Download Frankenstein and more Exams English Literature in PDF only on Docsity! Frankenstein Summaries Ch. 2 Summary • Unlike Walton, Victor has friends. Two of them. Or at least, he did during his childhood. First, there's Elizabeth. Victor also has a friend named Henry Clerval. • Victor describes his idyllic childhood, which is a cue for us to begin use of the historical present. • As a brooding teenager, Victor develops an interest in science. Especially interesting to him is the old, not to mention discredited, field of alchemy. He's especially into some guy named Albertus Magnus. • Victor realizes that science is very powerful, but possibly also destructive, when he sees a tree get struck by lightning. Hmm! Ch. 8 Summary • Shocking! Justine confesses even though she is innocent so that she won't go to Hell. • Elizabeth and Victor still believe in her innocence, although no one else does. • Justine is executed. • Victor at least has the good sense to feel guilty, since his secret has now caused two people he loves to die. Ch. 9 Summary • Victor mopes around, contemplating suicide. He continues to feel: • (1) stupid and • (2) guilty. • His father takes the family to their lake house at Belrive to try to put the past behind them. • Victor goes off by himself to the valley of Chamounix and feels momentary happiness due to how sublime it is (again with the sublime nature bit —pay attention), but the feeling passes. Ch. 14 Summary • Now that the monster understands what the family is saying, he can understand their story, which is weirdly like what has happened to Victor's family. • Safie's Turkish father was accused wrongly of a crime (like Justine), and sentenced to death in Paris. Safie met Felix when he was visiting her father in prison, and they fell in love. • At the time, Agatha, Felix, and the blind old man (named De Lacey) were respected and rich Parisians. • Felix plotted to help Safie's father escape from prison, but he was discovered, and the family was exiled sans all their money. • Safie's father tried to force her to move to Constantinople, but she ran away to Felix. • These stories give the monster hope that Felix and De Lacey will be compassionate toward him, since they too have suffered injustice.
