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1,165 | 768_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly continues with her narration. Before his death, Heathcliff avoids everyone in the house, rarely eating and often going out late at night. One night, he returns home at midnight. Nelly can hear him pacing about in the room and calling for "Catherine." He eventually comes down to the kitchen and tells Nelly that he... | [
"For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at\nmeals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He\nhad an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing\nrather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed\nsufficient sustenance for hi... |
1,166 | 768_chapter_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Mr. Lockwood has traveled from London to take up the tenancy of Thrushcross Grange. He visits his landlord, a Mr. Heathcliff who resides at Wuthering Heights, the title of the novel. Above the door of Wuthering Heights are the date 1500 and the name Hareton Earnshaw. Lockwood does not receive a warm welcome and the h... | [
"1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ... |
1,167 | 768_chapter_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Zillah takes Lockwood to a bedroom that has not been used for quite some time as Heathcliff keeps it sealed. In the room he discovers three diaries, which have the following names written on them - Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton. Lockwood decides to read the contents. The entries reveal ... | [
"While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ... |
1,168 | 768_chapter_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Earnshaw's health is failing and he will not hear a bad word against Heathcliff, further alienating Hindley, who is sent away. His servant, Joseph, who is a religious fanatic, has more and more influence over his master. Cathy does not realize the seriousness of her father's condition and this only hits her when he... | [
"In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and\nhealthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to\nthe chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him;\nand suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. This\nwas especially to be re... |
1,169 | 768_chapter_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hindley's wife, Frances, is suffering from consumption and she is also pregnant. Soon after giving birth to Hareton, she dies, and Nelly is expected to bring up the baby. The death of his wife causes Hindley to become even more dominant, which causes all the servants to leave except Nelly and Joseph. Hindley treats Hea... | [
"On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.",
"... |
1,170 | 768_chapter_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After her long absence from Wuthering Heights, Nelly decides to return in order to speak with Hindley. However, instead she meets Hareton who does not remember her and greets her with a hail of stones and curses. No doubt these actions have been copied from Heathcliff. Nelly runs away. The next day, Heathcliff comes to... | [
"Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of... |
1,171 | 768_chapter_13-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cathy is in fact pregnant and Edgar tries to nurse her back to health. He hopes for a male heir. Isabella has married Heathcliff and writes to Edgar begging his forgiveness, but this is ignored. She then writes to Nelly and asks her to visit Wuthering Heights. She is distraught at the way Heathcliff treats her. In the ... | [
"For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan... |
1,172 | 768_chapter_16-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cathy gives birth to a daughter called Catherine. She is two month's premature and shortly after, Cathy dies. Heathcliff soon learns of Cathy's death and is angered to learn that she did not mention his name during her dying moments. He curses her spirit while grieving over his loss. Before the funeral Edgar watches ov... | [
"About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d... |
1,173 | 768_chapter_18-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the next 13 years, Catherine grows up at the Grange under the guidance of a very protective Edgar. She is not allowed to leave the grounds on her own and she is totally unaware of Wuthering Heights. However, she is an inquisitive girl and has learned about the fairy cave at Penistone Crags . She asks her father ... | [
"The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like... |
1,174 | 768_chapter_21-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is now 3 years later and Catherine delights in playing on the moors under the watchful eye of Nelly. However, the exuberant Catherine is no match for Nelly who has difficulty in controlling Catherine when she runs wildly through the heather. She is thus unable to prevent Catherine from speaking to Heathcliff who has... | [
"We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n... |
1,175 | 768_chapter_24-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly 'recovers' her health and becomes aware of Catherine's strange behavior of retiring early to bed. One night she goes into Catherine's room and finds her missing and waits for her return. Catherine tries to lie her way out of her predicament, but eventually she tells Nelly the truth. On one of the occasions when s... | [
"At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im... |
1,176 | 768_chapter_27-28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edgar's health continues to fail, but Catherine still visits Linton by horse. Heathcliff is now worried that Linton might die before Edgar does, so he confronts Catherine asking how ill Edgar is. Heathcliff then asks her to walk Linton back to Wuthering Heights, but she refuses, stating that her father has forbidden he... | [
"Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre... |
