Frankenstein 16-18
Victor is very happy and healthy when he returns to Geneva, much to his family's surprise. His father noticed these changes and was very pleased.
How does Victor appear and respond to his family when he returns home?
Victor is bewildered and perplexed. He refuses. Frankenstein expects the creature to torture him into oblivion, but he'll never consent to making another monster. The monster threatens to cause even more fear and misery, especially towards Victor.
How does Victor at first respond to the creature's demand? What response does he expect from the creature? What approach does the creature say he will take?
He travels only at night to avoid contact with humans
How does the creature travel?
Extremely convincing. Victor agrees to do it.
How effective is the creature in convincing Victor?
Victor decides to do it. The monster will watch their progress with anxiety and will appear as soon as Victor is done.
What does Victor decide? What does the creature say he will do while Victor is at work?
Create a female monster for him
What does the creature demand from Victor?
The monster reasons that if he can have another creature like him, he will be at peace with the rest of the world, including Victor. The monster will be happy with a female companion, and their life together will not be happy, but not full of misery.
What does the creature say will happen if Victor creates a female for him?
The monster saves a young girl from drowning and another person comes up and grabs her from the monster's hands. As the monster ran behind the man, he shot the monster.
What event during the creature's travels confirms his hatred of humans?
He stops in the woods to rest and he sees William (Victor's little brother) run by him. He wants to take William and educate him to be his friend and be unprejudiced. He snatches William and he screams insults at the monster, and then threatens that his father, M. Frankenstein, will punish him. The monster now knows that William is related to Victor, and decides William will be his first victim, to hurt Frankenstein. The monster places the portrait of Victor's mother in Justine's clothes.
What event happens when the creature is near Geneva? Who is the boy? Who is the woman?
They flee the cottage and never come back. Felix fears that his father is in danger with the monster around, and says Safie & Agatha will never recover from the horrific thing they witnessed. The monster is upset that they left, being that they were the only link between him and the world. He felt feelings of revenge and hatred- then feelings of injury and death. He cries, but then he remembers his rage and anger towards the family. He sets their cottage on fire.
What happens to the De Lacey family after the events of chapter 15? How does the creature respond, and what does he do to the cottage?
The break in the narrative brings the listener to the present and Victor foreshadows the death of Clerval.
What is the effect of Victor's return to the present?
He doesn't necessarily find delight in carnage and misery, he's seeking revenge for his loneliness and how people, including his creator, have treated him for the short time he's been alive
When Victor visits the site of William's death in chapter 7, he says "I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery". How is this accurate or inaccurate?
Victor visits England because more advances in science have taken place there, and he hopes to talk with an English philosopher to help with his creation of the female monster. He sees himself as enslaved to the monster, and so long as the monster keeps living, he will always be enslaved to the monster.
Why does Victor want to visit England? What do you make of his talk of slavery?
Alphonse is worried that, over time, Victor has come to think of Elizabeth less as someone he'd want to marry and more of his sister. He also thinks that Victor might have found someone else to marry.
Why does Victor's father think Victor might not want to marry Elizabeth?
