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Caroline and Victor's father get married
Page 32, Caroline's father dies and victor's father, who is caroline's fathers friend, marries her -
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Victor is born
Page 33, on page 33 at the beginning of paragraph 2 it describes that victor was born in Naples -
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Elisabeth gets adopted
Page 34, at the very bottom of page 34 elizabeth is adopted after victor's father found her playing with victor as an orphan. -
Period: 1 CE to 24
Frankenstein Chapters
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2
Victor meets Henry clerval
Page 36, At the very bottom of page 36 it describes henry clerval as one of victor's closest friends -
2
Victor meets Henry clerval
Victor discusses meeting henry clerval as he is telling us about how he and his family live isolated from the general population, and conduct themselves in the same manner around others. page 37 -
2
Victor discovers Cornelius Agrippa's theories
While telling the story to walton victor remembers how he found the teachings of agrippa and speculates if his father had told him why agrippa's theory was looked down upon, then victor wouldn't have endured all the misery. page 38 -
3
Victor leaves for ingolstadt
Page 44, victor leaves for college to familiarize himself with the customs of other countries -
3
Victor's Mother Dies
Page 42, Victor's mother dies while telling victor and elizabeth to marry. She died due to a sickness that elizabeth had -
3
Victor meets M. Waldman
Page 48, Victor meets his professor from who he learns in the future the uses of electricity to bring the dead back to life -
4
Victor begins to feel isolated
Page 55, Victor starts talking about how he hid from others as if he was guilty of a crime -
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Victor begins to question life
Page 50, Victor questions how bringing stuff back to life worked with humans instead of animals. -
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Victor collect body parts
Page 50, Victor begins to collect dead body parts to stitch together a human frame -
5
Henry Clerval arrives
Page 58, Henry Clerval arrives at the university making victor calm down and remember his family -
5
The Monster is complete
Page 56, the monster is completed, victor begins to take in how ugly it seems -
5
Victor runs from his monster
page 57, Victor wakes up to see his monster alive and trying to communicate with him, he flees from the monster thinking upon how hideous it seemed -
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Victor reads Elizabeth's letter
"Clerval writes that indeed you are getting better ... I eagerly hope that you will confirm this" page 62 -
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Victor expresses the feeling to return to geneva
Page 67, Victor doesn't leave for Geneva immediately after getting elizabeth's letter, he says he will leave after he feels clerval is decently acquainted with the people at the university -
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Victor finds out william is dead
"William is dead! that sweet child" page 69 -
7
Victor returns to Geneva
Upon learning that william is dead victor immediately departs with clerval to geneva. page 71 -
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Justine confesses that she lied about her confession
"I did confess, but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution" page 83 -
8
Victor Tries to defend justine
Victor begs he judges to "revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim" page 85 -
9
Victor discovers a valley where he finds peace
"My wanderings were directed towards the valley of Chamounix" pg.90 -
9
Victor blames himself for Williams murder
Page 89, victor realizes that he is the indirect cause of william and justine's death -
10
The creature finds victor
"As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed." page 94 -
10
The Monster convinces victor to hear his story
page 97, The monster talks to victor and tries to get him to listen to his story. Victor obliges, trying to find information about his brother -
11
The Monster finds fire
"I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it." Page 99 -
11
The monster finds a village
The monster finds a village in which the people shun him (it is rather hard to show stuff about victors development if the monster is the one giving a flashback) page 101 -
12
The monster helps out the cottage family
the monster gives wood to the cottage family so that they could spend their time doing better things. page 106 -
12
The monster discovers stealing is bad
"they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves." page 106, the monster stole the families food so the younger ones didn't eat as a result -
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The monster learns how to speak
"While I improved in speech I also learned the Science of letters as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field for wonder and delight." page 113 -
13
Safie arrives
Safie arrives which allows the monster to develop language and writing learning as safie speaks and writes -
14
The monster learns safie/the family's story
The monster narrates the story of how felix's family became poor due to safie's father -
14
The monster describes safie's fathers betrayal
"on discovering his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honor and had quitted italy with his daughter" page 120 -
15
The monster reveals himself to the family
The monster reveals himself to the old man initially to try and use him to get the rest of the family to accept him. After getting the whole family to accept him then the whole world would accept him eventually. Instead the family rejected him and beat him up. -
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The monster finds books to read
page 123 (I am using the development of the monster rather than victor as the monster is the one talking not victor) The monster begins to develop more and learn the society as well while reading the books -
16
The monster kills william
The monster killed william because he was a family member of his enemy, victor. Initially the monster wanted to kidnap william and raise him to have as a companion. The when the monster heard his enemies name he killed him so that he could test if his enemy was invulnerable or not -
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The cottagers abandon the monster
The cottagers realize that the monster is the one that has been helping them and they move away in order to escape the horror that they saw leaving the monster to feel even more isolated. page 131 -
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The monster asks for a companion
The monster asks for a companion to rid him of these feelings of isolation. Victor initially refuses, but later agrees showing his guilty conscience towards his monster.