FRANKENSTEIN
CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY
In chapter five of Frankenstein, Victor succeeds with bringing his monster to life. Henry Clerval had come to see his friend and enroll in the university. Henry and Victor go back to his apartment to discover that the monster is not any where to be found. I think Victor is relieved that his monster can not be found because it lifts much of his anxiety off his shoulders.
I believe chapter five is an important chapter because the chapter begins to take shape, and Victor describes his creation in full detail as "beautiful" yet repulsive with his "yellow skin,""lustrous black, and flowing" hair, and teeth of "pearly whiteness." Victor describes the monster's eyes, considered the windows upon the soul, as "watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips. Here Mary Shelley contrasts God's creation of Adam to Victor's creation of the monster. Victor sees his creation as beautiful and yet disturbing, versus the creation story taken from the Bible in which God sees his creation of Adam as good.
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