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Title: Frankenstein


1
Frankenstein
  • Pages 134-154

2
Victors Response
  • I do refuse itand no torture shall ever extort
    a consent from me. You may render me the most
    miserable of men, but you shall never make me
    base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like
    yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate
    the world. Begone! I have answered you you may
    torture me, but I will never consent. (134)
  • Concerned that the monsters would breed

3
The Monsters Plea
  • Believes he is owed companionship
  • Promises to avoid humanity
  • Will move to South America

4
Victors Decision
  • I thought that as I could not sympathize with
    him, I had no right to withhold from him the
    small portion of happiness which was yet in my
    power to bestow. (136)
  • After a long pause of reflection I concluded
    that the justice due both to him and my fellow
    creatures demanded of me that I should comply
    with his request. (137)
  • Is this the right decision?

5
Victor and Elizabeth
  • My dear father, reassure yourself. I love my
    cousin tenderly and sincerely. I never saw any
    woman who excited, as Elizabeth does, my warmest
    admiration and affection. My future hopes and
    prospects are entirely bound up in the
    expectation of our union. (140)
  • Victors father wants the marriage to occur soon
    in order to bring happiness to the family.

6
Victor and Elizabeth
  • Victors Feelings
  • Alas! To me the idea of an immediate union with
    my Elizabeth was one of horror and dismay. I was
    bound by a solemn promise which I had not yet
    fulfilled and dared not break, or if I did, what
    manifold miseries might not impend over me and my
    devoted family!...I must perform my engagement
    and let the monster depart with his mate before I
    allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union
    from which I expected peace. (141)

7
Victors Plan
  • Receives permission from his father to travel to
    England
  • Victors father arranges for Clerval to travel
    with Victor

8
Foreshadowing
  • And where does he now (Clerval) exist? Is this
    gentle and lovely being lost foreveryour form so
    divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has
    decayed, but your spirit still visits and
    consoles your unhappy friend. (146)
  • The death of Clerval?

9
Nature Imagery
  • On their journey, both Victor and Clerval are
    genuinely moved by nature
  • Victor quotes Wordsworths Tintern Abbey
  • Prior knowledge of Wordsworth
  • Nature Poet
  • Romantic Age
  • An intimate relationship with nature teaches us
    about ourselves

10
Victors Laboratory
  • Asks Clerval to leave him for a few months
  • Rents a few cottages in a remote part of Scotland
    to make the female creature
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