Frankenstein Notes Chapters 22-24

These are the last notes for the novel. We will take a major test on the novel after the review and have a mini project that will be due after the test
Chapters 22-24

• Alphonse and Victor land in Paris.
• Alphonse tries to relieve some of Victor’s despair through tourist activities.
• V talks of hating the face of mankind – he says people repulse him.
• V tells his dad that William, Justine, Henry all died because of him.
• Dad tells V not to act so insane, and V denies that he is acting that way.
• V receives a letter from Elizabeth. She wonders if he loves someone else and says that she will understand if he does, but that she will love him forever.
• V thinks of the monster’s wedding night threat, and thinks that if he dies, then maybe the monster will go away.
• V returns home, marries Elizabeth, and still hears the echoes of the wedding night threat.
• V and Elizabeth plan to stay one night at Evian, and then take their honeymoon trip.

23:
• The honeymooners arrive in Evian, and as it begins to rain, V decides to patrol outside with a pistol.
• While outside, he hears Elizabeth shriek, and he returns to their room to find her dead with marks on her neck like all of the other monster’s victims.
• V sees the monster, fiendishly grinning, and tries to shoot him but he disappears.
• V fears for his brother Ernest’s and his father’s life and he returns to Geneva, where his father dies from grief over Elizabeth’s death.
• V visits a judge, hoping to get help finding his destroyer, but after listening to his story, the judge says he cannot help.

24:

• Revenge is all V can think of and he wants to leave Geneva forever, but visits the family graves one more time where he vows to live to enact revenge.
• Hears Monster’s fiendish laugh, pursues the creature, sees him hiding in a ship bound for the Black Sea.
• Follows creature through Russia and beyond (North Pole).
• Creature leaves a trail for him, notes carved in trees, “My reign is not over.”
• V buys a sledge, with dogs, and prepares to travel on ice. Talks to some people in a small town who tell of a creature(who has weapons) attacking them, and stealing all of their winter food.
• V searches for about 3 weeks, sees a dark speck on the snow far away, and tries to follows. The monster escapes his pursuits.
• V’s dogs die, he hacks up the sledge to make oars and a raft.
• Victor gets rescued by Walton
• Now, Walton takes over as the narrator
• Walton hears Victor’s tale and knows the truth of it because of the letters of Felix and Safie.
• It takes about a week for Walton to hear Victor’s story.
• Walton talks of V’s incredible knowledge about literature and his amazing eloquence.
• V thanks W for listening to him and continues to decline in health.
• Sailors demand that Walton go southward away from the ice, and threaten to mutiny if he does not.
• Victor chastises the sailors for not trusting Walton’s judgment as a captain.
• Before V dies, he asks Walton to destroy the monster.
• Walton sees the monster’s huge form looking at Victor’s body, and asks him to stay.
• The monster tells Walton his final story, and states. “Evil will thenceforth become my good.” Monster tells of his own misery and admits to being a wretch. Tells Walton he plans to go as far north as possible, and he leaves the cabin never to be seen again.