Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. chapters 6-8.
This section of reading outlines more grief that is felt by Victor and his family. After his creation and the horror of the event, Victor becomes ill. He decides to take a vacation from school and visit with his friend Henry and show him his school. Victor and Henry take a tour of the country to clear victor of his illness. When Victor returns to Ingolstadt, he finds a letter from his father that states that his brother, William, had been murdered. Victor takes a trip to Geneva. He finds the creature he created near the place that Will had been murdered.
Grief made victor vie for the innocence of Justine, who had been arrested and sentenced for the murder. However, Victor could never tell the truth about his horrible creation. Justine was executed anyway.
This family seems to attract the bizarre and sad. I thought that it was in a way ironic that the creature that Victor created to cheat death was a cause of death and anguish for Victor and his family. This section of reading is a good indication of why Victor was in pursuit of the creature in the beginning of the story.
"Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands; for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination if the enormity she was supposed to have committed" (Shelly, 54).
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