Chapter 6
Victor completes his creature and recoils in horror; he receives a letter from his cousin Elizabeth.
5 argumentative units
- 01Elizabeth's letter during Victor's illness
Clerval gives Victor a letter from Elizabeth, full of anxious affection and family news—Justine's return, William's dimpled charm—offering a window into the loving home Victor has abandoned.
- 02Victor's flight from the creature
Victor is so repulsed that he immediately abandons the creature and flees his laboratory, unable to bear the sight of his creation.
- 03Victor writes and begins to recover
Moved by Elizabeth's letter, Victor writes immediately; writing fatigues him but signals the turning of his illness. Within a fortnight he is able to leave his room.
- 04Victor re-enters the world through Clerval
Victor's recovery progresses as he introduces Clerval to the professors; both suffer under M. Waldman's praises and M. Krempe's blunt encomiums, while Clerval's friendship gradually restores Victor's soul.
- 05A delayed return to Geneva
Victor's homeward journey is repeatedly deferred through autumn and winter, until a pedestrian tour with Clerval through the Ingolstadt environs finally restores his health and spirits before his departure.