Here, for your convenience, is an outline of the book. At the bottom is a list of some of the recurring motifs, that I noticed – maybe you have others?
Letter 1 from Watson to his sister – he is a sensitive and tortured scientist attempting the North Pole
Letter 2
Letter 3
Letter 4 sees a giant on a dog sled, then picks up Frankenstein, on an ice floe
Chapter 1 (The entire book is Watson recounting Frankenstein’s story) Story of F’s parents and his adopted sister
Chapter 2 His growing up and getting into Alchemy
Chapter 3 Death of mother, off to Ingolstadt to go to school – excellent student
Chapter 4 discovers secret of life, assembles monster
Chapter 5 Monster lives!!!! and F gets very sick all winter, nursed by friend Clerval
Chapter 6 letter from Elizabeth
Chapter 7 letter from father – Justine (family friend, servant) accused of murdering F’s little brother – F goes home, sees monster in area where brother was murdered
Chapter 8 Justine executed
Chapter 9 Miserable F goes hiking in the Alps
Chapter 10 meets up with the Monster on the glacier
Chapter 11 Monster’s story
Chapter 12 Monster’s story
Chapter 13 Monster’s story
Chapter 14 Monster’s story
Chapter 15 Monster’s story
Chapter 16 Monster’s story
Chapter 17 The deal: make me a mate
Chapter 18 Scenic tour
Chapter 19 Scenic tour and a lab in the Orkneys
Chapter 20 Decides he won’t make the mate – ends up in Ireland, where Monster has murdered his friend Clerval, F accused
Chapter 21 father comes, he’s let off the murder charge, goes home to marry Elizabeth
Chapter 22 Gets married, knowing Monster said he’d see him on wedding night
Chapter 23 Monster murders Elizabeth
Chapter 24 F chases Monster – back to the beginning of the book
Moon, nighttime, springtime, noble feelings, goodness, mental suffering, injustice, winter, storms, mountains, desert (without people or habitations) places, the sea, the Alps, the arctic, ruined castles, beautiful scenery, the sublime, Nature, human cruelty
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