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Were you ill last lesson? Did you not manage to read? Or was the text too difficult to understand on your own? Use this short summary instead – but try to read the real ending as soon as you can.
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 area near the North Pole. 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
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.”
Work with a partner. Discuss the diary entry, then write your ideas:
Both Victor and the creature once had a very different life. Complete each sentence with used to + verb.
Use used to + infinitive for habits or states that were true in the past but are not true any more: Victor used to be happy (= he was happy back then, but not now). Never add -s, and do not use it for a single, one-time action.
Still unsure? Go back to Keyword Transformation in our Klasse 9 folder – it has more "used to" practice – and try it again.