Summary
Chapter
1
The narrator is Victor Frankenstein. We
find out that his mother’s name is Caroline and his father’s name is Alphonse.
The couple married and shortly Victor was born two years after Caroline’s
father died due to poverty and he protected her. Elizabeth is Victor’s
childhood “companion”. She became part of the Frankenstein family when Victor
was four and she was adopted after he mother died. In fact, they found out
about Elizabeth when they were on a trip in Italy. She found out that she is a
orphan, but was the daughter of a German woman and a nobleman from Milan. So,
she adopts her and brigs her back to Geneva.
Chapter
2
Victor and Elizabeth become best friends as
they grow up. Another good friend he has is Henri, with whom he attends school.
When Victor becomes a teenager, he become very interested in nature. He then
reads a book written by Cornelius Agrippa who was a writer of
the sixteenth century, specializing in Science.
He then becomes interested in natural philosophy, studying findings of
alchemists. A modern natural philosopher, which is often with the Frankenstein
family explains his ideas. This made discoveries of the alchemists Victor
studies seem worthless.
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