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Transcript: by ollie, holly, ellie, sadie and jam Chapter 19 summarising quote: "But I am a blasted tree; the bolt had entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be-- a miserable spectacle of wrecked humiliation, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself." E T summarising quote: You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light of food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. While working one night, Victor begins to think about what might happen after he finishes his creation. He imagines that his new creature might not want to seclude herself, as the monster had promised, or that the two creatures might have children, creating “a race of devils . . . on the earth.” In the midst of these reflections and growing concern, Victor looks up to see the monster grinning at him through the window. Overcome by the monster’s hideousness and the possibility of a second creature like him, he destroys his work in progress. The monster becomes enraged at Victor for breaking his promise, and at the prospect of his own continued solitude. He curses and vows revenge, then departs, swearing that he will be with Victor on his wedding night. The following night, Victor receives a letter from Henry, who, tired of Scotland, suggests that they continue their travels. Before he leaves his shack, Victor cleans and packs his chemical instruments and collects the remains of his second creature. Late that evening, he rows out onto the ocean and throws the remains into the water, allowing himself to rest in the boat for a while. When he wakes, he finds that the winds will not permit him to return to shore. Panicking, in fear for his life, he contemplates the possibility of dying at sea, blown far out into the Atlantic. Soon the winds change, however, and he reaches shore near a town. When he lands, a group of townspeople greet him rudely, telling him that he is under suspicion for a murder discovered the previous night. summarising quote: "I was the slave of my creature I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly imitated the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations." I Analysis Though never alive, the female monster is a powerful presence: to Victor, she represents another crime against humanity and nature; to the monster, she represents his one remaining hope for a life not spent alone. It seems obvious to the reader that if Victor destroys the monster’s only hope left, the monster will burden Victor with the same punishment. It seems that to Victor, the female monster can be empathised with more than the original monster, because all the time the fact that his and Elizabeth’s marriage loomed in the distance causes Elizabeth to be in his mind always. So it has an effect on Victor, to destroy someone’s loved one. So Victor, as he tears his creation apart, recognizes her near-humanity: “I almost felt,” he says, “as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.” Chapter Summary N In this chapter, victor is forced to make a decision, he can make another creature and all of his worries will be gone. This is an important stage for victor because he has a chance to do something about his actions, the monster has told him that he is "in the wrong, but instead of threatening" him the monster tries to reason with him. This is crucial to the story because it is really the first time in which victor is able to see the creature's true humanity and there seems to be no real instance where anything the monster says is disagreeable with, including when he says "this passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that you are the cause of is excess". Which is him saying that it's victor's fault that people have died. I think Shelley uses this because it is what the general audience is thinking; therefore it creates sympathy with the monster. One of the key quotes in this chapter is "I...wished to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened". This could be interpreted as a metaphor about the differences between Frankenstein and his monster, the monster is good within but horrible on the outside, and the opposite seems to be true of Frankenstein. So when he recoils at the sight of the monster, it could be interpreted as him recoiling from himself. A Chapter 17 Chapter 20 Analysis Victor’s reluctance to begin his work on the female monster builds up a lot of tension surrounding it. This chapter does it well because very little happens in it, giving the reader a sense of impatience, synonymous with the patience of Frankenstein’s monster and it also creates an image of mystery surrounding the female monster. Victor’s reluctance to restart work could be because of all the consequences that were caused because of his actions before; it seems that
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