Summer - Frankenstein - Volume 2

• Chapter 1
• p65, resetting Victors frame of mind
  "I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice, and make myself useful to my fellow-beings. Now all was blasted: instead of that serenity of conscience, which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by the remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe."
• p67, we learn Justine Moritz fate from the trial, Elizabeth speaking to Victor,
  "'When I reflect, my dear cousin,' said she, , 'on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me. Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice, that I read in books or heard from others, as tales of ancient days, or imaginary evils; but now misfortune has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each others blood.'"
• Chapter 2
• p73, the monster implores Victor to listen to his story
  "Listen to my tale: when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. But hear me. The guilty are allowed, by human laws, as bloody as they may be, to speak in their defence before they are condemned. Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man! Yet I ask you not to spare me: listen to me; and then, if you can, and if you will, destroy the work of your hands."
• p74, Victor consents
  "But I consented to listen; and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale."
• Chapter 3
• p77, the monster enters a village and is attacked
  "The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until grievously bruised by the stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country, and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the places I had beheld in the village."
• p79, the monster's new neighbors are a young boy and girl and an old man,
  "Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures. One was old, with silver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love: the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry; yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency."
• Chapter 4
• p80, the monster wants to present himself to his neighbors, but knows he cannot,
  "What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching, and endeavoring to discover the motives which influenced their actions."
• p81, the monster realizes his neighbors suffer from poverty,
  "A considerable period lapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family; it was poverty: and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree."
• p81, the monster, following the lead of his young neighbors, saves the food for them,
  "This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighboring wood."
• p81, the monster provides them firewood through his invisible help,
  "I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours."
• p81, the monster discovers language,
  "This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it."
• p81, the monster learns his neighbors names,
  "The youth and his companion had several names, but the old man had only one, which was father. The girl was called sister, or Agatha; and the youth, Felix, brother, or son."
• p84, the monster envisions winning over his companions with words,
  "I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwords their love."
• Chapter 5
• p85, a guest joins the cottagers, the Arabian, Safie,
  "I soon perceived, that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds, and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by, or herself understood, the cottagers."
• p87, the monster learns human history as Felix teaches Safie,
  "I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original habitats."
• p87, the monster's reflection on human history,
  "Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?"
• p87, and also reflects about his own place in the world,
  "The words induced me to turn towards myself."
• Chapter 6
• p89, we learn Safie's father was a Turkish merchant who was persecuted in France for his religion and wealth
  "Felix had been present at the trial; his horror and indignation were uncontrollable, when he heard the decision of the court."
• p92, Safie runs off to Felix against her father's wishes,
  "When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue in this emergency. A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and feeling were alike adverse to it."
• Chapter 7
• p94, the monster acquires three books, the most relatable being Paradise Lost,
  "Like Adam, I was created apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with, and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature: but I was helpless, wretched, and alone."
• p97, the monster resolves to introduce himself to his neighbors,
  "I revolved many projects; but that on which I was finally fixed was, to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone."
• p98, De Lacy gives the monster hope...
  "Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair."
• p99, it fails,
  "Now is the time!--save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not desert me in the hour of trial!"
• Chapter 8
• p100, the monster declares war... before reconsidering shortly,
  "No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this unsupportable misery."
• p101, after discovering his neighbors have fled for good, he recommits himself to war,
  "My protectors had departed, and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to controul them; but, allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death."
• p102, the monster resolves to make his creator suffer,
  "I resolved to fly far from the scene of my misfortunes; but to me, hated and despised, every country must be equally horrible. At length, the thought of you crossed my mind."
• p103, after saving a girl from drowning, the monster is shot by the girl's companion,
  "This was the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompense, I writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone."
• p104, the monster chokes Victor's brother to death,
  "Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy--to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim!"
• p105, the monster frames Justine Moritz,
  "I have learned how to work mischief. I approached her unperceived, and placed the portrait securely in one of the folds of her dress."
• p105, the monster demands Victor create him a companion,
  "My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. This being you must create."
• Chapter 9
• p106, more of the monster's incel demands,
  "You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse."
• p107, Victor is convinced,
  "I was moved. I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent; but I felt there was some justice in his argument."
• p108, Victor consents,
  "I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."