1,177 | 768_chapter_29-32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Heathcliff forces Catherine back to Wuthering Heights. Legally, he through Linton, has the greater claim to the Grange, thus Catherine has no choice, but to obey her father-in-law. Heathcliff will need Catherine at Wuthering Heights in to work for her keep. Ominously, Heathcliff states that he has punished Linton for c... | [
"The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.",
"We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra... |
1,178 | 768_chapter_33-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Hareton and Catherine side against Heathcliff and he threatens to strike Catherine, but is able to control himself. More and more, Heathcliff sees Cathy in Hareton, and he reveals to Nelly that he has no desire to finish his revenge. He is being constantly reminded of Cathy, both inside and outside of Wut... | [
"On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p... |
1,132 | 768_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While at the Heights, Lockwood pets a dog, but she snarls at him and Heathcliff warns him about touching her. When Heathcliff is out of the room, Lockwood makes a face at the dog, and she jumps at him, along with six or so other dogs that seem to come out of nowhere. No one seems to heed his cries, but then a woman fin... | [
"1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ... |
1,133 | 768_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The tea comes, and Lockwood tries to start a conversation with the ill-tempered people, saying that Heathcliff must be happy with his family around him and his amiable lady, when Heathcliff interrupts him to ask where his amiable lady is. Lockwood says that he means his wife, and Heathcliff tells him that she is dead. ... | [
"Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it\nby my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering\nHeights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.--I dine between twelve\nand one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture\nalong with the house, ... |
1,134 | 768_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood falls off to sleep reading, and has a bad dream about Joseph in the chapel that ends with the entire congregation attacking him. He wakes up only to hear a fir-tree branch touching his window, and he dreams again. This time in the dream he hears the wind and goes to the window to get the fir-tree branch away f... | [
"While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ... |
1,135 | 768_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Dean relates the story of the people at Wuthering Heights, and so becomes the narrator for a while. Before she came to Thrushcross Grange, Mrs. Dean was almost always at Wuthering Heights. She remembers playing with Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw, as her mother was their nurse. One day she remembers Mr. Earnshaw g... | [
"What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself\nindependent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at\nlength, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable--I,\nweak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and\nsolitude, was finally compell... |
1,138 | 768_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Dean cleans Heathcliff up and encourages him to show his good humor to everyone, but just then Hindley comes in and pushes him out, saying that he will not see their guests. Edgar comes into the kitchen and remarks about Heathcliff's long hair, and Heathcliff throws hot applesauce in his face. Isabella and Catheri... | [
"Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that\ntime her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved. The\nmistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of\nreform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and\nflattery, which she took readily;... |
1,139 | 768_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day Catherine comes to talk to Ellen. Mr. Hindley has gone from the house, and Heathcliff has given himself the day off. Edgar is to come by, and Heathcliff is angry because she spends more time with Edgar than him. Heathcliff leaves the house. When Edgar arrives, Cathy gets irritated at Ellen because she will not ... | [
"On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.",
"... |
1,140 | 768_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen tells Catherine to be quiet, as Joseph is near and that means Heathcliff will be coming. Catherine is worried that Heathcliff may have heard her and says that she will never forsake Heathcliff. She would not marry Edgar if it meant that she and Heathcliff would be separated. She thinks that if she married Heathcl... | [
"He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act\nof stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed\nwith a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness\nor his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and\nkissed to death, and ... |
1,141 | 768_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Catherine and Edgar are happy at Thrushcross Grange, and Edgar humors Catherine exceedingly, giving her everything she wants. One day in September as Ellen is gathering apples, she hears someone call her, and finds Heathcliff in the garden. He tells her to go in and tell Catherine that there is someone to see her, but ... | [
"A charming introduction to a hermit's life! Four weeks' torture,\ntossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies,\nand impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And oh, this dearth\nof the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of\nKenneth that I need not ... |
1,142 | 768_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next time Heathcliff comes to the Grange he finds Isabella in the garden, and Ellen sees them talk and then embrace. Catherine also sees, and she asks Heathcliff what it is all about. The two of them fight, Heathcliff saying that Catherine has treated him infernally and that he is unrevenged. Ellen sees Edgar in th... | [
"Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of... |
