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Frankenstein, chapter by chapter
All 29 chapters. What happens, in a line. Then each one in five words.
Walton writes to his sister from Russia. He is sailing to the North Pole for glory.
Walton sails for the Pole
The crew see a giant on a sledge. Then they rescue a half-dead man: Victor. He starts to tell his story.
Walton rescues Victor from ice
Victor's happy childhood in Geneva. His parents adopt a girl called Elizabeth.
Victor's happy Geneva childhood
Victor discovers old books of magic and science. His friend Henry Clerval. Lightning destroys a tree and he wants to know why.
Boy Victor hungry for knowledge
Victor's mother dies. He goes to university at Ingolstadt and throws himself into science.
Mother dies; Victor to university
Victor works out how to make life. He builds a body from dead parts and stops writing to his family.
Victor learns to create life
The creature comes alive on a November night. Victor is horrified and runs. Clerval arrives. Victor falls ill for months.
Creature lives; Victor flees, ill
A letter from Elizabeth. Victor gets better and studies languages with Clerval instead of science.
Victor recovers with Clerval
Victor's little brother William has been murdered. Victor sees the creature near Geneva and knows.
William murdered; Victor suspects creature
Justine, the family servant, is tried for the murder and hanged. Victor says nothing.
Justine hanged; Victor stays silent
Victor is crushed by guilt. He goes to the mountains to feel better.
Guilty Victor seeks the mountains
On the glacier the creature finds Victor. He asks Victor to listen to his story.
Creature confronts Victor on glacier
The creature's story. Born confused, driven out of villages, he hides by a cottage.
Creature's first days alone
He watches the De Lacey family and learns their words. He does their chores in secret.
Creature secretly helps the cottagers
A woman called Safie arrives. The creature learns to speak and read by listening to her lessons.
Creature learns language from Safie
He reads Paradise Lost and Victor's notes. He shows himself to the blind old man. The family comes back and beats him.
Creature rejected by the cottagers
Enraged, he burns the cottage. He saves a girl from a river and is shot. He meets William, kills him, and frames Justine.
Creature kills William, frames Justine
He asks Victor to make him a female companion. Victor agrees.
Creature demands a female companion
Victor delays. He travels to England with Clerval to do the work.
Victor travels to England, delaying
Victor goes alone to a remote Scottish island and starts building the female.
Victor builds the female in Scotland
Victor tears the female apart. The creature swears to be with him on his wedding night. Victor dumps the parts at sea and lands in Ireland.
Victor destroys her; creature threatens
Victor is arrested for murder. The body is Clerval. He is ill for months, then freed.
Clerval murdered; Victor arrested
Victor goes home and marries Elizabeth. He thinks the threat is to him.
Victor marries Elizabeth, expecting death
The creature kills Elizabeth on the wedding night. Victor's father dies of grief. Victor swears revenge.
Elizabeth murdered; father dies
Victor chases the creature north across the ice. He tells Walton to avoid ambition, and dies.
Victor chases creature, then dies
Walton's last letters. The creature comes to Victor's body, grieves, and goes out onto the ice to die.
Creature mourns Victor, departs
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