Chapter+9

Chapter 9 Benevolent Intentions, Fatal Results "I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer."

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Who are you??? Patrick and Emma??

**Synopsis**:  The chapter begins right after Justine's execution and Victor is feeling the repercussions of his creation. He suddenly leaves his home for Chamounix to escape the burden that he had placed upon himself.

**Allusions**: The allusion to the boat refers to the //Rime of the Ancient Mariner//. Mary Shelly was close friends with (a stretch)  Samuel Taylor Coolridge (sp) so throughout the novel she alludes to his most famous poem. The mariner in //Rime of the Ancient Mariner// makes some of the same mistakes that Victor makes in __Frankenstein.__ (Shelley 123)

__The Mighty Alps__//:// This quote from chapter nine is an allusion to Shelly's husband's poem, //Mount Blanc.// (Shelley 129)

**Motifs/Symbols**:  __The Boat__- Symbolizes solitude and his escape from his current circumstances.
 * //"...I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water"// (Shelley 123).

 __Nature__- It is a motif throughout the book and changes whenever the monster is around. When the world is beautiful and sunny, the monster is not present. However, when it is present the weather turns nasty. In addition, it is a calming factor for Victor in times of stress and misery.
 * //"...bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows"// (Shelley 127).

**Themes**: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Running away from one's fears__- Victor is running away from the fact that his creation has killed many of his loved ones. He puts himself into complete isolation hoping that it would keep his creation from harming anymore of his loved ones and most importantly himself. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Despair__- The whole chapter Victor complains about the despair his creation has placed on his heart and his family.However, he does not want to go out of his comfort zone to try to fix anything that in a way he has put on himself.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//"I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation-- deep, dark, deathlike solitude"// (Shelley 122).
 * //"//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear"// (Shelley 121).

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Character Developmen**t: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Victor__- Throughout this chapter Victor escapes from all mankind. He is responsible for two deaths at this point and he is feeling the repercussions of his creation. He reflects on his current circumstance and with time nature begins to heal him.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__ELizabeth__- She has been mourning over the loss of Justine to the point that she no longer takes pleasure in the things she used to. She is also despondent because Victor has secluded himself away from her and his family and she is still curious as to why he is like this.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Significant Quotes and explanations**: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "...often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever" (Shelley 123).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This quote form Victor shows how his despair is taking hold of his life. He has gotten to the point where he is even contemplating suicide to escape from the despair he has evoked form the creation of the monster.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"...I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wicked" (Shelley 124).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This quote from Victor lets the reader get a sense of how scared he is of his creation. Each day could arise news that another person Victor loves has been murdered by the monster.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe, the very accents of love were ineffectual" (Shelley 127).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Victor's heart was so full of anguish from the previous events that not even nature, friendship, and love could return him to happiness. His love of nature and of his family, most especially Elizabeth, were no match for the misery he was experiencing

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer" (Shelley 126).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Victor has finally come to the fact that he was responsible in some way for all the horrible events that have happened up to this point.

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