, but he became ill and within a few months had died. When Alphonse finds the Beaufort home, he discovers an impoverished Caroline grieving at her father's coffin. Alphonse gives his friend a decent burial and sends Caroline to his family in Geneva to recover. During a two-year period, Alphonse visits Caroline and they eventually became husband and wife.
Seeking a better climate, the couple moves to Italy for a short period. During this time, Victor was born and lavished with attention. He was their only child for five years until Caroline comes across an impoverished family in need of help. She falls for a beautiful little girl who is Victor's age and asks the family if she could adopt her. The little girl, Elizabeth, becomes Victor's adopted cousin and playmate]]> 2017-02-02 15:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151182033 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151184979 Mary Shelley seems to pull her own experiences from childhood into the writing of Victor's background, which is the topic of this chapter. Mary Shelley came from a family of half siblings and a stepmother; Victor's family includes his two brothers and an adopted "cousin" Elizabeth. Mary's mother and Victor's mother also share an interest in visiting the poor. The care for the poor and the uneducated was a theme in Mary Wollestonecraft's life. Also, note that Elizabeth's mother and Mary's died during childbirth.
Elizabeth is a beautiful and striking child."Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth," much like Mary Shelley's own mother, Mary Wollestonecraft, had done. Elizabeth is seen not as a mere orphan, but as a child the Frankenstein's had wanted for their own. Victor sees Elizabeth as a "pretty present" from his parents. Victor tells how Elizabeth was so much more than family to him; she was "more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only." ]]> 2017-02-02 15:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151184979 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151195244 2017-02-02 16:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151195244 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151196600 2017-02-02 16:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/151196600 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152319122 2017-02-07 22:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152319122 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152319384 1- use of technology for good or evil purposes and the invasion of technology into modern life
2- Prejudices of society because of our appearance and the treatment of poor or uneducated people
3- violation of nature laws]]> 2017-02-07 22:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152319384 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152843487 Right to self-determination
Right to liberty
Right to due process of law
Right to freedom of movement
Right to freedom of thought
Right to freedom of religion
Right to freedom of expression
Right to peaceful assembly
Right to freedom of association]]> 2017-02-09 17:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152843487 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152848082 1) subsistence
 : physical and mental health
, food, shelter, work
, feed, clothe, rest, work
, living environment, social setting
2) protection
 : care, adaptability, autonomy
, social security, health systems, work
, co-operate, plan, take care of, help
, social environment, dwelling
3) affection
 : respect, sense of humour, generosity, sensuality
, friendships, family, relationships with nature
, share, take care of, express emotions
, privacy, intimate spaces of togetherness
4) understanding
 : critical capacity, curiosity, intuition
, literature, teachers, policies, educational
 analysis , study, meditate, investigate,
 schools, families, universities, communities
5) participation
 :receptiveness, dedication, sense of humour
, responsibilities, duties, work, rights
, cooperate, dissent, express opinions
, associations, parties, churches, neighbourhoods 
6) leisure
 : imagination, tranquility, spontaneity
, games, parties, peace of mind
, day-dream, remember, relax, have fun
, landscapes, intimate spaces, places to be alone
7) creation
 : imagination, boldness, inventiveness, curiosity
, fabilities, skills, work, techniques
, invent, build, design, work, compose, interpret
, spaces for expression, workshops, audiences
8) identity
 : sense of belonging, self-esteem, consistency
, language, religions, work, customs, values, norms
, get to know oneself, grow, commit oneself
, places one belongs to, everyday settings
9) freedom : autonomy, passion, self-esteem, open-mindedness
, equal rights
, dissent, choose, run risks, develop awareness
, go anywhere]]> 2017-02-09 17:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/152848082 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153650076 2017-02-14 09:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153650076 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153650226 2017-02-14 09:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153650226 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153893800 Frankenstein opens with a preface, signed by Mary Shelley but commonly supposed to have been written by her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It states that he novel itself begins with a series of letters from the explorer Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville. Walton, a well-to-do Englishman with a passion for seafaring, is the captain of a ship headed on a dangerous voyage to the North Pole. In the first letter, he tells his sister of the preparations leading up to his departure and of the desire burning in him to accomplish “some great purpose”—discovering a northern passage to the Pacific, revealing the source of the Earth’s magnetism, or simply setting foot on undiscovered territory.]]> 2017-02-14 23:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153893800 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153893975 In the second letter, Walton bemoans his lack of friends. He feels lonely and isolated, too sophisticated to find comfort in his shipmates and too uneducated to find a sensitive soul with whom to share his dreams. He shows himself a Romantic, with his “love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous,” which pushes him along the perilous, lonely pathway he has chosen. In the brief third letter, Walton tells his sister that his ship has set sail and that he has full confidence that he will achieve his aim.]]> 2017-02-14 23:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153893975 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153894021 In the fourth letter, the ship stalls between huge sheets of ice, and Walton and his men spot a sledge guided by a gigantic creature about half a mile away. The next morning, they encounter another sledge stranded on an ice floe. All but one of the dogs drawing the sledge is dead, and the man on the sledge—not the man seen the night before—is emaciated, weak, and starving. Despite his condition, the man refuses to board the ship until Walton tells him that it is heading north. The stranger spends two days recovering, nursed by the crew, before he can speak. The crew is burning with curiosity, but Walton, aware of the man’s still-fragile state, prevents his men from burdening the stranger with questions. As time passes, Walton and the stranger become friends, and the stranger eventually consents to tell Walton his story. At the end of the fourth letter, Walton states that the visitor will commence his narrative the next day; Walton’s framing narrative ends and the stranger’s begins.]]> 2017-02-14 23:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/153894021 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/155024949 In the novel, the brilliant but impetuous young scientist Victor Frankenstein succeeds at creating life. Once his creation breathes his first breath, however, Victor is horrified by what he's made, and he flees. The creature must fend for himself, with no help or companionship. He manages to learn customs and language from a family he observes as he hides out in some remote woods. He grows to love this family, and one day summons the nerve to approach them. He is violently rebuked, however, and is subsequently assailed by another man--all for being misshapen and different. From this point onward, the creature vows revenge against humanity.]]> 2017-02-20 22:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/155024949 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/155026084 Cliffnotes.com
At first I scored 80%]]> 2017-02-20 23:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/155026084 marta_ravenna12 https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/155223793 This is one of the best horror classics! As a non-horror fan, I can honestly say that this film blew me away, from the great tone, to the great acting, to the fantastic camerawork, it just adds to the perfection of the story. Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster that has lived on from generation to generation and even with an age of 90 years, the monster is quite terrifying. Although it is not without it's slow moments, I was so invested in the story that the funny practical effects that don't really hold up, didn't even phase me. I was drawn into this story until the very last moment, which is extremely intense by the way. Over time, films like these can degrade themselves, and to some, it definitely will, but "Frankenstein" is still fantastic!
SECOND REVIEW
A timeless classic, perhaps the most notable and influential of the Universal monsters, and even if more amusing than terrifying for today's standards, it remains a striking experience, with stunning visuals that owe their inspiration to German Expressionism.]]> 2017-02-21 17:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/marta_ravenna12/tkqye7qe9wje/wish/155223793