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Frankenstein Summary Chapter 18

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In chapter 16, the monster who was filled with rage, swore revenge on humans especially on Victor, his creator, after being rejected by the family who lived in the cottage for no valid reason. As he traveled to Geneva to find his creator, he found a girl who is in deep trouble and about to drown. As he rescued her from the stream, he was seen by her guardian and shot by him. This caused the monster further anger and suffering. As he continued his travel to Geneva and healed his wound, he found a boy who is Victor’s younger brother, William. The monster approached him because he thought that he can be his companion but William became terrified and threatened the monster that he will be punished by his father, a Frankenstein. This cause the monster to become furious …show more content…

He reasoned that it is Victor’s obligation to make his creation happy. The monster promised that he will stop interacting with humans, the hatred, and him and his companion will live in the jungles of South America away from human contact. Victor refused at first but eventually complied to his creation’s demands. This made the monster really happy. In chapter 18, Victor is now planning on creating the second monster but he is still skeptical causing him to feel troubled. His father, Alphonse Frankenstein, noticed and tried to comfort him. Victor then wished to go back to England to create the monster. He travels to England with Henry Clerval, his close friend. In chapter 19, Victor visits parts of England and Scotland with his close friend, Henry. Victor wanted to commence his creation of the second monster and so he traveled to an isolated island in the Orkneys to execute his project. He went there so no one would bother or suspect him. As he starts his project, he feels uneasy and he is full of doubt whether to continue such project, but he did not

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He has no one to comfort which is why I think he created the monster in the first place to not feel so much alone. 3) Chapter 4, Page 42 " Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime." The isolation being shown here by Victor has now begun to get physical.

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Victor builds the monster, disregarding any potential consequences, and begins the process of bringing it to life. As soon as it awakens, Victor, “ … escaped, and rushed down stairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited…”(Shelley 60). Victor runs away from his newly born monster, not considering the repercussions of his actions. At this point the monster had not been any sort of a threat to Victor, but his irrationality led him to distance the monster from himself.

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In chapter 20, Victor was starting to worry about the creation he was creating. He was worrying that the two monsters were not going to like eachother or that the she was going to be way stronger than the first monster he made. Also, he worried about the kids they could possibly make, and the way they would act. Once Victor saw his other creature again, he promised himself that he would stop working on the new one, after the way his monster was looking at him. Also, the monster threatened him multiple times, and made it clear that Victor would be miserable if he didn’t create him a partner.

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Victor enjoyed it, but still felt miserable because of the thought of the monster. At Matlock, they visited a cave and little cabinets of natural history, and then passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland, where they admired the Swiss mountains. Henry greatly enjoyed traveling, but Victor, on the other hand, knew he was delaying his creation and fear of the monster hurting his family because of this delay struck him. He felt as if he was protecting Henry on this journey and felt cursed because he could feel the monster following him. After passing Edinburgh, they

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The monster first got mad at Victor or revenge when Victor did not accept the wretch into society. So, this causes the monster to go around torturing Victor's family and killing his brother Henry. On page (58) “I come to visit the place where William is because he has been murdered.” Victor immediately knows it's the monster and starts to plot his revenge. The last way the monster gets revenge on Victor is when he kills all of Victor's loved ones and also follows him around doing different things.

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These emotions eventually cause Victor to seek revenge against the creature. The creature is also a very emotional character; for the being he is, he quickly learned and experienced what emotions are. After Victor runs out on him, he has to go and find somewhere to live. Within that time, he comes across William, Victor's younger brother. He is out playing hide and seek with his siblings when the monster finds him and kills him because he is so angry at Victor for abandoning him.

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Victor denied the monster it’s power by not allowing it to have what it asked for. This refusal caused the monster declare it’s dominance through threatening Victor to do as it says or he will be punished. After Victor refuses to allow his creation to take control, it goes mayhem and reacts with hatred. The creature tried to gain it’s power by deteriorating Victor’s life killing many of the friends and loved ones close to Victor. This pulls the final straw for Victor, he attempted to hunt the monster down and destroy it before it could hurt anyone else.

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The monster’s desire to seek revenge exists because Victor was reckless in the making of his creation and proceeded to flee from its hideous appearance, which caused the monster to live a short life of agony and gain a strong feeling of hate towards his creator. Once the fiend murdered his creator, his motivation to live faded away, and he began to regret his decisions; After all, he didn’t have a reason to live. Mary Shelley demonstrated how Victor’s impetuous desires and the monster’s harmful passions toward each other only led to fateful and self-destructive consequences for both parties. Had Victor supported his creation, the fiend wouldn’t have gained a hateful rage against Victor. Also, had the monster thought through his thoughts before he killed everyone Victor loved, he might’ve been able to find something better to live for that wouldn’t end in his demise.

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He created the monster to fulfill his need to caretake, much like how Shelley used the novel to fill her void. In addition to this, Colleen Hobbs also blames Victor’s upbringing on the creation of the monster. Because Victor suppressed his childhood trauma, he was never able to fully express his emotions to any other being. These two sources both agree that there were many factors as to why Victor is the way he is. I think it's fascinating how neither of them even touch on how scary the monster is, for the true fear in the story should come from Victor

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Thinking about the deal with his family in mind, Victor begins his work on the second monster. The first monster made Victor suffer terribly and threatened his family; trying to scare Victor for not creating his mate, the monster angrily said to Frankenstein, “I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you” (162). While looking back upon his unfinished work, Victor remembers “the miserable monster whom I had created,” (152). “With the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man,” (142) promises the monster to Victor upon completion of his mate. Victor, trying to act morally, destroys the monster for the good of the world.

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Beginning with Victor abandoning the creature at birth, the series of revenge and hatred-filled events begin to occur as both attempt to find justice and retribution. The creature stole the lives of everyone beloved by Victor, and Victor stole the monster’s chance at happiness by abandoning him. As the characters continuously harm each other, their isolation increases as well as their sanity. In the end, numerous family members perish, Victor Frankenstein dies of physical exhaustion, and the creature conveys his desire to

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Shortly after Frankenstein created the monster, it followed Victor to his residence in Geneva. The Monster saw Victor’s young relative, William, in the forest near his house. He then proceeded to choke the innocent young boy to death, robbing him of his life and future.

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It is at this point when the creature decides to return the raging behaviours of humankind to his creator. He states " Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy-- to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim" (144). As an attempt of returning the agony that the creature has had to persevere, he murders Victor's loved ones. The creature, filled with fury, searches for Victor in Geneva.

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Mary Shelley shows these actions as Victor first made the decision to develop the creature, in which leads to the guilty conscience as the monster is the cause of death of William, Victor’s younger brother and the execution of Justine who is directly and indirectly the cause of William’s death. Throughout the rest of the story, once the monster did these doings, Victor comes to the realization that his creature is no good, including no good intentions and realizes where his pursuit and passion of knowledge has brought upon

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Victor also has a very important relationship with the monster. The monster has no relationship with Victor besides a need for revenge. When Victor created the monster, he looked on him in disgust. He abandoned his creation after looking upon the creation with horror. This feels the monster with loneliness and rage, so he goes and lives on Felix’s farm.

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