Frankenstein: A Brief Summary

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who creates this creature out of human body parts. It takes Victor two years to create this creature. Two years of isolation, and being sick. The creature was huge, horrifying, horrendous. Once the creature came to life Victor turns his back to him in fear, and abandoned him. The creature feels antipathy to Victor for leaving him. He went after Victor's family for revenge on victor for abandoning him. Victor couldn’t go tell anyone who was doing these terrible things or else he would get in trouble for creating the Creature. Everything worsened when the creature sees how the humans treat him, he thinks it’s the normal way, so he treats people the same way. The creature feels alone, he asks Victor to create him a companion. When Victor denies his request, the creature went on a killing spree, he killed Elizabeth, and Clerval. Victor gets a raging madness for the Creature killing his wife, he decides he won’t stop until the creature is dead. Victor dies before killing the creature. He dies on a ship with Robert Walton. When …show more content…
Victor knows that the creature did this, but he also knows that if he goes and tells any official that this creature I created has killed someone he will get in arrested or maybe even given the death penalty. The creature wasn’t bad because this is what he learnt from humans. He learnt to be mean and rude and clearly to kill. Victor hides the truth and doesn’t tell anyone the cause of his brother’s death because he knows he will be accused and punished even though it wasn’t him who killed William. The creature not only learned from other people to act these ways he learnt from Victor. Victor abandoned him only because he was ugly and scary. Not only will the creature and Victor not be punished for what the creature did, Justine was punished. The creature framed her to make it look like she was the last person with
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