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Frankenstein

Contents

Context
Author
Characters
Letters1-4
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14 - 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
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Chapter 21

Summary

The body of Henry Clerval has been washed up on the beach, murdered by strangulation, the monster’s hallmark.  At least two witnesses saw a large creature near the body, but as Victor has appeared on the scene around the same time, and being a stranger, he is the prime suspect.

Victor is seriously ill and is near death, and when he can verify his whereabouts at the time of the murder, he is acquitted of the crime. He could not have killed Henry as he was on the Orkney Islands at the time.

Alphonse arrives in Ireland to bring Victor home once he has been nursed back to health.  His meager existence on the remote island and his time spent in the Irish jail have taken their toll on him.

 

Interpretation

The journey that Victor and Henry had undertaken has ended in tragedy for them both.

Henry is dead, and Victor faces continued persecution from the monster.  Victor has the further burden that yet another innocent has been murdered because of his evil experiments in Ingolstadt.




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