10-05-2021

The main difference between the novel, short story, and essay is that a short
story deals with only one plot or only one character, or only one theme, but a
novel deals with several plots, characters, and themes.
Novel deals with a larger canvas of life which deals with the social, economical,
and political reality of the time.
Often the novel acquires the name from the original character about whom
the story is, for instance, David Copperfield, its a novel about the life of David
Copperfield.
Novels mainly get their names from the principal character, though the
protagonist.
Naturalism is a movement different from realism. It tries t imitate the nature of
reality it closely tries to approximate reality close to the nature of reality. It is a
kind of restraint in its narrative descriptions. This literary movement started in
1865 and goes on till 1900. Ice can call naturalism to be detailed realism.
In Short Stories like O Henry’s Half Leaves, a particular incident is picked up to
critique the surroundings.
She talked about several novels to make us understand the various aspects of
novels I.e. The Long Revolution by Raymon Williams,

17-05-2021

A novella is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

A singular incident is taken as the epiphanic moment to explore the complexity
of the short story. But in a novel the narrative aces, the life of a protagonist,
and goes through a series of incidents. In a novel, a large number of the
canvas of life is depicted. In a short story, and a novel, a protagonist can
explain the story, he/she can be the main exponent of the team. We can say
commentary is continuously made in the novel, and there is an omniscient kind
of narrator is present. Many characters could be seen in a novella and a novel,
but they may be absent in the case of a short story. The short story deals with
only an incident
Last Leaf by O Henry (short story), and Gift of the Magi by O Henry are some
examples of short stories. Gift of the Magi by O Henry describes a singular
incident of Christmas Eve(the idea of giving a gift on Christmas).
Talking about the novella, the Broken Homes(Nastanirh in Bengali) by
Rabindranath Tagore takes place in late 19th century India and tells the tale of
a lonely housewife Charu (short for Charulata).
Charu and her rather detached, older husband Bhupati live a quiet, well-to-do
life. She is a very beautiful woman, with tons of money and all the time in the
world to enjoy her passions – the arts, literature, and poetry. Yet her
workaholic husband seems to be more concerned with his job than his
marriage. And alas, she is all alone, ailing from that distasteful disorder of
ennui that seemingly plagues so many kept women.
However, the sun shines a bit brighter for our heroine when Bhupati’s young,
handsome cousin Amal arrives for a visit. Bhupati, who is far from a heartless
man and feels sympathy for his wife’s cheerless plight, encourages his cousin
to befriend his wife as they both have so much in common (he loves poetry
and the arts as well).  Finally, we see Charulata happy, singing, playful, and
tending to Amol, mending his clothes and inspiring him to continue writing.
Her innocent flirtations catch her off-guard as she becomes deeply attached to
Amol. Amol also realizes that his emotions are leading him astray. After
Bhupati is ruined when his brother-in-law, whom he trusted and loved, makes
off with the newspaper’s money, Amol decides to leave, not wanting to take
away from Bhupati his “other” wife. Charulata is crushed by Amol’s departure
and inadvertently betrays her emotions to Bhupati. Bhupati is completely
disillusioned by these reversals of trust and love. Their marriage is severed.

Nastanirh takes place in late 19th-century Bengal and explores the lives of the
Bhadralok, Bengalis of wealth who were part of the Bengal Renaissance and
highly influenced by the Brahmo Samaj. Despite his liberal ideas, Bhupati is
blind to the loneliness and dissatisfaction of his wife Charu. It is only with the
appearance of his cousin Amal, who incites passionate feelings in Charu, that
Bhupati realizes what he has lost.
It was later adapted to the movie Charulata in 1964 by Satyajit Ray.
This novella critiques the notion of arrange marriages, and particularly the age
discrepancies which we have in the marriages.
Talking about the novel, Madame Bovary, a novel by Gustave Flaubert, we
have a word bovarism meaning a person who keeps fluttering around like a
butterfly, attracting attention for himself.

