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Frankenstein Chapter Summaries (Full Book)
This article will provide a chapter-by-chapter summary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A perennial favorite on the AP Lit Reading List, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein has spawned innumerable films, TV series, books, and even games.
Sometimes credited as the first work of science fiction, it tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who figures out how to create life. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t go well – violence and misery follow Victor and his creation.
All quotations are from the 1818 original text.
Frankenstein Chapter Summaries
Volume I
Letters I-IV
Shelly’s Frankenstein is structured as a frame narrative.
Frankenstein summary
This means that the story doesn’t begin with Victor Frankenstein. Rather, it begins with a set of four “letters” from Robert Walton to his sister Margarite Saville. The year is 1796 – Walton is setting off on a journey to the Arctic.
He tells his sister about finding a ship and crew and sailing toward the Nort