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Final Chapter: Walton takes up the story. Their ship is trapped in the ice and in danger of being crushed. The crew demand that Walton return to England if the ice clears and they survivwe. Frankenstein is exhausted but initially urges them to continue their adventure but then becomes weak and dies. The monster appears and declares his guilt and misery. He leaves on an ice floe intending to immolate himself.

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Chapter 6: Victor awaits an encounter with the monster. Elizabeth is murdered. The monster mocks him and flees.

Chaptrer 7: Victor is determined to revenge himself an sets of to pursue the monster. He travels huge distances and is helped in the pursuit by the goodwill of local people but also by the monster who leaves mocking messages for him. The monster leads him to the fozen north where, eventually, Victor finds the ship which rescues him.

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Chapter 5: Frankenstein returns to Geneva with his father. Elizabeth writes to ask whether his misery is because he is in love with someone else. He reassures her that that is not the cause of his misery. He decides to marry her quickly even though the monster has threatened to be there on his wedding night. The wedding takes place and they take a boat actoss the lake to Evian where they will sleep.

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Chapter 4: Frankenstein is shown the corpse of the dead man and sees it is henry Clerval who has been strangled just as his brother William had been. He is imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Eventually, as he recovers from the shock, his father comes to visit. He can prove that he was on Orkney at the time Henry was murdered and not in Ireland and is therefore freed. He sets out to return to Geneva with his father.

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Chapter 2: Frankenstein visits London, Oxford and other cities, with Henry Clerval, and they travel up to Scotland. Once there, Frankenstein decides that he must travel on alone and start to create the female he promised the monster.

Chapter 3: On Orkney he finds a small village where he can hire a cottage. He starts to create the female but one evening he sees the monster peering in through his window, having followed him from Europe. In a state of agitation Frankenstein destroys the half made femaile. He refuses to create it and the monster threatens him and leaves. Frankenstein takes a boat to drop the parts of the female in the sea but is blown away and lands eventually in Ireland. He finds he is not welcome.

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Chapter 8: Frankenstein is persuaded to create a female companion for the monster

Chapter 1 (Volume 3): Frnakenstein travels to England to learn more. He takes his equipment with him to create the female and travels with his friend Henry Clerval.

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Chapter 6: The monster keys himself up to present himself to the cottagers he has been watching, hoping that they will befriend him. When he eventually does so, they reject him and he becomes enraged. He burns their cottage down and goes to roam in the forest.

Chapter 7: Looking for his creator, he travels to Geneva. Before entering the town he comes across a child and tries to befriend him. The child is horrified and the monster, again enraged, kills him. He is entranced by the miniature of a beautiful woman hanging around the child's neck and takes it. When he sees a girl he decides to cause her trouble too. He conspires to slip the jewel from the boys neck into her pocket. Finally, at the end of theis account, he tells Frankenstein that he must make him a woman to be his partner.

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Chapter 5: A beautiful woman, Safie, arrives at the cottage and the cottagers are overjoyed. The monster is able to learn to understand speech by listening to thieir conversation.

Chapter 6: The monster hears the tale of love and betrayal of Felx and his family by the Turkish merchant, father of Safie, whom they help to escape. He learns how good and how bad humans can be and how excluded he is from friend or family.

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Chapter 3: The monster describes becoming aware of his senses and of the world around him. Surviving in the snow and wet of the forest.

Chapter 4: The monster is chased away from a village but finds a hut where he watches a family and learns about them and about words. He has a fantasy of being accepted and loved by them.

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Volume 2, Chapter 1: Justine has been executed. The family go to Chamonix in the hope that the trip will lift their spirits. Victor is miserable but a little comforted.

Volume 2, Chpater 2: Victor goes for a walk in the mountains alone and encounters his monster. He threatens to kill the monster but the monster points out that Victor owes him care as his creator. He says that he will go away and live peacefully if Victor will do as he asks but if not he will harm all Victor's friends and all of humanity. The monster persuades Victor to follow him to a hut to listen to his story.

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