Madame Bovary tells the bleak story of a marriage that ends in tragedy.
Charles Bovary, a good-hearted but dull and unambitious doctor with a meager
practice, marries Emma, a beautiful farm girl raised in a convent. Although she
anticipates marriage as a life of adventure, she soon finds that her only
excitement derives from the flights of fancy she takes while reading
sentimental romantic novels. She grows increasingly bored and unhappy with
her middle-class existence, and even the birth of their daughter, Berthe, brings
Emma little joy.
Grasping for idealized intimacy, Emma begins to act out her romantic fantasies
and embarks on an ultimately disastrous love affair with Rodolphe, a local
landowner. She makes enthusiastic plans for them to run away together, but
Rodolphe has grown tired of her and ends the relationship. A shocked Emma
develops brain fever and is bedridden for more than a month. She later takes
up with Léon, a former acquaintance, and her life becomes increasingly
chaotic. She embraces abstractions—passion, happiness—and ignores material
reality itself, as symbolized by money. She is utterly incapable of distinguishing
between her romantic ideals and the harsh realities of her life even as her
interest in Léon wanes. Her debts having spun out of control, she begs for
money, but all turn her down, including Léon and Rodolphe. With seemingly
nowhere to turn and on the verge of financial ruin and public disclosure of her
private life, Emma swallows arsenic and dies a painful death.
A grief-stricken Charles, who has been blindly unaware of Emma’s affairs,
remains devoted to his deceased wife even as he struggles to pay her debts.
After discovering love letters from Rodolphe and Léon, he becomes
increasingly despondent but blames Emma’s affairs on fate. Shortly thereafter
he dies, and Berthe ultimately ends up working at a cotton factory.
In this novel, not only one incident, but a number of incidents take place and
the writer talks about them very deeply to plant interest in readers.

24-05-2021

Early feminist writer, Mary Shelly wrote Vindication of Women, which is

afterward termed as a pamphlet, for society and gender equality.
In the Vindication of the Women, she writes clearly women from the upper
classes are frivolous in nature. All the day they do is wear pretty clothes and
their children are looked after nannies, and her work is more like that for a
domestic manager . She mentioned them as empty vessels with absolutely no
work. All they have tea parties and night parties and chill.
Theme of Frankenstein
* Accountable Parenting -Parenting does not only include growing them up.
One needs to be able to justify his/her actions and decisions and so do on kids.
One also needs to be in control of his/her decisions. The book demonstrates
that lack of connection to either family or society leads to murder, tragedy,
and despair. Frankenstein presents family relationships as central to human
life.
Mary Shelly contested the idea of family in the book Frankenstein.

25-05-2021

In German, the name Frankenstein translates to “stronghold of freemen,” most

likely referring to various castles and battlements around the country that also
carry the name.
Mary Shelley however, believed the name came to her in a vivid dream. In
Shelley’s novel, Dr. Victor Frankenstein never names his creation. Instead, he
disowns the monster by refusing to name it, referring to it as “demon,”
“thing,” “wretched devil,” and a long list of awful aliases.

Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein and his obsession with creating
life. He sews various body parts to create a creature and infuses life into it. But
the first sight of his creation horrifies Frankenstein. He understands the
enormity of what he has done and runs away. The creature is gone when he
returns and for a while Frankenstein is happy.
The creature tries to befriend humans but realizing that its appearance
horrifies people, stays in hiding. Tired of this lonely life, the creature begs
Frankenstein for a companion. Frankenstein, himself on the verge of getting
married, agrees to do this. Minutes before infusing life into it, however,
Frankenstein realizes the danger of unleashing another monster on the world
and destroys it. This angers the creature and he vows revenge. The creature
follows Frankenstein and kills his newly-wed wife, and later, his friend.
Frankenstein’s father dies of shock. All alone now, Frankenstein sets out to
destroy the monster he has created and make the world a safe place. He
follows the monster to the North Pole but dies there. The monster
understands that with the death of its creator it is doomed to a lonely,
hopeless existence and declares that death is its only option now.

