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On a polar expedition, Captain WALTON rescues VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN from a drifting ice floe. Frankenstein is exhausted and pursuing a gigantic being across the Arctic. As he recovers aboard Walton’s ship, he warns the captain against the reckless ambition that has ruined his life, then recounts his history. Raised in Geneva amid a loving family, Frankenstein grows close to his cousin ELIZABETH and his friend HENRY CLERVAL. At university in Ingolstadt, he becomes consumed by natural philosophy and discovers how to give life to dead matter. Working in secret, he assembles a giant humanlike creature and animates it. Horrified by its appearance, he abandons it. The creature disappears, while Frankenstein falls gravely ill and Clerval nurses him back to health. When Frankenstein returns to Geneva, his young brother WILLIAM has been murdered. He sees the creature near the crime scene and realizes it is the killer, but keeps silent, convinced nobody will believe his story. A miniature taken from William is found on JUSTINE, a beloved family servant, and she is convicted after a coerced confession. Frankenstein knows she is innocent but cannot save her. Her execution deepens his guilt and leaves his family grieving. In the Alps, the creature confronts Frankenstein and tells his own story. Newly alive, he learns to speak and read by secretly observing the De Lacey family, whom he aids in their poverty. He hopes their kindness will extend to him, but when he reveals himself, they flee in terror. Rejected and driven into rage, he burns their cottage. Later, after saving a girl from drowning, he is shot by a man who assumes he means her harm. Near Geneva, he tries to seize William as a companion, but the boy recoils and names Frankenstein as his father. The creature kills him and plants the miniature on Justine. He demands that Frankenstein create a female companion, promising to leave humanity with her forever. Frankenstein reluctantly agrees. Frankenstein travels to a remote Orkney island to make the second creature. But fearing the pair might reject each other, produce offspring, or threaten humanity, he destroys his unfinished work. The creature witnesses this and vows revenge, promising to be with Frankenstein on his wedding night. Soon afterward, he murders Clerval. Frankenstein is arrested in Ireland, where the body is found, but is acquitted when witnesses establish he was on the Orkneys at the time. He returns to Geneva and marries Elizabeth, misreading the creature’s threat as a promise to kill him. On their wedding night, the creature murders Elizabeth instead. Frankenstein’s father dies from grief, and Frankenstein, briefly imprisoned as a madman, escapes and swears to hunt his creation. His pursuit carries him across Europe and Russia and onto the polar ice. Walton’s crew, trapped by ice and afraid to continue north, compel the captain to turn back. Frankenstein dies before he can reach the creature. The creature enters the cabin, mourns his creator, and admits that remorse has not undone his crimes. He says he will travel to the northernmost reaches and burn himself on a funeral pyre so no one can repeat Frankenstein’s experiment, then leaps from the ship onto an ice raft and disappears into the darkness.

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