Key Points in The Novel

Victor and the Creature's first conversation

""Devil" I exclaimed, "Do you dare approach me?" - Victor ""I expected this reception," said the daemon. "All men hate the wretched" -Creature

Justine is executed

"And on the morrow Justine died." "She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!"

The Creature's ending

"He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."

Victor's death

"His eyes closed forever, while the irradiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips."

The creation of the Creature

"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being to the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."

Henry's death

"I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me."

Marrying Elizabeth

"I shall be with you on your wedding-night"

William's death

"William is dead! - That sweet child, whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered!"

Walton discovering Victor

"Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but a European."

Caroline's death

"She died calmly, and her countenance expressed affection even in death."

Justine being accused

"You are all mistaken; I know the murderer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent."

Elizabeth's death

"She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed,"

Making the female companion

"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 must not refuse to concede."