1,143 | 768_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen decides to run for the doctor, and when she enters the garden, she sees Isabella's dog suspended by a handkerchief and about to die. She releases it and runs on. The doctor asks about Heathcliff, and says that he had heard that he and Isabella had been seen together the night before. This news frightens Ellen, an... | [
"While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and\nalmost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that\nhe never opened--wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation\nthat Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to\nask pardon, and seek a r... |
1,144 | 768_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | She writes that they are at Wuthering Heights, and that she has just found out about Catherine's illness. She asks Ellen to tell Edgar that she would like to see him and Catherine. The rest of the letter she says is only for Ellen. She asks if Heathcliff is a man or a devil or mad, and relates her time at the Heights. ... | [
"For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan... |
1,145 | 768_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen tells Edgar that she has received a letter from Isabella and that she asks his forgiveness and wants to see him. He will not see or write her, but he tells Ellen to tell her that he is not angry at her. Ellen goes to Wuthering Heights. Hindley is out, but Heathcliff is there, and the place is quite neglected. Isa... | [
"As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed\nhim that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter\nexpressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire\nto see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as\npossible, some token of forgi... |
1,146 | 768_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen starts to get nervous because the church service is over. Heathcliff must leave, but Cathy begs him not to. They remain embraced as Ellen sees Linton approaching. Catherine seems to have fainted or died as Linton enters and springs at Heathcliff. Ellen gets him to see to Catherine though, and Heathcliff leaves, m... | [
"Another week over--and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I\nhave now heard all my neighbour's history, at different sittings, as the\nhousekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I'll\ncontinue it in her own words, only a little condensed. She is, on the\nwhole, a very fair narrator,... |
1,147 | 768_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The funeral is not for a few days, and the coffin is left open in the meantime. Linton spends his days and nights there, and Heathcliff spends his outside. Ellen knows that he wants to enter, and she leaves a window open when Edgar has to leave the coffin from fatigue. Heathcliff comes in and takes Edgar's lock of hair... | [
"About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d... |
1,148 | 768_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | She then tells Ellen what had been happening the last few days. Hindley had planned to be at Catherine's funeral and had stayed up and tried not to drink, but then he got in suicidal low spirits and had to stay home and drink. She and Hindley were together when they heard Heathcliff finally coming home. Hindley asked i... | [
"That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening\nthe weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought\nrain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly\nimagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and\ncrocuses were hidden under wi... |
1,149 | 768_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next twelve years are quite happy according to Ellen. Young Catherine grows to be a beautiful and good child, although she can sometimes be saucy. At this time she has never been beyond the park by herself. She is a perfect recluse, and knows nothing of Wuthering Heights or Heathcliff. About this time Isabella writ... | [
"The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like... |
1,150 | 768_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A letter arrives from Edgar saying that Isabella has died and that he will soon be coming home with Linton. Catherine is quite excited as now she will have a playmate, and when they do arrive, Edgar tells her to not try to play with Linton then as he is sad and quite sickly. They all hope that they can keep him, but th... | [
"A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return.\nIsabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter,\nand arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.\nCatherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and\nindulged most sanguine a... |
1,151 | 768_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day Ellen takes Linton to Wuthering Heights. He is quite confused, as he has never even heard that he had a father. Ellen tries to tell him everything will be all right, and when he cries, she tells him falsely that they will visit him. When they arrive, Linton is quite scared of Heathcliff and Heathcliff obvi... | [
"To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton\ncommissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine's pony; and,\nsaid he--'As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or\nbad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot\nassociate with him hereafter, and... |
1,152 | 768_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When they enter the house, Cathy is quite surprised and elated to see Linton there. She cannot understand why Ellen and her father had lied to her, but says that she and Linton must meet all the time. Heathcliff tells her that her father does not like him because he thought him too poor to marry his sister, but Catheri... | [
"We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n... |
1,153 | 768_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | He tells her that Linton is quite ill because she has stopped writing him. Ellen tells Heathcliff to stop lying to her, and when the lock gives way, she gets Cathy away from him. Ellen can tell that Catherine has believed all of Heathcliff's words, and though Ellen tries to talk her out of it, Cathy needs to tell Linto... | [
"Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the\nharvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.\nMr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers;\nat the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the\nevening happening to be ... |
1,154 | 768_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On their way home Ellen tells Catherine that she must not go back, but Catherine says that she will, as she must nurse Linton. As soon as they get home Ellen changes out of her shoes and socks that had gotten wet on the way to Wuthering Heights, but it is too late. She is ill and is laid up for three weeks. Catherine s... | [
"The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half\ndrizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path--gurgling from the\nuplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly\nthe humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things. We\nentered the farm-house by the kitchen... |
1,155 | 768_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | She tells Ellen how one time Hareton met her and tried to show her that he had learned to read and spell his own name, but she laughed when she found out that that was all he could do. Later that same visit Hareton angrily ran into the room in which Catherine and Linton were and grabbed Linton and swung him off his cha... | [
"At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im... |
1,156 | 768_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Linton asks Ellen what she thinks of Linton, and she replies that he is not like his father, and that if Catherine had the misfortune to marry him, he would not be beyond her control. He is not bothered by the fact that Linton is Heathcliff's son, but he is worried that Linton is not good enough for Catherine. Spri... | [
"'These things happened last winter, sir,' said Mrs. Dean; 'hardly more\nthan a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months'\nend, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!\nYet, who knows how long you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest\nalways contented, living... |
1,157 | 768_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen and Catherine ride out to the appointed spot, but there is a servant asking them to come nearer, and when they finally see Linton, he is quite close to Wuthering Heights, laying on the ground. Ellen can see that he is still quite ill, but he tries to tell them that he is getting better. Linton has great trouble t... | [
"Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his\nassent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride\nto join her cousin. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but\nwith a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of\nmeeting had been fixed at t... |
1,158 | 768_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Catherine tells Heathcliff that her father will be miserable if she does not return, and asks him to send Ellen to the Grange so he will know that she is safe. He refuses. She also offers to marry Linton now so that she may return, but he again refuses. Soon it grows dark and servants come from the Grange looking for t... | [
"Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre... |
1,159 | 768_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All are happy to see her when she arrives, and she goes to tell Mr. Linton that Catherine will be coming. He finds it best to change his will so that Catherine will get his property and Heathcliff will not, and sends for his lawyer, Mr. Green. Ellen sends four men to Wuthering Heights to get Catherine. The lawyer sends... | [
"On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step\napproached--lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the\nroom. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk\nbonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.",
"'Eh, dear! Mrs. Dean!' she exclaimed. 'Well! t... |
1,160 | 768_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | He continues on to say that he had gone to the graveyard on the day she was buried to dig up the grave and open the coffin. He removed the dirt, but just as he was about to open the coffin he heard a sigh and then another close to him and knew that Cathy was there with him. He was relieved at her presence. He could fee... | [
"The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.",
"We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra... |
1,161 | 768_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen tells Lockwood that she thought about leaving her position and buying a place where she and Catherine could live, but she knew that Heathcliff would not allow it. Lockwood writes that this is where Mrs. Dean's story ends, and that the next day he means to go over to the Heights and tell Heathcliff that he will so... | [
"I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she\nleft: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her,\nand wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was 'thrang,' and the\nmaster was not in. Zillah has told me something of the way they go on,\notherwise I should hardly kno... |
1,162 | 768_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hareton leaves the house just as Heathcliff returns, and Catherine leaves the room. Lockwood tells Heathcliff that he will be returning to London next week, but as he has rented the place through October, Heathcliff must look for a tenant for that time. Heathcliff invites Lockwood to dinner, and it is quite a cheerless... | [
"Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I\nproposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to\nher young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not\nconscious of anything odd in her request. The front door stood open, but\nthe jealous gate was fastened,... |
1,163 | 768_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Soon after Lockwood left the Grange, Ellen is called to the Heights as Zillah has left. She finds Catherine changed, and the happiness at having Ellen there soon leaves, and Catherine is irritable again as she is not allowed to leave the house. She taunts Hareton even more and is miserable. Soon Hareton has an accident... | [
