Frankenstein chapters 1-6

Summary:
Letter 1: Captain Robert Walton is on a scientific journey to the North and sends a series of letter to his sister Margaret about events occurring in his life.

Letter 2: Robert is feeling lonely and explains to his sister how no one is really like him.

Letter 3: He has finally started his voyage and he hopes to achieve his goals in discovering the unknown

Letter 4: One night Walton sees sleds pass by one with a huge figure on it. The next morning, one of the sleds is dead carrying a man who is weak. The shipmates bring him on board after he refuses and he recovers on the ship. Eventually, the man begins to tell his story.

Chapter 1: Victor Frankenstein, the mysterious man, begins his story with his family. His father was Alphonse, his mother Caroline and his cousin Elizabeth. At a young age, Elizabeth was left without a mother and was discovered by Caroline and she believes that Victor and Elizabeth should become married.

Chapter 2: Henry, Victor's best friend is introduced in this chapter and he continues to explain how he was a curious teenager intrigued by the mysteries of the world. He studied many alchemists from his fathers library of which were outdated. A family friend introduced the idea of electricity to him and it automatically interested him in a whole other aspect of science.

Chapter 3: Victor's mother, Caroline, fell very sick with scarlet fever and told victor that him and Elizabeth are to be married, Shortly after, Victor leaves to attend the University of Ingolstadt where he is ridiculed for studying such outdated information by a professor by the name of Krempe. Following this incident he attends a class of chemistry and becomes even more interested in the nature of science.

Chapter 4: Victor began to study life and the after life of living things and became very interested in anatomy. Frankenstein goes beyond his classroom walls to his apartment where he begins to create a creature and it becomes his life. Victor's family back in Geneva didn't matter anymore as well as his friends.

Chapter 5: After creating his living monster, it frightens him and he continues to have nightmares about his mother's death. Frankenstein terrified of his monster, flees his apartment and runs into his childhood best friend Henry. Victor becomes very ill and Henry takes care of him until he is able to function. Upon his recovery he received a letter from Elizabeth.

Chapter 6: Victor introduces Henry to his professors which worries him. The thought of science upsets Victor which causes him to return back to Geneva.





Things we start to see:

We learn that Victor can be so blindsided by certain events and forget what is really around him until he messes up. Elizabeth seems to be in love with him because of her concern for Frankenstein yet we have not heard about her since his departure from Geneva. Many things come to mind such as what happens to the monster and why is he frightened by his own creation.