📖 Part 3: Revenge & the End

📖 The ending of the story

After the creature is rejected by everyone, it wants revenge on its maker. First it kills Victor's little brother, William. The family servant, Justine, is wrongly blamed for the murder and executed. The creature then meets Victor and makes one wish: Victor must build it a female companion, so that it does not have to be alone any more. Victor starts the work, but in the end he is afraid and destroys the second creature.

Now the creature is furious. It kills Victor's best friend Henry Clerval, and on Victor's wedding night it kills his bride Elizabeth. Victor has lost everyone he loves. Full of hate, he follows the creature for months across Europe and finally to the frozen Arctic. There, weak and sick, Victor is found by the explorer Walton – and this is where the novel began.

Victor dies on Walton's ship. Soon after, the creature appears next to the dead body. But it does not feel happy – it feels deep sadness and regret. It says goodbye and disappears into the ice to end its own life. Nobody really wins in this story.

Words: revenge = Rache · servant = Diener(in) · executed = hingerichtet · companion = Gefährtin · furious = wütend · regret = Reue

📓 A different text: the creature's diary

Imagine the creature could write a diary. This is how its last entry might sound:

“Tonight my maker is dead. For years I only wanted him to look at me, to give me a friend. He never did. I took everything from him – his brother, his friend, his bride – and now he is gone too. But I feel no joy. I am more alone than ever. Soon I will go far into the ice, where no one will ever see me again.”