Frankenstein.

 Frankenstein: Mary Shelley.

Plot Overview-

The story starts with the narration of story. Victor starts story from his childhood. He was born into Geneva. Victor grew up into rich family. As a young boy, Victor is obsessed with studying outdated theories that focus on simulating natural wonders. He likes to study nature and super natural strength. When Victor is four years old, his parents adopt an orphan, Elizabeth Lavenza. They lived happily in the family. Then victor fall in love with Elizabeth then he married to her.

Victor went to study at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. Before he leave he saw, witnessing a lightning strike on an oak tree inspires Victor to harness its power for his experiments. His mother dies of scarlet fever, creating further impetus towards his experiments. At university, he excels at chemistry and other sciences, soon developing a secret technique to reanimate dead tissue, which eventually leads to his creation of the Monster. It was very difficult to replace small parts of human body, so victor has decided to use big and large part of human body. So his creation became 8 feet tall. As a result, the beautiful creation of his dreams is instead hideous, with yellow eyes and skin.

After creating monster, victor saw him and shocked. Creature ran away from laboratory with books and clothes of victor. Because of monster’s ugly shape and look victor frightened from monster and fainted. As fainted, Victor falls ill from hard work of experience. He nursed back to health by his childhood friend, Henry Clerval.  After four – month recovery, he returns home in Geneva. Then he came to know about the murder of his bother William. Justine, William's nanny, is hanged for the crime after William's locket is found in her pocket. Victor visit at the crime scene when murder tool place.  Then he came to know that monster would have killed the William. Ravaged by grief and guilt, Victor retreats into the mountains. Here he met with Monster and monster narrate the whole story that how he lived, and how he has treated by society.

He told that when he went out from Laboratory he go outside. Here people hate him, beaten him. Because of monster’s ugly shape and size people did not accept his existence. People have beaten him and throw stones at him. Then he went outside city, went into forest. While living near a cottage, he grew fond of the family living there. The Creature learned to speak by listening to them and he taught himself to read after discovering a lost satchel of books. When he saw his reflection in a pool, he realized his physical appearance was hideous. Despite of his ugliness he tried to be friend of that family, but the family member was frightened and fled their home. The Creature then burned the cottage in a fit of rage. Monster has felt that everyone has left him, nobody wants to be his friend, nobody love him. So he wanted to take revenge from his creator, because his creator doesn’t care of his creation. So now he felt that it was his master’s responsibility to take care of him.  He also narrates the quotation of Paradise lost.

The monster told victor to make a female partner for the company. So that he can live happily with her. The monster has told that he would never come back and went far away from Victor. The Creature promises he and his mate will vanish into the South American wilderness, never to reappear, if Victor grants his request. Victor accepts it, then he tried again to create female partner for monster, but he thought that it will be very horrible to see Monster family. So he did not create the monster Clerval accompanies him to England, but they separate in Scotland. Victor suspects that the Monster is following him. Working on the female creature on the Orkney Islands, He destroys the female creature after he sees the Monster watching through a window.

The Monster confronts him, vowing to be with Victor and Elizabeth on their upcoming wedding night. The Monster then kills Clerval, leaving the corpse to be found where Victor lands in Ireland. Victor is imprisoned for Clerval's murder and suffers another mental breakdown in prison. After that he returns home with his father. In Geneva, Victor married with Elizabeth. Then Victor has told to Elizabeth to stay in the room, and went outside meanwhile the monster enter from window and murdered Elizabeth. Grief-stricken by the deaths of William, Justine, Clerval, and Elizabeth, Victor's father dies. Seeking revenge, Victor pursues the Monster to the North Pole; however, he does not kill his creation. Victor met Captain Walton, and then he died on ship. At the end of novel Monster met with Victor and went to the North Pole, and never came back.