1 st period Summaries & Quotes

1. 1st periodSummaries &Quotes

2. Chapter 13 “The lady was dressed in a dark suit, and covered with a thick black veil. Agatha asked a question; to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix.” (Shelley 99) [The monster’s thoughts] Summary: Safie comes to the cottage, and as she learns the cottagers’ language the monster does as well. But with this, he learns how alone and isolated. “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” (Shelley 101) [The monster’s thought] “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing. From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then as in height and proportion. I had never yet seen a being resembling me, or who claimed any intercourse with me.” (Shelley, 103) [The monster’s thought]

3. Chapter 14 • “Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I was.” • “He could have endured poverty; and while distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk, and the loss of his beloved Safie, were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.” • Summary: The monster figures out the history of the family, the De Laceys. Once well respected, Felix fell in love with Safie and helped her father, a man wrongly accused of a crime, escape from prison. Felix's role in the escape was discovered, and the family lost its wealth and was exiled by the government. When Safie's father tried to force her to return to Turkey, she escaped, not wanting to be constrained by Islam's oppressive stance on women, and came to find Felix

4. Frankenstein Summaries Zach Milholland & Andrew Hodkoski

5. Chapter 16 • Themonster saves a little girl from downing. • The man with the little girl thinks the monster is trying to hurt the girl, so he shoots the creature. • The monster makes his way back to Geneva and runs into William Frankenstein. • William acts just as Victor did towards the monster, so the monster decides to stagle him with his bare hands. • William has a picture of his mother. The monster takes the picture and gives it to a nearby sleeping girl. • That girl is Justine • The monster finds Victor and asks him to make the monster a female mate

6. Quotes • “CURSED, CURSED CREATOR! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge.” –Frankenstein • “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone. –Frankenstein

7. Chapter 17Quotes

8. Summary *Monster blames victor for his loneliness *Monster asks victor for a mate *After arguing victor agrees *Monster says not to contact him until it is done and that he is watching his progress

9. Quotes “You must create a female for me , with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This alone you can do; and I demand it of you as right which you may not refuse to concede” the monster Victor refuses but is soon convinced. “You swear,” I said, “to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you? May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?” Victor Frankenstein

10. Ch. 18 Summary • Victor decides to go off to England to work on his project. • Victor’s father thinks Victor is upset, and he thinks it is because he doesn’t want to marry Elizabeth anymore. • Victor begins to make the female monster. • He then begins to have doubts, so he destroys it and decides not to make it anymore. • He is afraid that the monster will mate with the female and make more monsters.

11. Ch. 18 Quotes • “I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.” Pg. 129 • “‘My dear father, reassure yourself. I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely. I never saw any woman who excited, as Elizabeth does, my warmest admiration and affection. My future hopes and prospects are entirely bound up in the expectation of our union.’” Pg. 130

14. Ch. 20 Summary • Victor changes his mind about creating the female and destroys her. The monster sees him destroy her. He visits Victor and vows to see him on his wedding night. The creature promises to destroy Victor’s happiness. Victor goes on a boat to dispose of the female’s body. He falls asleep and ends up in Ireland. He is taken into custody as a murder suspect.

15. Ch. 20 Quotes • “I was now about to form another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.” (Pg. 141) • “I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.” (Pg. 143)

16. Chapter 21 • Summary: At Mr. Kirwin's office, Victor learns that a man in his mid-twenties was found dead on the shore with black marks on his neck. And various witnesses testify that a boat much like Victor's was seen at sea. Victor is taken to see the body. It is Henry. Victor falls into convulsions, and remains bedridden and delusional for two months. • “As the images that floated before me became more distinct, I grew feverish; a darkness pressed around me: no one was near me who soothed me with the gentle voice of love; no dear hand supported me.” • “My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my relentlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around: the cloudy sky above; the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future, imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.

17. Chapter 22 • Victor stops in Paris to rest. • He gets a letter from Elizabeth asking if he still loves her. • He decides that he is going to marry Elizabeth in ten days, despite what he thinks the monster is going to do. • Back in Geneva, Victor tells Elizabeth that he has a terrible secret, but he can’t tell her until after the wedding. • After the wedding, the happy couple goes to their honeymoon in a cottage in the middle of nowehere.

18. QUOTES • “Alas! my father,” said I, “how little do you know me. Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded is such a wretch as I felt pride. Justine, poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I, and she suffered the same charge, she died for it; and I am the cause of this—I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry—they all died by my hands.” –Victor Frankenstein • “A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.” –Victor Frankenstein