"1802.--This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in\nthe north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within\nfifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was\nholding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green\noats, newly reaped, pass... |
1,164 | 768_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later Catherine talks against Heathcliff, but Hareton asks her how she would like it if he talked against her father, so she does not speak about Heathcliff to Hareton again. The friendship continues, and Hareton improves much because of it. One night Heathcliff comes home to find Catherine and Hareton happily together... | [
"On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p... |
1,165 | 768_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning Heathcliff tells her that he will be calling for Mr. Green as he wants to make a will, and he tells her that it is not his fault that he cannot eat or sleep. He tells her to make sure that the sexton arranges the coffins as he wants and leaves the room. Later he calls her, but she will not go to him as... | [
"For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at\nmeals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He\nhad an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing\nrather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed\nsufficient sustenance for hi... |
1,179 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frankenstein begins his tale, sensibly enough, with his childhood: he is from a wealthy and well-respected Swiss family. His parents met, he tells us, when his father went in search of a dear old friend. This man, named Beaufort, had fallen into poverty and obscurity; when the elder Frankenstein finally found him, he w... | [
"I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention ... |
1,180 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The family ceases to travel after the birth of their second son. They return home to Switzerland, to their estate at the foot of the Alps. Young Victor prefers not to surround himself with a great many casual friends; instead, he is very intimate with a select few. These include a brilliant boy named Henry Clerval, ren... | [
"We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together. Elizabeth was of a calmer ... |
1,181 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When he is seventeen, Victor's family decides to send him to the university of Ingolstadt, so that he might become worldlier. Shortly before his departure, Elizabeth falls ill with scarlet fever. Caroline, driven almost mad by worry, tends to her constantly, with complete disregard for the risk of contagion. Though Eli... | [
"When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my nati... |
1,182 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Waldman makes Victor his cherished protege, and does a great deal to accelerate the course of his education. Natural philosophy and chemistry become Victor's sole occupations. Laboratory work particularly fascinates him, and he soon finds himself secluded there for days at a time. Victor's great skill and unusual ardor... | [
"From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the\nmost comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination,\nwhich modern inquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the\nlectures, and cultivated the ac... |
1,183 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a chill night of November, Victor finally brings his creation to life. Upon the opening of the creature's "dull yellow eye," Victor feels violently ill, as though he has witnessed a great catastrophe. Though he had selected the creature's parts because he considered them beautiful, the finished man is hideous: he ha... | [
"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment\nof my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected\nthe instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being\ninto the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the\nmorning; the rain pattere... |
1,184 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elizabeth's letter expresses concern for Victor's well-being, and gratitude to Henry for his care. She relates local gossip and recent family events. The family's most trusted servant, Justine Moritz, has returned to the family after being forced to care for her estranged mother until the latter's death. Victor's young... | [
"Clerval then put the following letter into my hands.",
"\"_To_ V. FRANKENSTEIN.",
"\"MY DEAR COUSIN,",
"\"I cannot describe to you the uneasiness we have all felt concerning\nyour health. We cannot help imagining that your friend Clerval conceals\nthe extent of your disorder: for it is now several months sin... |
1,185 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Ingolstadt, Victor and Henry receive a letter from Victor's father: William, Victor's youngest brother, has been murdered. While on an evening walk with the family, the boy disappeared; he was found dead the following morning. On the day of the murder, Elizabeth had allowed the boy to wear an antique locket bearing ... | [
"On my return, I found the following letter from my father:--",
"\"_To_ V. FRANKENSTEIN.",
"\"MY DEAR VICTOR,",
"\"You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of\nyour return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines,\nmerely mentioning the day on which I should expect ... |
1,186 | 41445_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The trial commences the following morning. Victor is extremely apprehensive as to what the verdict will be: he is tortured by the thought that his "curiosity and lawless devices" will cause not one death, but two. He mournfully reflects that Justine is a girl of exceptional qualities, destined to lead an admirable life... | [
"We passed a few sad hours, until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to\ncommence. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend\nas witnesses, I accompanied them to the court. During the whole of this\nwretched mockery of justice, I suffered living torture. It was to be\ndecided, whether the result ... |
