Frankenstein

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Frankenstein by Mind Map: Frankenstein

1. Victor's Mother

1.1. Submissive

1.1.1. "He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care" (Shelly Ch.1)

1.2. Damaged

1.2.1. "Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through." (Shelly Ch.1)

1.3. Caring

1.3.1. "This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion—remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved—for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted." (Shelly Ch. 1)

2. Elizabeth (cousin)

2.1. Observant

2.1.1. "the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers—she found ample scope for admiration and delight." (Shelly Ch. 2)

2.2. Loveable

2.2.1. "Everyone loved Elizabeth. The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight." (Shelly Ch. 1)

2.3. Creative

2.3.1. "She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home" (Shelly Ch.2)

3. For citations I used an online book with no page numbers http://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm

4. Victor

4.1. Protective

4.1.1. "And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine—mine to protect, love, and cherish." (Shelly Ch. 1)

4.2. Ambitious

4.2.1. "I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge." (Shelly Ch.2)

4.3. Curious

4.3.1. "The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember." (Shelly Ch.2)

5. Victor's Father

5.1. Loving

5.1.1. "There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly." (Shelly Ch. 1)

5.2. Caring

5.2.1. "...she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber. He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care" (Shelly Ch. 1)

5.3. Protective

5.3.1. "He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind." (Shelly Ch.1)

6. Henry (Boyhood Friend)

6.1. Passionate

6.1.1. "He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance." (Shelly Ch. 2)

6.2. Interactive

6.2.1. "He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure. He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels." (Shelly Ch. 2)

6.3. Hardworking

6.3.1. "He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger for its own sake. (Shelly Ch. 2)