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Víctor Frankenstein, animado por su propio ego plantea todo un desafío a la humanidad que sólo le valdrán penurias el resto de su vida. Dedicado a la Ciencia investiga hasta el punto de enfermar la resurrección de los muertos. Con uno que consiga ya habrá tenido el éxito buscado. Sin embargo cuando su creación, formada de trozos humanos sin vida, abre los ojos por primera vez Víctor se asusta. Se asusta demasiado pronto y lo abandona. Egoistamente huye del monstruo que ha creado y se marcha a su hogar, con su querida familia y su amigo Henry Clerval. Mientras tanto el monstruo se acerca a otro ser humano y sólo siente rechazo. La sensación de soledad no es tan grave como el descubrimiento de que ha sido creado por otro hombre y ha sido abandonado. En ese momento decide buscarlo, y apoyándose en su fuerza sobrenatural, viaja incansable hasta encontrarlo. Cuando encuentra a uno de los miembros de la familia, Víctor está otra vez fuera de casa, y el monstruo se ciega con el pequeño William. A partir de ese momento el trato entre ambos será de amenaza constante. El gran tema de este libro es la soledad. Cuando te haces mayor el monstruo de Frankenstein ya no te da miedo, y te das cuenta de que no es más que un tipo bastante feo que se siente solo, algo así como lo que te encuentras al bajar al bar de la esquina. A muchos les gustaría coger a Dios por las solapas de la chaqueta y preguntarle "¿por qué me has creado?", "¿por qué me has echado a un mundo terrible en el que no encajo?", otros se piden un cubata más. Bien, en este libro asistimos a eso mismo. El monstruo puede asombrarnos por su fealdad y su fuerza, y la piel se nos pone de gallina al imaginar que despertamos con su rostro pegado al nuestro, pero si vamos más allá, nos sobrecogerá la triste historia de un ser bondadoso desgarrado por la soledad y condenado al odio a su pesar. El estilo y lenguaje del libro transportan a la época, y nos hacen querer estar en aquella reunión entre el matrimonio Shelley, Byron y Polidori.

Victor Frankenstein begins by telling Walton of his childhood. Born into a wealthy family of Geneva, Frankenstein is encouraged to seek a greater understanding of the world around him through science. He grows up in a safe environment, surrounded by loving family and friends.

As a young boy, Victor Frankenstein became obsessed with studying outdated theories of science that focused on achieving natural wonders. In particular, Victor studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa. He planned to attend university at Ingolstadt Germany. But, a week before his planned departure, Frankenstein's mother died, ironically after curing his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza, who became ill with scarlet fever. The whole family was aggrieved, and Frankenstein sees the death as his life's first misfortune. At university, he excels at chemistry and other sciences and—in part through studying how life decays—discovers the secret to imbuing the inanimate with life. He also becomes interested in galvanism, a technique discovered in the 1790s.

While the exact details of the monster's construction are left ambiguous, Frankenstein explains that he collected bones from charnel-houses, and "disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame." He also says that the dissecting-room and slaughter-house furnished many of his materials. (The slaughter-house reference suggests that some of the materials used in Frankenstein's creation are not from human bodies.) He had been forced to make the monster much larger than a normal man — he estimates it to be about eight feet tall — in part because of the difficulty in replicating the minute parts of the human body. The creature, which he had hoped would be beautiful, is instead hideous to his eyes, with a withered, translucent, yellowish skin that barely conceals the muscular system and blood vessels. After giving the monster life, Frankenstein is repulsed by his work: "I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." Frankenstein flees hoping to forget what he has created and attempts to live a normal life. Victor's abandonment of the monster leaves the monster confused, angry and afraid. However, the monster is learning valuable life lessons about family and love.

After his exhausting and secretive efforts to create a human life, Frankenstein becomes ill. He is nursed back to health by his childhood friend, Henry Clerval. It takes Frankenstein four months to recover from his illness. He has determined that he should return home when his five-year-old brother, William, is found murdered. Elizabeth blames herself for William's death because she had allowed him to have access to his mother's locket, which she believes caused a thief to murder William and steal the locket. William's nanny, Justine, is hanged for the murder based on the discovery of Frankenstein's mother's locket in Justine's pocket. It is revealed that the creature murdered William and then placed the locket into Justine's coat as she slept, and the back story for the creature's murder of William is given.