1,187 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor is tormented by the false calm that descends upon the Frankenstein household following the death of Justine. He is wracked with guilt; though he intended to further the cause of human happiness, he has ended in committing "deeds of mischief beyond description horrible. Victor's health suffers as a result of his ... | [
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have\nbeen worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of\ninaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope\nand fear. Justine died; she rested; and I was alive. The blood flowed\nfreely in my veins, but a ... |
1,188 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor continues to wander aimlessly in the valley of Chamonix, taking great consolation in the magnificence of the natural landscape. At the same time, he notes that the landscape is characterized by disorder and destruction: constant avalanches plague the valley, and it often seems that the mountains themselves will ... | [
"The next day, contrary to the prognostications of our guides, was fine,\nalthough clouded. We visited the source of the Arveiron, and rode about\nthe valley until evening. These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded\nme the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They\nelevated me from all littlene... |
1,189 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The creature has only the most vague memory of his early life: he recalls being assailed with sensory impressions, and was for a long time unable to distinguish among light, sound, and smell. He began to wander, but found the heat and sunlight of the countryside oppressive; he eventually took refuge in the forest near ... | [
"\"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original aera of\nmy being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard,\nand smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I\nlearned to distinguish b... |
1,190 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The creature begins by recalling his deep and tormenting desire to speak to the cottagers, who impress him with their gentleness and simplicity. He hesitates, however, as he is fearful of incurring the same kind of disgust and cruelty that he experienced at the hands of the villagers. In observing the family, he discov... | [
"\"I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences\nof the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these\npeople; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well\nthe treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous\nvillagers, and resolved, whatever ... |
1,191 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the outset of spring, a stranger an exquisitely beautiful young woman of exotic appearance appears at the family's cottage. Felix is ecstatic to see her, kisses her hands, and refers to her as his "sweet Arabian"; later, the creature learns that her true name is Safie. The creature notes that her language is differe... | [
"\"I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events\nthat impressed me with feelings which, from what I was, have made me\nwhat I am.",
"\"Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies\ncloudless. It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy\nshould now bloom wi... |
1,192 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some time elapses before the creature learns the family's history. Their surname is De Lacey, and they are the last of a noble French family. Only a few months previously, they had lived in Paris; there, they were surrounded by luxury and a glittering coterie of friends and intimates. They had, however, suffered a grea... | [
"\"Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was\none which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding\nas it did a number of circumstances each interesting and wonderful to\none so utterly inexperienced as I was.",
"\"The name of the old man was De Lacey. He was descende... |
1,193 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From the history of the cottagers, the creature learns to admire virtue and despise vice. His education is greatly furthered by his discovery of an abandoned leather satchel, in which he finds three books: Milton's Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and Goethe's Sorrows of Werter. He regards these books as his treasures,... | [
"\"Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I\nlearned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire\ntheir virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind.",
"\"As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil; benevolence and\ngenerosity were ever present before me, inciti... |
1,194 | 41445_volume_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The creature curses his creator for giving him life. Only his great rage, and his consuming desire for revenge, keeps him from taking his own life: he longs to "spread havoc and destruction around , and then to and enjoy the ruin. He falls upon the ground in utter despair and, at that moment, declares war upon all mank... | [
"\"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not\nextinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I\nknow not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were\nthose of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the\ncottage and its inhabitant... |
1,195 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Weeks pass, and Victor cannot bring himself to begin his work. Though he fears the creature's wrath, his abhorrence for the task proves insurmountable. He realizes that several months of study are required before he can begin composing the second creature; he determines to study in England, as the discoveries of an Eng... | [
"Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not compose a female without again devo... |
1,196 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In London, Clerval occupies himself with visits to learned and illustrious men; Victor cannot join him, however, as he is too absorbed in the completion of his odious task. He reflects that the trip would have given him indescribable pleasure while he was still a student; now, however, he wants only to be alone, as "an... | [
