| Theme | Key passages (search in PDF) | |-------|-------------------------------| | | “his yellow skin”, “luxuriances of nature”, “demonical corpse” | | Creation & abandonment | “I fled”, “accursed creator”, “miserable, unhappy wretch” | | Doubles & doppelgängers | “We are unfashioned creatures”, “I ought to be thy Adam” | | Nature vs. science | “Penetrating into the recesses of nature”, “filthy creation” | | Justice & revenge | “I will be with you on your wedding-night”, “slave, not master” |
Victor is a brilliant but obsessed student who discovers the secret of animating life. He creates a sentient being, but is immediately horrified by its appearance and abandons it. The "monster," intelligent and sensitive, wanders the wilderness, learning language and human behavior from a distance. Rejected by society and his creator, he turns to vengeance, demanding Frankenstein create a female companion for him or suffer the loss of his loved ones. frankenstein book pdf