Frankenstein's monster travels to Geneva and meets a little boy in the woods. Hoping that, because the boy is still young and potentially unaffected by older humans' perception of his hideousness, the boy will be a companion for him, Frankenstein's monster plans to abduct the child. But the boy reveals himself as a relation of Frankenstein. Upon seeing the monster, the boy shouts insults, angering the monster. In an attempt to reason with the boy, the monster covers the boy's mouth to silence him. The monster ends up killing the boy by asphyxiation. Although not his original intent, the monster takes it as his first act of vengeance against his creator. The monster removes a necklace from the dead boy's body and plants it on a sleeping girl, Justine. Justine is found with the necklace, put on trial and found guilty. The judges at the trial are noted for their dislike of executing people when there is any doubt; but, under threats of excommunication, Justine confesses to the murder and is executed.

When Frankenstein learns of his brother's death, he returns to Geneva to be with his family. Frankenstein sees the monster in the woods where his young brother was murdered, and becomes certain that the monster is William's murderer. Ravaged by his grief and guilt for creating the monster who wreaked so much destruction, Frankenstein retreats into the mountains to find peace. After some time in solitude, the monster approaches Frankenstein. Initially furious and intent on killing the monster, Frankenstein attempts to spring on him. The monster, far larger and more agile than his creator, eludes Frankenstein and allows the man to compose himself. Frankenstein encounters his creation while pursuing him to avenge William's death. The monster begins to tell Frankenstein of his encounters with humans, and how he had become afraid of them and spent a year living near a cottage, observing the family living there. The family had been wealthy, but was forced into exile when Felix De Lacey rescued a Turkish merchant wrongfully accused of a crime and sentenced to death. The man rescued by Felix was the father of his beloved, a girl named Safie. Once rescued, the father agreed to allow Felix to marry Safie. Ultimately, though, he could not stand the idea of his beloved daughter marrying a Christian and fled with his daughter. Safie returned, eager for the freedom of European women.

Through observing the De Lacey family, the monster becomes educated and self-aware, realizing that he is very different in physical appearance from the humans he watches. In loneliness, the monster seeks to befriend the De Laceys. When the monster tries to befriend the family, they are horrified by his appearance and react viciously, with violence against him. This rejection makes the monster seek further vengeance against his creator.

The monster concludes his story with a demand that Frankenstein create for him a female companion, on the basis that he is lonely since no human will accept him. The monster argues that as a living thing, he has a right to happiness and that Frankenstein, as his creator, has a duty to oblige him. He promises that he and his mate will vanish into wilderness uninhabited by man, never to reappear, if Frankenstein creates a companion for him.

Fearing for his family, Frankenstein reluctantly agrees and travels to England to do his work. Clerval accompanies Frankenstein, but they separate in Scotland. In the process of creating a second being on the Orkney Islands, Frankenstein is plagued by premonitions of the carnage another monster could potentially wreak. Given the murderous behavior of the first creature, Frankenstein is reluctant to compound his error, particularly as creating a female companion for the creature might lead to an entire race of monsters that could plague mankind for millennia to come. Frankenstein destroys the unfinished project. The monster witnesses this event and vows revenge on Frankenstein's upcoming wedding night. Frankenstein sails far out to sea to dispose of the parts of the unfinished project, and remains adrift and alone. Meanwhile, the monster murders Clerval and leaves the corpse on an Irish beach, coincidentally near where Frankenstein finds himself washed up after his unintentionally long voyage. Arriving in Ireland, Frankenstein is imprisoned for the murder of Clerval, and falls violently ill in prison. After being acquitted (he was proven to be on the Orkney Islands when the murder took place) and with his health renewed, Frankenstein returns home with his father.

Once home, Frankenstein marries his cousin Elizabeth and, possessing full knowledge of and belief in the monster's threat, prepares for a fight to the death with the monster. Wrongly believing the monster's vowed revenge meant his own death, Frankenstein asks Elizabeth to retire to her room for the night. Of course, the continued revenge of the monster is the destruction of those closest to Frankenstein, and the monster kills the secluded Elizabeth in her bed. Grief-stricken by the deaths of William, Justine, Clerval, and now Elizabeth, Frankenstein's father dies. Frankenstein vows to pursue the monster until one of them destroys the other. After months of pursuit, the two end up in the Arctic Circle, near the North Pole, where we return to Walton's ship and the end of Frankenstein's narrative.