The story is not narrated in the traditional format, but rather through letters.
These are written by a man called Walton who is on a ship to the North Pole
and saves Frankenstein. As Frankenstein recovers, he narrates his story to
Walton. Walton conveys this story to his sister through a series of letters. The
readers therefore never really get to meet any of the principal characters in
the book, but only learn of them through the letters. The book, considered an
early example of science fiction, has inspired many adaptations for the silver
screen. The phrase ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ is today used to refer to
something that becomes dangerous to its maker.
Frankenstein is a thought-provoking book and forces readers to wonder —
who is the real monster? The creature or his creator? And this is perhaps the
secret of this novel’s continuing popularity, 200 years after it was first
published. The creature is referred to as ‘monster’, ‘fiend’ or ‘demon.’ It is
intelligent and learns to read and speak and think logically.

31-05-2021

‘Theme’ is a central idea present in a literary piece. It serves as an essential

ingredient that makes a story appealing and persuasive. Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley has various themes woven together to complete a narrative that
teaches value, warns of possible consequences of abusing science or
intelligence, highlights a futuristic outlook.
Themes:
1. Creation - The theme of creation is at the centre of the novel Frankenstein.
The story shows how Victor creates a monster and instils life in it after gaining
scientific knowledge of life at Ingolstadt.
2. Alienation-
3. Isolation
4. Crossing Boundaries- Mary Shelley has very beautifully woven the idea of
crossing limits in this novel. Through Victor Frankenstein, she explains that
humans have certain limits despite grand ambitions. When these limits are
crossed, the natural order is destroyed. This interruption rebounds when the
limits are crossed.
5. Ambition
6. Injustice
7. Responsibility
8. Natural Laws
9. Parental Responsibility- Parental responsibility is another theme apparent in
the upbringing of Victor Frankenstein. His father, Alphonse Frankenstein, has
done his best to educate him in the top university Ingolstadt to study science.
Victor whole-heartedly completes his education which shows his good
upbringing.
10. Revenge

At the very beginning of the novel, Marry frames it in a particular way. Framing
of the narrative is very intricate. Through the role of Walton, who is a captain,
an English captain of a ship which is in the Artic region, exploring the polar
regions. And the introduction is quoted a paragraph from page seven which
almost makes the polar region more eternal. The splendour Mary share
imagines is the time of the year when the sun in shining over the Tropic of
Cancer, creating this 24 hours daylight or 24 hours illumination in the polar
regions and it seems unreal. That paradise was akin to this paradise could be
no different from being beautiful. A site where the heavenly bodies can be
seen very clearly.
So Mary Shelley had this idea that it was possible through exploration,
Maritime navigation, to find such a place of beauty that existed in the
Prelapsarian world.

The framing of the story as already mentioned is an intricate kind of layering, it

is structured like a story within a story.
The first narrator is Walton and the second narrator is Frankenstein who is a
doctor, who is rescued by Walton because he finds a man drowning and in the
sea and he in the cold, icy water of the polar region, and he rushes to save him,
pull him across the deck and the sees that he has rain fever and nurses him.
Titan-Children of Uranus and Earth
According to Hesiod's Theogony, there were 12 original Titans: the brothers
Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus, and the sisters Thea,
Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.

01-06-2021

What is the correlation between Prometheus and Victor Frankenstein?

In classical mythology, Prometheus is attributed as the creator of mankind. He
formed the first men out of clay from the earth, which Athena has then
breathed life into. As the father of mankind, Prometheus cared for them and
taught them the arts necessary to survive, like plowing and harvesting a field,
hunting, and building homes. The story continues with Prometheus’s theft of
fire, for which Zeus punished him. He steals fire from the gods to give to man
to encourage and enable them to prosper, learn, and discover new things.

