2. Briefly describe the plot (action) of the work. What happens?

Robert Walton (the first narrator) finds Victor Frankenstein adrift in the Arctic. After a week's recovery Frankenstein tells his story. As Victor was growing up he had always been interested in alchemy and pseudo-sciences. He hoped to one day to be able overcome death and decay. Victor learned how to create life in the laboratory and collected parts from cadavers to create his creature. After giving his creation life, he was horrified and fled. He was hidden away for two years, then received a letter telling of his little brother's death. He suspected the creature, but the police suspected a female friend of his family's and hanged her. One day the being found Victor and told him of his survival and his knowledge. He requested Victor make him a companion and in return they would flee away never to be seen again. He eventually agrees to make the "bride," but after much pondering destroys all the work he had done.

I really liked the way Shelley told the story from different points of view. She made the story whole by telling what Victor thought and what the creature thought. I also liked the way she didn't just dive right into the central story, but laid out an outer frame. Shelley tries to make an easily read story by telling it from all angles and makes it a little different with the story inside of the story.

I believe the theme of this work to be that love is powerful. Love, or a lack there of, can cause people to do strange things. You would do odd things to gain love, or to keep it. Without love is life worth living? There is also a message of the power of the rejection of a society.

I believe it was easily read. There was no overly difficult language. If you did have to pause in the middle of the story it was easily picked up again without rereading sections a couple times.

I do agree that love is a powerful force, but I don't know that love or a "societal let-down" can cause a person (or monster) to kill. I would recommend this if the friend had some extra t

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