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Frankenstein Summary Chapter 18
In Chapter 18 of Frankenstein, Victor has returned to Geneva but he has been feeling all sorts of things that has his own dad can see it. He hasn’t been him, reason for this is because all the thoughts of the monster treating him like a slave. He hasn't started his assignment that the monster request him to do. He hasn’t done it because of how unmotivated he is and indecisive he is whether he should create it or not. Victor knows that if he makes another monster again it will take several months in the lab to create it. He was tempted to go to England just to meet this English philosopher which will lead him to his success. He then realizes how he should lose the self control and if he achieved it he will have peace with his family. So he told his dad he wanted to go visit England. So he goes on a journey, and he will see Clerval and Elizabeth at Strasbourg to keep him company. …show more content…
Cleveral was enjoying his time in London while, Victor was trying to work on his experiment. They arrived at London in the beginning of October and they left London on March 29th. The next journey was proceeding to Oxford they saw a lot of beautiful sereny of the memory of a unfortunate king and his companions. Victor enjoyed the beautiful scene and realize his youthful years. The next journey was Matlock because it was the next place to rest. It had a lot of villagers, there were green hills, white Alps which attended to piny mountains of native country. Then they went to Derby and they went northwards, and they met some acquaintances there. Then his next stop was Scotland because he needed to finish his experiment at a desolate area. It was hard for Victor to do the experiment because he was very irritated and scared to enter his

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