The subtitle functions as an appositive to the primary title; Shelley likens

Frankenstein to the classical father of mankind. The most obvious correlation is
that both figures form a living being out of lifeless material. Frankenstein’s
ambitions are aimed towards “a new species [that] would bless me as its
creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being
to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should
deserve of theirs”

In the Romantic era, Prometheus came to be regarded as a symbol of

civilization and intelligence, as well as scientific knowledge. Victor himself, in
his early studies, felt as though “the world was to me was a secret, which I
desired to discover” (66). His longing to learn the secrets of the world led him
to look beyond what was natural for man to achieve. He longed to go deeper
into scientific knowledge and expand the possibilities of human civilization. But
like with Prometheus, going beyond the natural limits of man results in
consequences. Prometheus was punished for loving his creation too well by
giving him the necessities for progress. Frankenstein, on the other hand, is
disgusted by his work, and his work will eventually turn on him.
By likening Frankenstein to a “Modern Prometheus”, is Shelley doing more
than just drawing a comparison, or is she commenting on the nature of man’s
pursuits of knowledge? Is the “Modern” state of man’s creation beneficial or
detrimental to a healthy civilization?

The novel is dedicated to Mary Shelley’s father. The title of the book that
William Godwin has written is mentioned in “Authors of Political Justice.
She puts a non-fictional piece and a fictional piece together as a tribute to her
father because she owed her education.

07-06-2021

KEY PLOT
*Robert Walton, an explorer, tells how he has met Victor Frankenstein(he
nursed him as he found Frankenstein drowning in the icy water), he was found
in the Arctic after earlier having seen a 'gigantic figure' crossing the ice.
* Victor tells of his childhood and his caring family, particularly of his love for
his foster sister Elizabeth. His mother dies of fever just before he leaves to
study at university.
* While at university, Victor's interest in science becomes an obsession. Victor
uses dead bodies to experiment on and creates a monster made of body parts.
He is immediately disgusted by the thing he has created and abandons it.
* Victor's brother William is murdered and Justine Moritz, a family servant, is
executed for it. However, Victor believes the Monster is to blame after
witnessing it at the scene of the murder.
* The Monster and Victor meet on the Glacier of Montanvert in the Alps. The
Monster tells the story of how it has survived and of the time it has spent
becoming educated.
* The Monster asks Victor to admit responsibility for his actions and show
some sympathy. He also pleads with Victor to build a female companion. Victor
agrees.
* Victor finds a remote spot in the Orkneys where he begins to construct the
female creature but suddenly, realizing the consequences of what he is doing,
he tears it to pieces. The Monster, who has followed Victor, is enraged and in
revenge kills Victor's best friend, Henry Clerval.
* Victor and Elizabeth marry, but Victor finds his new wife dead at the hands of
the Monster. He vows to hunt the creature down.
* In Walton's last letters, back in the Arctic, Frankenstein dies and the Monster,
still miserable, heads off, probably to its own death.
The story starts with the autobiographical kind of mode where the protagonist
takes the subject position and refers to himself as I.

Chapter 1
It starts with the stranger, Victor Frankenstein, who says he was born in Naples
and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. His father, Alphonse, and his mother,
Caroline, first became close when Alphonse's friend and Caroline's father,
Beaufort, died. Alphonse became Caroline's protector and eventually married
her.
When he was five, his mother discovered a beautiful blond orphan girl named
Elizabeth Lavenza in an Italian village and adopted her.
Victor, his parents, and all the Frankensteins adored Elizabeth. She became to
him a "more than sister." The two children referred to each other as cousins,
rather than brother and sister

