Frankenstein- Jensen

21-Letters

4 BCE

When Victor decides not to make the monster a companion the monster vows revenge. One by one the monster kills everyone he cares about, Henry, Elizabeth, then his dad dies from grief.

Chapter 15-20

3 BCE

When Victor thinks of the horrors that could come to tow monsters in the world he takes action. He throws the monster's companion in a lake.

Chapter 6-14

2 BCE

When Justine dies it takes a toll on Victor's family and his sole. He thinks about commiting suicide becuase he blames himself on Justine and William's death.

Chapter 1-5

1 BCE

Victor becomes obbssed with science after Victor's mom dies and he sees the lighting he becomes obsessed with science and brings the dead to life. In allowing that to consume him, he creates a living monster that will go on to rain terror.

Beaufort Dies

1 CE

Caroline's (Frankenstein's mom) dad died of sickness. His friend (Frankenstein's dad) soon married Caroline. Page 32.

Elizabeth gets Adopted

1 CE

While Frankenstein's family was in Mila they picked up a young girl who was an orphan and living on the streets. Frankenstein when seeing her thought she was the most beautiful human ever. Page 34-35.

Frankenstein Chapters

Period: 1 CE to 24

Frankenstein gets Interested in Agrippa

2

Frankenstein starts to read books and is especially interested in Agrippa. This is where his obsession with science and knowledge begins.

Victor met Henry Clerval

2

Victor met a Henry Clerval a merchant. They would become great friends even through adulthood.

Victor goes to the University of Ingolstadt

3

When Victor was 17 he left home to go study at the University of Ingolstadt.

Victor's Mom Dies

3

Right before Victor leaves for the university his mom becomes very ill. Right before she dies she tells Victor and Elizabeth the marry and a few weeks after she dies Victor leaves for the university.

Victor Begins His Studies

4

Victor studies many types of sciences at the university. He is most interested in the human body and how it dies and decays.

Victor Ignores His Family

4

He stops talking to his family and never writes to them. He is so caught up in his studies he forgets about them.

Victor Becomes Ill

5

Shortly after Victor creates the monster Henry Clerval came to study at the university. But has to take care of Victor because he becomes very ill.

Victor Creates the Monster

5

Victor, after months of little sleep and to eat, has created the monster. After seeing the horor he created he ran from the monster. He later came back but the monster was not there.

Victor has a Hard Time Looking at Scientific Tools

6

" I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death. I writhed under his words yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt."

Victor Finds Out that William has Died

7

"William is dead!--that sweet child, whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered! I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction."

The Trial Against Justine has Begun

8

"The trial began, and after the advocate against her had stated the charge, several witnesses were called. Several strange facts combined against her, which might have staggered anyone who had not such proof of her innocence as I had. She had been out the whole of the night on which the murder had been committed and towards morning had been perceived by a market-woman not far from the spot where the body of the murdered child had been afterwards found."

Victor thinks of Suicide but Thinks How His Family Will Suffer from His Death

9

"I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever. But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine. I thought also of my father and surviving brother"

Victor Goes to the Mountains and Finds the Monster

10

"As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man."

The Monster's First Encounter with a Human

11

"He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable."

The Monster Gathers Wood for the Cottagers

12

"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 sufficient for the consumption of several days."

Victor Listens to Felix's Lessons and Learns their Language

13

"My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken."

The Monster Discovers Who the Old Man Is

14

"The name of the old man was De Lacey. He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals."

The Monster Begins to Read

15

After finding books, the monster reads and discovers a book called Paradise Lost and find similarities to his story with the book. He then finds papers in the coat that once belonged to Victor and starts to read them and finds out how he was created.

The Monster Saves a Girl

16

While the Monster was traveling he came across a girl who was drowning in the water and saves her. But when an sees him with her he shoots him. This cuases the monster to be even more angry.

The Monster Wants a Companion

17

The Monster convinces Victor to give him a companion because it is his right. He tells Victor that he will leave to South America and won't kill anyone else.

Victor Travels Europe

18

Since Victor agrees to make the monster a companion but has to postpone his marriage with Elizabeth. He has to travel Europe to get the information he needs to build another. He asks Henry Clerval to join him.

Victor Puts Himself on an Island

19

While traveling he tells Henry to stay with a friend. He then goes to a remote island to finish his work on the new monster.

Victor Rethinks about Making the Monster a Companion

20

While making the monster's companion Victor thinks of what can happen. He thinks about what if they have children and there becomes a race of monsters.

Henry Clerval is Died

21

"The examination, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses, passed like a dream from my memory when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me. I gasped for breath, and throwing myself on the body, I exclaimed, "Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life? Two I have already destroyed; other victims await their destiny; but you, Clerval, my friend, my benefactor--"

Elizabeth has Doubts about Victor

22

"Have you, then, some other attachment?"
"None on earth. I love Elizabeth and look forward to our union with delight. Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin."

Elizabeth Dies

23

"She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. Everywhere I turn I see the same figure-- her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier."

Victor Devotes His Life to Track the Monster

24

"Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote 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 Dies and The Monster Visits Him

25

"I entered the cabin where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend. Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe--gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions."