FRANKENSTEIN STUFF

Characters
Victor
Elizabeth
Frankenstein
Justine
Plot summary
Victor’s father sends a letter to him telling him to come home because his brother was murdered. Once he gets there the city gates are closed so he had to stay outside for a night. Out there he remembered that it’s been 6 years since he’s been home and 2 years since he left his creations. In the night he sees his creation between the lightning light. Once the monster sees him he runs off. Then victor begins to think that the murder of his brother was because of his creation. Victor knows that he cannot reveal the source of the crime without some serious inquiry about his creation. Thus, Victor is torn between revealing the monster and risking inquisition on his past or letting the criminal justice system free the accused. Once he is home he learns that Justine is accused for the murder because of the undeniable evidence. Justine is convicted guilty and goes to her death with no fear, leaving Victor to ponder the deaths of two innocent victims. He sinks into a deep depression from which he cannot escape. He tries boating on Lake Geneva and a trip into the Swiss Mountains. He escapes to the Chamounix valley region to rest and recover his senses. Victor takes a tour of a nearby mountain and glacier on Mount Montanvert to refresh his tortured soul. While on the glacier, the monster confronts his maker. Victor seems ready to engage in a combat to the death, but the monster convinces Victor to listen to his story. The two go to the monster's squalid hut on the mountain, and the monster begins to tell his tale. The monster begins his story by recalling his earliest memories and how he came to be. After fleeing the city and villages where he is not welcomed, the monster learns to live in the forest. Food is sometimes stolen, and shelter is scarce. He does manage to find a "hovel" attached to a small cottage. He fashions a way to see into the cottage and begins to observe the life of the De Lacey family — brother Felix, sister Agatha, and their blind father — who lives in the small home. The monster notices the care and concern the family has for each other, and he senses that there is a mood of despair among the younger family members. The family suffers from poverty and a lack of food. Originally a well-to-do family from France, the De Lacey's have been exiled from France to Germany. The monster learns the French language from the family and practices those words by himself. Desiring to keep his cottagers happy, the monster becomes an aid to the family by secretly hauling wood to the cottage and performing repairs, all under the cover of darkness. He begins to follow a routine of daily activity and time passes from winter to spring.
THEME
Don’t run away from you responsibilities and priorities because it will always come back to you. In Frankenstein victor left his creation and home and his obligations which came back to him in the form of guilt and suffrage.
Symbol
the De Lacey family
This family showed care and concern.