08-06-2021

Elizabeth Lavenza
Victor's sister by adoption, and later his wife. Elizabeth is a stunningly beautiful
and remarkably pure girl whom Victor's mother adopts. All the Frankensteins
adore Elizabeth, and Victor quickly begins to "protect, love, and cherish" her.
Eventually, Victor and Elizabeth marry. Through all of it, Elizabeth remains
gorgeous, pure, and passive.
When Caroline dies of scarlet fever, contracted from Elizabeth, Elizabeth is
immediately placed in the maternal role of the Frankenstein family. 
Elizabeth's feminine role in Frankenstein is clearly presented from the
beginning of the novel. Caroline describes her as "the most beautiful child she
had ever seen," with an affectionate and gentle disposition (Shelley, 19).
Elizabeth is characterized as an angelic, beautiful woman from a young age.
Some critics find Elizabeth to be passive in nature, presenting the role of
women as secondary to men. She is found to be most passive specifically in her
relationship with Victor.
Elizabeth, while she might be viewed as a passive female figure, actively
sacrifices much of her life for the Frankenstein family throughout the novel.

Victor Frankenstein
The eldest son in the Frankenstein family, the eventual husband of Elizabeth
Lavenza, and the novel's protagonist and narrator of most of the story (he tells
his story to Robert Walton, who relates it to the reader). From childhood,
Victor has a thirst for knowledge and powerful ambition. These two traits lead
him to study biology at university in Ingolstadt, where he eventually discovers
the "secret of life" and then uses that knowledge to create his own living
being. But Frankenstein is also prejudiced, and cannot stand his creation's
ugliness. He thinks it a monster though in fact, it's kind and loving. Victor's
abandonment of his "monster" creates a cycle of guilt, anger, and destruction,
in which first the monster takes vengeance upon Victor, and then Victor
swears vengeance on the monster. In the end, Victor resembles the monster
he hates far more than he would care to imagine.
Cornelius Agrippa was a German theologian and polymath who also wrote
about occult sciences. He wrote about magic and raised several questions with
regards to the existing information about occultism at the time. Mary Shelley
compared Victory to Agrippa as he was the one who studied science at that
time.

12-06-2021

Summary of Chapter 1
The stranger, Victor Frankenstein, says he was born in Naples and grew up in
Geneva, Switzerland. His father, Alphonse, and his mother, Caroline, first
became close when Alphonse's friend and Caroline's father, Beaufort, died.
Alphonse became Caroline's protector, and eventually married her.
When he was five, his mother discovered a beautiful blond orphan girl named
Elizabeth Lavenza in an Italian village and adopted her.
Victor, his parents, and all the Frankensteins adored Elizabeth. She became to
him a "more than sister." The two children referred to each other as cousins,
rather than brother and sister.

Summary of Chapter 2

Around the age of seven, Victor's younger brother is born. Up to this point, he
and Elizabeth have been the primary receivers of their parents' love. Their
parents decide to settle down in Geneva to concentrate on raising their family.
Victor introduces his life-long friend Henry Clerval, a creative child who studies
literature and folklore.
At the age of 13, Victor discovers the works of Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus,
and Albertus Magnus, all alchemists from an earlier age. His voracious appetite
for knowledge thus begins, and eventually leads him to study science and
alchemy. At age 15, Victor witnesses an electrical storm that piques his interest
in electricity and possible applications for its use.

(Cornelius Agrippa was a German theologian and polymath who also wrote
about occult sciences. He wrote about magic and raised several questions with
regards to the existing information about occultism at the time._* Mary
Shelley compared Victory to Agrippa as he was the one who studied science at
that time. )

Summary of Chapter 3
Victor is now 17 years old and ready to become a student at the University of
Ingolstadt in Ingolstadt, Germany (near Munich), but an outbreak of scarlet
fever at home delays his departure. His mother and "cousin" both fight the
disease; Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein(Victor’s mother) dies, and Elizabeth
recovers. Before Caroline dies, she reveals her unrealized plans for the
marriage of Victor and Elizabeth by saying, "my firmest hopes of the future
happiness were placed on the prospect of your union."
Elizabeth becomes the family caretaker upon Caroline's death. Victor finds it
hard to say goodbye to his family and dear friend, but he sets out for Ingolstadt
to begin his studies in science.

In the beginning, it deals with the preoccupation that V. Frankenstein has with
natural philosophy and the subject of chemistry in particular. Reading ardently
becomes a kind of a ‘fatal passion’ for him. This wins the attention of his
teachers, he is very religious in attending the lectures delivered in the
university and he ‘cultivated’ the acquaintance that is he actively worked and
pursued in winning the attention or approval with M. Krempe and Waldman.
Krempe seemed to be a man of good sense and knowledge and he counted
Waldman as a true friend. Waldam had an open and frank nature, this amiable
character made Frankenstein more inclined to the branch of philosophy. HE
was so engrossed that he could not see the hours of darkness has moved on
and it has become morning but he would continuously read 24 hours a day.
Victor meets his mentors, Professor M. Krempe and Professor M. Waldman, at
the university. He does not like Krempe, who tells Victor that his previous
studies have all been a waste of time. Yet Victor then attends a class with M.
Waldman, a chemistry professor, whose lecture on the power and recent
successes of science inspires Victor to dedicate himself to revealing "to the
world the deepest mysteries of creation." The next day Victor visits Waldman,
who supports his plan.

Summary of Chapter 4
M.Krempe in a good-humored way addressed Frakestein as Cornelius Agrippa.
Victor becomes so caught up in natural philosophy that he ignores everything
else, including his family. He progresses rapidly, and suddenly after two years
of work he discovers the secret to creating life. Visiting morgues and
cemeteries for the necessary body parts, Victor fails several times before
successfully bringing his creation to life.

Since the time he came to Ingolstadt he paid no visit to Geneva. 2 years were
almost over. This absence from his home and also the absence of feminine
ministration of Elizabeth made him move away from the natural dynamics of
life and pushes him towards the darker aspects of knowledge, the sinister
aspects of knowledge which made the theological proposition of knowledge
itself being forbidden subject for people to double in. His tenacity and
diligence with the subjects soon made him progressive and he made certain
discoveries in improving certain chemical instruments and this won him great
esteem and admiration at the university. Soon enough he became almost an
equal with the teachers at Ingolstadt and he knew it was time to move on
when an incident happened(this is the phrase that marked the turn in the
narrative)
Marry Shelly works fantastically by drawing certain parallels which run
simultaneously in the narrative or she draws contrastive elements to tease us
into shocking acceptance of the contrary.
Now when Victor thought he is going to turn over a new leaf, we stumble upon
the phrase “to his native town but to prolong his stay in Ingolstadt itself”,
dramatic tone with which marry shelly inserts which inspired him to keep
pursuing and encouraged him to go ahead. He questioned human anatomy and
physiology.
The phrase “almost supernatural enthusiasm” and “Fatal passion” marks the
way he uses to describe his occupation or engagement with scholarly activities
in Ingolstadt. His fascination with the science of anatomy and physiology
pushes him to spend time in morgues.
The conversational tone comes in and it shows Victor is reliving his life and
while he is reliving his life, he is retelling the moments of his life and the
listener is the English Captain Walton. Marry Shelly makes an intersection
thematically by converging the two narratives. We remember through the
letter Walton told his sister that he desired to be the discoverer of some
wondrous passage in the glacial knot which would open up the root and
connect the lands in the polar region with those in the temperate climes and
here is the reference to holding on to the knowledge he has acquired because
he with his bitter experience now knows how important the acquirement of
knowledge really is.
Before creating the creature he was trying to think what kind of creature
would he try to create, would he create a simple cellular life or would he try to
create a complex kind of a creature. And he tried to imitate God and creates an
image in his lightness and he chooses to create a man of gigantic stature, with
the 8ft height and of equivalent proportion.
This feverish rush he felt as he collected and put together his materials is
described in the unnatural rush of moments like the torrent or the hurricane.
The moment he was able to cross this threshold between life and death he felt
that this torrent illuminated our dark world(ignorant world).