Concluding frame narrative

At the end of Frankenstein's narrative, Captain Walton resumes the telling of the story. A few days after Frankenstein has finished his story, the ship becomes entombed in ice and a deputation from Walton's crew insist on returning South once the ship is freed. In spite of a passionate and rousing speech from Frankenstein, encouraging the crew to push further North, Walton is forced to relent and head for home. Although Frankenstein is desperate to continue his pursuit of the monster and exact his revenge, he is critically ill and dies shortly after the ship heads for home. Walton discovers the monster mourning over Frankenstein's body. Walton hears the monster's adamant justification for his vengeance as well as expressions of remorse. The destruction of Frankenstein had not brought the monster peace – rather his crimes increased his own misery and alienation, finding his own emotional destruction in the destruction of his creator. He leaves the ship and travels toward the Pole to destroy himself on his own funeral pyre so that no others will ever know of his existence.

Mary Shelley completed her writing in May 1817, and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was first published on 1 January 1818 by the small London publishing house of Harding, Mavor & Jones. It was issued anonymously, with a preface written for Mary by Percy Bysshe Shelley and with a dedication to philosopher William Godwin, her father. It was published in an edition of just 500 copies in three volumes, the standard "triple-decker" format for 19th century first editions. The novel had been previously rejected by Percy Bysshe Shelley's publisher, Charles Ollier and by Byron's publisher John Murray.

The second edition of Frankenstein was published on 11 August 1823 in two volumes (by G. and W. B. Whittaker), and this time credited Mary Shelley as the author.

On 31 October 1831, the first "popular" edition in one volume appeared, published by Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley. This edition was quite heavily revised by Mary Shelley, and included a new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished version of the genesis of the story. This edition tends to be the one most widely read now, although editions containing the original 1818 text are still being published. In fact, many scholars prefer the 1818 edition. They argue that it preserves the spirit of Shelley's original publication (see Anne K. Mellor's "Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach" in the W.W. Norton Critical edition).

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft – 1797–1851, English author; daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1814 she fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, accompanied him abroad, and after the death of his first wife in 1816 was married to him. Her most notable contribution to literature is her novel of terror, Frankenstein, published in 1818. It is the story of a German student who learns the secret of infusing life into inanimate matter and creates a monster that ultimately destroys him. Included among her other novels are Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), and the partly autobiographical Lodore (1835). After Shelley's death in 1822, she devoted herself to caring for her aged father and educating her only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1839–40 she edited her husband's works.

See her journal (ed. by F. L. Jones, 1947); her letters (ed. by M. Spark and D. Stamford, 1953); biographies by M. Spark (1951, repr. 1988), N. B. Gerson (1973), and M. Seymour (2001); studies by W. A. Walling (1972) and E. Sunstein (1989).

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Frankenstein is a famous novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The novel was published on January 1, 1818. The novel was written in Gothic genre. Frankenstein book comprises of more or less 345 pages of statndard size.

Frankenstein Novel Setting (Time & Place)

In the novel, the 18th century was shown and the places depicted were Geneva, the Swiss Alps, Ingolstadt, England, Scotland and the northern ice.

Frankenstein Characters

Victor Frankenstein
Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein
Alphonse Frankenstein
Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein
Henry Clerval
The Monster
William Frankenstein
Ernest Frankenstein
Beaufort
M. Krempe
Justine Moritz
Margaret Seville
M. Waldman – Victor"s Chemistry Professor
De Lacey
Agatha – De Lacey"s Daughter
Felix

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Of Main Characters

Here is a brief statement of thesis on the main characters of the novel Frankenstein.

