Plot
Mr. White describes plot as the action, that which happens, in a literary work.
Allow me to give a short summary of the plot:
A young man on a ship comes across a man in the arctic who tells a crazy story started with his education and aspirations to animate the dead. He eventually gets a body together from old parts and after a good long time locked up in his lab he manages to bring his creation to life.
Allow me to give a short summary of the plot:
A young man on a ship comes across a man in the arctic who tells a crazy story started with his education and aspirations to animate the dead. He eventually gets a body together from old parts and after a good long time locked up in his lab he manages to bring his creation to life.
Once this creature is alive he leaves it because it's ugly and it scares him. He begins to regret making the monster more and more when bodies start piling up - mostly Victor's family members. Eventually he meets up with his monster again in the mountains and surprisingly the monster has educated itself and they speak together.
The monster demands a mate and eventually Victor begins to make one but after a while is so disgusted by it and his first monster that he destroys the parts he has and tosses them in the ocean. He is then arrested for the murder of his old friend because he wasn't the only one dumping bodies in the ocean that night (the monster was too).
The monster demands a mate and eventually Victor begins to make one but after a while is so disgusted by it and his first monster that he destroys the parts he has and tosses them in the ocean. He is then arrested for the murder of his old friend because he wasn't the only one dumping bodies in the ocean that night (the monster was too).
He is let loose to his father and is happy again briefly before the monster makes a vague threat at him about his wedding night. Victor believes he's going to die but marries his fiance anyway. That night she's the one that ends up dead and this makes his father fall ill and die as well.
Victor dedicates the rest of his life to revenge and follows his creature to the arctic where he is picked up by a passing ship and we've come full circle. Victor ends up dying later on the ship after telling his story.
Victor dedicates the rest of his life to revenge and follows his creature to the arctic where he is picked up by a passing ship and we've come full circle. Victor ends up dying later on the ship after telling his story.