Victor decides to build a race of beings, starting with one creature. He spends
months alone in his apartment building a body to reanimate, spurred on by the
lure of fame and glory, imagining a "new species" that will bless him as its
creator.
The lines, “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many
happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could
claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”
The important word here is “gratitude” in the sense that our parent nurtures
us from infancy to adulthood and because they nurture us, they sustain us
when are helpless infants, we owe our gratitude to them. So, Victor starts
expecting the ’gratitude’ out of the species he is going to create. Here Marry
Shelly questions theological orders which propagate the idea of gratitude in
such a manner that it is considered to be extremely sinful or disloyal to be not
grateful or loyal to your parent or creator. This kind of authoritarian
subjugation is called into radical question. While there is this sense of gratitude
that is demanded, Victor is in raptures because he imagines being lord and
master to a whole generation of new species who would be singing praises for
him yet later we see he abstains from being a nurturing parent. This feverish
imagination of creating a new life pushes him into a chamber where he loses
all human companionship and in his laboratory he kept working on joining the
materials that he has collected from the descending room or the
slaughterhouse. He felt that his job was now at its conclusion, now he would
be able to create a creature that would be capable of pulsating life. The
unnaturalness of his activity is again counterpointed with the narrative frame
of The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner By Coleridge.
The horrors of his engagement made him blind to the beauty of the seasons.
In the heartiness of a November night, his accomplishment comes to a full
circle. After months of effort, Victor is successful in bringing his creature to life.
But once alive, the creature's appearance horrifies him—he thinks of it as a
monster. The pattering sound of the rain creates a kind of sound that
heightens the eeriness of that lonely night. The candle is almost burnt out, and
the burning out of the candle is a metaphor because it implies the burnt-out
condition of the creator. In the dull half-night, he sees the dull yellow eyes of
the creation, that is it in the eyes of illness and unnaturalness. The creature
becomes “it” so it becomes uncertain whether this creature is a man or
woman. So it is a desert ungendered form of life
Victor runs from the room and tries to sleep, but nightmares of death and
tombs wake him, and he opens his eyes to see the monster by his bed,
reaching out and grinning. He runs and spends the night outside. “Hideous”
“Mummy” “Ugly” etc are the words with which the creature is described. The
dull yellow eyes of the creature are in sharp contrast with the silvery
brightness of the moons.
The next morning, Victor goes for a walk. He can't seem to be able to stand
being in the same room as someone so ugly.
In town, in one of many remarkably convenient coincidences in this book,
Victor runs into his dear old buddy Henry Clerval near the town inn. Henry has
come to study at Ingolstadt.
Victor checks to see if the monster is still in his apartment, and is overjoyed to
find that it isn't. He invites Clerval up, but once there falls ill with a "nervous
fever," which lasts for months. Clerval nurses him, not revealing the illness to
anyone. When Victor recovers, Clerval asks Victor to send a letter to his father
and family and gives him a letter from Elizabeth.

The theme of Male bonding again comes in. While the relation between
Walton and victor is one of a caregiver. That is Walton is nursing Victor back to
health. We find him again being taken care of by Henry Clerval and he is the
one who manages to rehabilitate him and nurse him back to health. With his
health coming back we have a possibility of hope. With the possibility of health
and renewal, we have the possibility of seeking mercy and redemption.
Now he receives the letter from Elizabeth and her letter is in sharp contrast to
the situation in Ingolstadt. Almost three years or more have elapsed since he
left his home. Now the theme of marriage appears as a minor subplot here
telling us what is lying in Elizabeth's fate gets married to her cousin Victor F
because on the night of marriage when it is supposed to get solemnized she
gets killed.

Chapter 6
She uncritically assimilates the villainy of the Turk.
When the monster tells the old man about his tale he asks him about his
nationality.

Earlier the monster was chasing the creator now the creator is chasing the
monster. The creature sees no reason as to why he should survive when he
learns about the death of Victor. HE cremates himself and the ship people
could see the flames wrapping up his huge figure.
The self-abhorrence is the worst hell one can have