Victor Frankenstein: Victor, born in Geneva and possesses an aggressive nature interests in gaining knowledge most. He is inclined to poetry much but later on he develops high interest in science. But he soon becomes obsessed with the subject of science. His focal point of studies is "the secrets of heaven and earth".He is so dedicated to his research that behaves selfishly and does not stay in touch with his family for many years.Finally he enlivens a dead person who becomes a monster and brings consequences to him and his relations.
Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein: Elizabeth, an orphan, earlier lived with peasant family and later adopted by the Frankensteins. Victor and Elizabeth are destined to be married since the day she enters the house of the Frankensteins. She is a quiet and even-handed woman. Like Victor, she also likes poetry and countryside beauty.
Alphonse Frankenstein: Alphonse Frankenstein, Victor's father, is a dignified and a respectable person in the community. He is a compassionate and patient man. He is very devoted and shields his family. For instance, he supports Victor believing his innocence when he is alleged of murder. He also behaves so kindly to his wife.
Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein: Caroline, Victor"s mother, faces hard time in her young hood. Her father falls seriously ill and in order to arrange his medicine and bread and butter, she does multiple jobs to manage it all.Having been married to Alphonse Frankenstein, she sees her good days. She behaves very compassionately to the less privileged. She portrays the perfect mother"s image.
Henry Clerval: Although Henry and Victor have different natures and even interests, Henry is the only friend of Victor. Henry always backs Victor in whatsoever situation. He accompanies Victor while travelling and nurses him when he falls ill.Victor commends Henry's sensibility, fervent mind's eye and refinement. Unlike Victor, Henry shows no interest in science at all. Instead he likes literature, language and natural world.
The monster: Victor creates the monster with different body parts. The monster has yellow skin with clearly-raised muscles and arteries. He has black hair, black lips, white teeth and dried-up complexion. He is very huge in size. The monster"s frightening appearance doesn"t let him mingle with people since they feel afraid of him. He isolates himself and takes refuge secretly at De Lacey's home. There he learns how to read. And then he reads the Victor"s diary in which he wrote the experience of monster"s creation.Somehow the De Laceys find and beat him out and leave their house for good. At this, the monster develops detestation and vengeance for his creator.Out of rage, he makes killings but regrets committing them. He expresses remorse when he finds his last victim, Victor Frankenstein, dead.

Frankenstein Summary

Robert Walton, the captain of a ship heading to the North Pole, writes his sister a letter informing that his crew recently found out a man at sea namely Victor Frankenstein who agreed to tell his story.

Victor narrates the he spent his childhood in Switzerland. His family adopted needy orphans. Among them was beautiful Elizabeth who befriends with Victor and soon they fall in love. Victor has another best friend, Henry Clerval. When Victor turns seventeen, he goes to study at the University in Ingoldstad. In the meanwhile, his mother dies of scarlet fever.

Victor engrosses himself in studying the secrets of life and doesn"t even get enough time to stay in touch with his family. One night, he discovers the secret of life. He experiments to liven up a dead man with the idea of creating a fine race. He makes a successful experiment but the creature which comes into being looks so horrendous. Therefore he abandons it but the monster escapes and survives. After a few months, Victor is informed that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. Victor believes firmly that the monster has done it, but he keeps silent. An adoptee in Victor"s family, Justine Moritz, is charged of the murder and executed. With a guilty conscience, Victor, Frankensteins goes on vacation. One day when

Victor is hiking in the mountains, he comes across the monster. Instead of showing his rage, the monster begs Victor to listen to the story of his miserable life. It tells Victor that how rejected and isolated he is because of his appearance. The monster demands Victor to create a female monster to live with. Victor turns down but later consents.

Victor"s father asks Victor to marry Elizabeth. Victor tells him that he first has to go to England. He comes across Clerval on the way to England. He makes Clerval stay at his friend"s house in Scotland and heads to a far-off island to create the female monster.

While creating female monster, Victor fears that it may turn out more perilous than the first one at the same time he realizes the first monster looking at him through a window and Victor destroys the female monster. The first monster swears to avenge. It threats Victor to take its revenge on Victor"s wedding night. Victor dumps the remains of female monster in the ocean. When he returns to shore, he is alleged of a murder. When Victor comes to know that the victim is Clerval, he loses his senses and remains in the state for two months. When he restores himself, his father has arrived, and he is cleared of the false charges.Victor goes back to Geneva and marries Elizabeth. On the night of his wedding, the monster murders Elizabeth. Victor"s father passes away because of the bereavement. Now, Victor is determined to avenge against the monster. He chases the monster in the Northern ice, but gets stuck on breaking ice. There he is rescued by Walton"s crew.

Robert Walton sends another string of letters to his sister. He puts in the picture about his failure to reach the North Pole and bring back Victor, who died soon after his rescue. In the final letter by Walton, he tells that he found the monster grieving over Victor"s dead body. He points the finger at the monster of having no repentance. But the monster says it has undergone a more miseries than anyone else. The monster takes its revenge with Victor death and therefore it decides to finish its own life too.

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