Chapter 14-20

1.  Frankenstein's creation is amazed by the relationship between Felix and Sophie.  He doesn't understand how someone could risk their whole life for another, since he has been alone and exiled his whole life.  I think that watching this makes him want that sort of relationship.  And in telling it to Victor he hopes that Victor will realize how he has been unjustly punished by his abandonment.

2.  “Like Adam, I was created apparently united by no link to any other being in existence... [but] many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.” Frankenstein's creature compares himself to Adam and Satan in Paradise Lost.  He is very confused, seeing himself as both human and demonic, though he is aware of Frankenstein's hate for him.

3.  In the end of this set of chapters, it seems as though nature and the outside world has now become a source of stress for Frankenstein. Henry, on the train, is very excited to see the world and all it holds, and yet at this point I get a different feeling from Victor.  Since meeting his creation, nature is only a reminder to him of his task ahead and what may happen if he does not complete it. 

Chapter 6-13

1.  During these chapters we are introduced to Justine, whom Elizabeth is fighting for. The women in Frankenstein seem to always play the role of making the right choices.  Elizabeth pleads for Justine, yet it is only Victor who can actually free her.  Victor makes the decisions in their relationship.

2.  After the death of Justine, Victor seems to find his only brief moments of happiness in nature.  He soon after takes a trip up the mountain, where he is somewhat at peace, though is often reminded of his guilt. This is significant because him and his creation share this tie to nature, and are at home there.

3.  In chapter 10, we start to see the monster as more of a human. I think it is only our, as well as Victor's, imagination that the creation is so ugly and hard to look at.  "Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel.” The monster is very educated, and he calls Victor God, while referring to himself as Adam. That Shows he should have given him a better environment to grow up in.  

Letters, Chapters 1-5

1.  The novel, Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus, begins with letters from Walton to his sister.  Through these letters we find that he is preparing for a journey to the North Pole.  By taking this journey he is adventuring into lands that have never been studied before.  He seems at first excited by this trip he will be going on, but soon encounters ice and becomes stuck.  While stuck on this ice he finds a man on a sled (Victor Frankenstein) in pursuit of something, but now very weak.  He soon starts talking to Frankenstein and becomes very interested in him.  Frankenstein starts becoming well and talking more and more to Walton.  They find they have much in common, yet Walton has not yet reached the point where Frankenstein is at, which is near the point of loosing his mind.  He has become completely infatuated with his creation.  Frankenstein realizes that he may save Walton from himself and explains his own story to him. Both men have a crave for knowledge, and for both of them it could kill.

2.  Victor's new professors at Ingolstadt tell him that his studies of Agrippa and such scientists are useless, as well as experiments to find the "philosopher's stone" and the "elixir of life." He masters all of the things his teachers have to show him, and even makes a name for himself by improving some instruments, yet still has an interest in early natural philosophy. At this point he takes on the task of trying to create life, this shows he apparently never gave up his love for the old world ways of philosophy.  Basically shutting himself into his apartment labratory, he sets to work on not only creating life, but also destroying all of his happiness.  He realizes at one point how unhealthy what he is doing is, but tells himself he will do everything after he finishes. I think he wants to bad to finish so perhaps he can bring back to life his mother.  

3.  It is seen from the beginning that Victor has a great affection for his "cousin" Elizabeth. His mother brings her home, stating that she has a gift for him.  When he sees her he says that he interpreted her words literally, "and looked upon Elizabeth as mine - mine to protect, love, and cherish ... since till death she was to be only mine."  Her and his family seem to be the only source of happiness in his life. After he leaves them, his life begins to fall apart around him and he begins to surround himself with other things and starts to forget about them.