"I will be with you on your wedding night" (Shelley, 131). The monster threatens Victor with these words, and Victor construes it as the monster will kill him on his wedding night. The monster means he will kill Elizabeth on the night of the wedding. ...
One stormy night, after months of labor, Victor completes his creation. ... He spends the night pacing in his courtyard. ... By the time he arrives, night has fallen and the gates of Geneva have been shut, so he spends the evening walking in the woods around the outskirts of the town. ... He curses and vows revenge, then departs, swearing that he will be with Victor on his wedding night. ...
I'll come back every night now, I think, and every night I'll come a little closer to your bed ... and a little closer ... until one night, before you can scream for them, you'll hear something growling, something growling right beside you, Tad, it'll be me, and I'll pounce, and then I'll eat you and you'll be in me. ... At last, a four year old boy has a monster in his closet who is threatening to haunt him every night and a mother who is going to fight for her and her son's life against the creature. ...
As a result of this, he stops stealing food from them at night because he "found that in doing this [he] inflicted pain on the cottagers" (106). ... Late at night, the creature would take the boy's tools and collect great amounts of wood for the family. ... When the night approaches, the creature lit the deserted cottage on fire. ...
For example, if he had told Elizabeth about the threat made by the monster for their wedding night, she might not have been killed. ... He's constantly looking over his shoulder to see if he is being followed, and to top it all off, the creature travels at night. ... When the creature tells Frankenstein, ""I will be with you on your wedding night'"(p. 163), Victor hears it repeating over and over in his head. ...
Likewise his health deteriorates: "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree" (Shelley 34). ... The monster is outraged and threatens the doctor: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night: (Shelley 123). Intimidated by the words, Victor leaves his wife on the night of the wedding, in hopes of saving her. ...
The Monster tries to convince Victor to create a female counterpart for him, but when Victor destroys the female the Monster swears revenge against Victor, promising to be with him on his wedding night. ... After Victor is acquitted, he marries Elizabeth and on their wedding night the Monster murders Elizabeth, fulfilling his promise that he would be with Victor and Elizabeth on their wedding night. ...
Late one night Victor begins to create the ultimate being/monster that would soon overcome his life and ruin anything that he had ever loved or cared about. ... Finally one cold and dreary night the monster comes alive and in that instant Victor's life is forever changed. ... The destruction of the monster's woman enrages the monster and he curses Victor to be ware on his wedding night. ...
., because he is so horrified by the ugliness of the figure that he rushes from the room and spends the night in his courtyard. ... (Uh, you see, I created this eight foot man with thin yellowish skin, and black lips, whom I haven't seen for two years and just last night during the storm I thought I spotted him behind a clump of trees . . .) ...
Also, the flute was heard in the distance, when Victor was upstairs with his new wife Elizabeth, on their wedding night. ... The Monster kills Elizabeth, as he had promised Victor that he would be with him on his wedding night, both in the film and novel. ...
A few nights later Mary had a dream and explained it by saying: Night waned upon this talk; and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest. ... As with many good stories, the story of Frankenstein's conception begins on a dark and stormy night: June 16, 1816 (Nichols 102). ...
At night Victor would secretly steal the bodies from their resting place and take them to his chamber. ... "I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life," (49) here is where Mary Shelly begins to intrigue her readers with cliff hanger ends and leaves her readers striving for more. ...
On the night of Victor and Elizabeth's honey moon, Victor prowls around the estate waiting for the monster to fulfill his promise of visiting him on his honeymoon, "When suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. ... As Victor stays up all night awaiting the monsters arrival, he hears a cry from the room his wife was staying in. ...
A few nights later Mary had a dream and explained it by saying: Night waned upon this talk; and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest. ... As with many good stories, the story of Frankenstein's conception begins on a dark and stormy night: June 16, 1816 (Nichols 102). ...
Guilt a feeling of remorse for an action, is a daemon that haunts Victor Frankenstein more diligantly, than the monster he created. This guilt sends frankenstein into an illness, and ultimatly destroys his life. Why is Frankenstein persued so persistantly by this guilt, and what great crim di...
After watching Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, one can notive there are many differences between the movie and Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. There were many little differences that probably went unnoticed, but there were two huge differences that were very apparent. One of the differences betwee...
The creature full of rage declares his revenge: "I shall be with you on your wedding night" (161). The creature foreshadows the events that occur on Victors wedding night. ... On his wedding night, Victor hears a "shrill and dreadful scream" (168). ...
September 25, 2003 The Ghost of A Self: Female Identity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The article was written by Vanessa Dickerson who is the professor of English at DePauw University where she teaches Victorian, and African literature. She has written a book Ghosts in the Noontide: Women ...
A Comparison of extracts from Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" and Susan Hills "Woman in Black" of their Effectiveness and Creation of Tension I am intending to review an extract from two pieces of pre and post 19th Century text, in the hope of pinpointing the effectiveness and ways of creating tensi...
Controlling Purpose: To compare events in Mary Shelley's life to that of her novel Frankenstein. There are many parallels between the novel Frankenstein and the life of its author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. In the very beginning, Mary was born in Somers Town, Great Britain to two well-known a...
In some cases it was a fear of strange sounds that are caused in the dead of the night, or exaggerated visions of disgusting bugs creatures already found here on Earth. ... Mad scientists no longer work alone in Gothic laboratories during thunderstorms at night. ...
