Frankenstein

1
Frankenstein

• Pages 192-213

2
Victors Plan

• Decides to leave Geneva forever
• How I have lived I hardly know many times have
  I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain
  and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive
  I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.
  (192)
• I swearto pursue the demon who caused this
  misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal
  conflict. (193)

3
Victors Plan

• The monster laughs at Victor and Victor begins to
  pursue him
• The monster leaves notes for Victor
• Follow me I seek the everlasting ices of the
  north, where you will feel the misery of cold and
  frost, to which I am impassive. (195)
• Leaves food and clothing for Victor

4
Victors Plea

• If I do (die), swear to me, Walton, that he
  shall not escape, that you will seek him and
  satisfy my vengeance in his death. (199)

5
WALTON, IN CONTINUATION (199)

• Victors story now ends.
• Walton becomes the narrator

6
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase
  your own. (200)

7
Waltons Letters

• Worried he might not make it back to England
• If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause
  (203)
• Parallel to Victor
• Decides to return to England if the ice breaks

8
Victors Dying Words

• Farewell, Walton! Seek happiness in tranquility
  and avoid ambition (208)
• In other words, do not do what I did
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner

9
The Monster

• Appears in the cabin and mourns Victors death
• Feels regret because of his actions

10
The Monster

• Think you that the groans of Clerval were music
  to my ears? My heart was fashioned to be
  susceptible of love and sympathy, and when
  wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not
  endure the violence of the change without torture
  such as you cannot even imagine. (209-210)

11
The Monster

• Thus, the violent actions of the monster go
  against his nature

12
The Monsters Future

• I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings
  shall endurethe fallen angel becomes a malignant
  devilI am alone. (211)

13
The Monsters Future

• Still I desired love and fellowship, and I was
  still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am
  I to be thought the only criminal, when all
  humankind sinned against me? (211)
• Great question by the monster
• Should the creation be held responsible when the
  creator has abandoned his responsibilities?

14
The Monsters Future

• Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest
  remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
  (212)
• The monster jumps from the window onto his ice
  raft and disappears into the darkness