monster breaks out of the apartment and runs away, the anxiety of this
monster being in public makes Victor become sick, for which he goes into
nature to let the natural beauty of the world heal him.
A little while later,
Victor hears that his brother William has been murdered, he is certain that
the creature is responsible for this death.
Justine, the family servant, takes
the blame for this murder and is consequently executed, making Victor’s
creation responsible for two deaths of people very dear to Victor.
This
causes Victor to become ill again and he goes into the mountains to seek
healing once more.
Victor finds his creation in the mountains, and the
monster tells Victor the story of his life and requests a female companion.
He also tells Victor of how he was rejected by the cottagers because of his
hideous appearance.
Victor agrees to make the monster a companion, but
halfway through his second creation he decides to destroy the female
creature.
When the monster finds out that Victor destroyed his companion
he vows to be at Victor’s wedding.
Victor goes on to marry Elizabeth,
ready to fight back against the monster when he comes to attack him. But
the monster decides to kill Elizabeth instead of Victor; the grief of her
death causes Victor’s father, Alphonse, to die.
After the deaths of
Elizabeth and his father, Victor vows to pursue the monster and destroy
him.
While Victor is hunting the monster down, Walton and his men find
him.
A few days after finishing telling his story to Walton and his crew,
Victor passes away.
Then the monster appears and is devastated over the
death of his creator, and tells Walton the he is going to the North Pole to
die, as life will be more painful than death, and then sails away on a raft
into the sea.

Describe the author’s style
Mary Shelley uses a frame story, a
popular style among Romantic
novelists.
This name implies that
there is an outside story and more
stories within it.
The purpose of
Shelley using a frame story is that it
provides the reader with multiple
viewpoints and allows for the use of
more than one narrator throughout
the storyline.
The reader is able to
have the viewpoints of both
Frankenstein and the creature in the
novel.
Shelley also uses allusion to other
stories and authors in her own
novel.
This proves that she is well
versed in other works of literature
and makes her story more
interesting and believable, since
these allusions are to real works of
literature.
Example that demonstrates style
Frankenstein is a frame story
because of the way Shelley
introduces her audience to Walton
and then uses Frankenstein telling
his story to Walton to bring the
reader into the plot of the rest of the
story.
The first, and perhaps most well
known example, of allusion is in a
letter that Victor writes to his sister
when he says, “…but I shall kill no
Albatross.” This is a reference to
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Memorable quotations (minimum 3)
1.
“Learn from me . . . how
dangerous is the acquirement
of knowledge, and how much


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