Resumo de Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Plot Summary
The book begins with four letters from Robert Walton to his sister. They describe Walton's adventures and emotions on his enterprise. His project is to go, by ship, to the North Pole and back. His ship is then trapped by the ice floating in the sea. He describes the discovery of a man and his dogs (dead and alive) resting on a small glacier. He taken onboard, near dead, and recounts his tale to Walton.
Victor Frankenstein was born into a loving family. His father a rich business man and his mother was a beautiful delicate, yet poor pauper. Their family soon adopted a young girl from a poor family the happened upon. They named her Elizabeth, the picture of perfection. His younger was born soon after Elizabeth was adopted. Frankenstein's best friend was Henry Clerval who went to the same school.
After years of happiness together, Elizabeth caught Scarlet Fever. Her adoptive mother attended her and she in turn caught it and died not before she expressed her wishes that Victor and Elizabeth join in holy matrimony.
Frankenstein had an interest in the out-moded theories as to how life was created. Soon after his mother died, he was sent to a university. He began to create a human using body parts from freshly buried graves. Frankenstein feared the monster he created. Seeing no love in his creator, the monster ran away.
The monster longed for love and friendship, but he found none. He wanted to befriend a young boy in the woods, but upon learning that the boy was in fact Frankenstein's younger brother, he killed him in renvenge. He took the neckalce from the boy and placed on the neck of a young girl who was accused and executed for killing the boy. Frankenstein realized that his creation had done this ran off to the woods by himself. The monster tracked him down and demanded a female monster as a companion. Frankenstein agreed. Nearing the completion of the second creation, he decided that he could not create another horrible creature. He destroyed the second monster. The monster vowed revenge on Frankenstein's wedding night. The monster murdered Clerval to emphasize the threat. Frankenstein hurried home and married Elizabeth, sending her away in order to prepare for his death. When the monster never came, he realized that it wasn't him the monster was after. Elizabeth was dead. Frankenstein vowed to pursue him until died.
This explains why he was on the ice. Frankenstein died soon after relating his tale to Walton. Walton discovered the monster sitting by the dead man and it began to recount the reason behind his madness. He then left for the pole where he could die in peace.

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