Volume 1

what happened in this volume was that we are introduced to who Victor Frankestein was and who his family was, this is when we are introduced to his two brothers and his parents, his brothers were called William and Ernest then we are told that his father is called Alphonse Frankestein and his wife Catherine, there was also a young girl which was called Elizabeth which was adopted by Alphonse Frankestein and Catherine because Alphons’ sister had passed away ,then it goes on to talk about how Victor is interested or more like marvelled at the mystical philosophers and alchemists.”…..”unfortunately these were all writers which his father would not be on the same page with so he wouldn’t agree with them. Unfortunately Elizabeth had been ill but even though she had survived this illness, Caroline(Frankesteins mother) had not been able to survive and passed away because she had caught it from Elizabeth. The dying of wish of Caroline had been that Frankestein would marry Elizabeth, but after this he went to a university which was when he met two professors which had introduced him to more modern science and this is when Frankestein completely changes his way of thinking about modern science and he starts gaining more information and knowledge about the Modern science ways. With this marvellous introduction to modern science he challenges himself to studying and working day and night to be able to understand the principle which he sought, which was the principle of life and after 2 years of pure hard labour and the act of neglecting the families for two years he finally found what he was looking for. As he achieves to somehow understand what the principle of life sort of is he goes unto creating a new race which would hold him high as his creator, Unfortunately as he created this new race he did not realise how horrific the creation truly was until after the monster actually opens his eyes, at the sight of this frightening monster he runs away from it. He was so fatigued after days of work that he fell asleep, he had a nightmare where he would see Elizabeth become into his dying mother in his own arms and worms would crawl out of her. Little did he know that the monster was standing next to his bed and he as he awakens because of it he runs away in horror. As he runs he encounters a friend called cleveral which travelled with him back to Frankenstein lodging, at this moment Victor could no longer see the monster and finally escaped. unfortunately on the return to his home in ingolstadt he finds out that they had found William dead strangled so they go to Geneva in an uneasy search for the murderer of his brother, then he spots his monster and assumes that the monster had done it but a servant of Victors family was accused of having been the murderer as she was found with the chain that William wore on that night that he was strangled. Victor knowing that he would be thought of as crazy he did not mention anything about his creation nor what he had done, the servant Justine was thought guilty and was executed, the two lives of his loved one and his servant rested heavily on his shoulders.

Volume 2

In this volume we are more seeing into the world of Victors creation and what hes going through, so the main theme here would be how he is not accepted by anyone, wherever he goes he would be rejected and people would run away from him, this was not what the creation had wanted for himself but it was what he had been born into, if you could say it like that. He didn’t want to be created but he was, so he had to find a way of being accepted. We see that at the beginning Victor goes into mont blanc in search for the monster he encounters it, but it wasn’t a very surprising nor calm encounter, the monster had a talk with its creation, and its pretty much what most people that believe in a creator would want, but if we were to think about it if our creator was to create us and run away from us and cause everyone to run away from us because of our appearance we would hate them completely no matter what excuse is given. The first encounter this monster had with any human was in a hut where he made all its inhabitants flee from it. Then he went into a small village where he was also rejected but in this village there were angry villagers which chased him down him, so the monster had to flee from them, then he went to take refuge in hovel ( this is a small constructed dwelling) where it would allow him to look unto a cottage. in this cottage he would overhear conversations where he was able to learn and quicken his knowledge about more human ways, this happened in the space of a year or so, where the monster had enough courage to go to it, in this cottage there was a blind man which lived there with his family, here before the monster is able to make his point and his case, Felix ( the son of the blind man) rushes in and quickly starts to beat the monster as he believed the father was being threatened, in a massive rage the monster goes and burns down the cottage in which this family had lived in. Then when the monster realises the origin of his creation his plans to return to geneva, and meet his creator, on his journey to Geneva he tries to save a girl that was drowning but was shot by the girls companion in the attempt to save the girls life. He also encounters a young boy called William Frankestein, this was Victor Frankesteins brother unfortunately the young brother called the monster hideous, in his attempt to escape what happens is that the monster kills the young boy and frames the servant, Justine for the murder. The creature demands a woman to be created for him but then Victor puts one condition to doing so, this was for The monster to leave Europe for ever.