"London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several\nmonths in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the\nintercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time;\nbut this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with\nthe means of obtaining the in... |
1,197 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is night. Frankenstein sits in his laboratory, contemplating the possible effects of this second experiment. He becomes increasingly horrified by his task and finds himself tormented by a number of questions: will this second creature be even more malignant than the first. Will she, unlike her mate, refuse to quit t... | [
"I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was\njust rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment,\nand I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should\nleave my labour for the night, or hasten its conclusion by an\nunremitting attention to it. As I sat,... |
1,198 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor is brought before the magistrate, and several witnesses testify against him. A crew of local fishermen found the victim, a young man of about twenty-five years of age. When Victor hears that the victim was strangled, he trembles with anxiety; this, he knows, is his creature's preferred modus operandi. Seeing Fra... | [
"I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old\nbenevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however,\nwith some degree of severity; and then, turning towards my conductors,\nhe asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.",
"About half a dozen men came forward; and one ... |
1,199 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor and his father are forced to stop in Paris, as Victor has grown too weak to continue the journey. The elder Frankenstein urges him to take solace in society. Victor, however, cannot bring himself to comply: the company of people is abhorrent to him. Though he is full of a great and indiscriminate love for humani... | [
"We had resolved not to go to London, but to cross the country to\nPortsmouth, and thence to embark for Havre. I preferred this plan\nprincipally because I dreaded to see again those places in which I had\nenjoyed a few moments of tranquillity with my beloved Clerval. I thought\nwith horror of seeing again those pe... |
1,200 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Night has fallen by the time Victor and Elizabeth land on the shores of Como. The wind rises with sudden violence, and Frankenstein becomes increasingly anxious: he is certain that either he or his creature will die tonight. Elizabeth, seeing his agitation, implores him to tell her what it is he fears. Though he attemp... | [
"It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the\nshore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn, and\ncontemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured\nin darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.",
"The wind, which had fallen in the sou... |
1,201 | 41445_volume_3,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frankenstein has lost the capacity for voluntary thought; his entire consciousness is occupied by fantasies of revenge. He resolves to leave Geneva forever because the country has become hateful to him in the absence of his loved ones. Taking a sum of money and his mother's jewels, he goes off in search of the monster.... | [
"My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was\nswallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed\nme with strength and composure; it modelled my feelings, and allowed me\nto be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death\nwould have been my portion.",
... |
1,179 | 41445_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The new guy's name is Victor Frankenstein. He's just about on his deathbed from starvation, exhaustion, and illness. Even though he's half-dead, he still likes to talk, a lot. Instead of just saying, "Hey, my name is Victor. I created a monster, and now I'm trying to kill him because he killed everyone I know," he has ... | [
"I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention ... |
1,180 | 41445_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unlike Walton, Victor has friends. Two of them. Or at least, he did during his childhood. First, there's Elizabeth. Victor also has a friend named Henry Clerval. Victor describes his idyllic childhood, which is a cue for us to begin use of the historical present. As a brooding teenager, Victor develops an interest in s... | [
"We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together. Elizabeth was of a calmer ... |
1,181 | 41445_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elizabeth catches scarlet fever. She recovers, but Victor's mother catches the illness while nursing her back to health and dies herself. This is where the bad things begin, if you hadn't already picked up on that. On her deathbed, she tells Victor and Elizabeth she wants them to get married. Way to lay on the guilt tr... | [
"When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my nati... |
1,182 | 41445_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor becomes--and we say this lovingly--a huge nerd. He doesn't make friends, and he doesn't write home, not even to his hot sister/future wife, Elizabeth. He probably doesn't even have a Facebook page. On the plus side, Victor's studies advance rapidly, which tends to happen when you're in self-prescribed social exi... | [
"From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the\nmost comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination,\nwhich modern inquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the\nlectures, and cultivated the ac... |
1,183 | 41445_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's obviously a dark and stormy night when Victor brings the stitched-up corpse pieces to life. Victor is on the brink of the achievement of a lifetime. He has visions of a Nobel Prize in Potentially Evil and Highly Suspect Late-Night Doings. He has created a superior race of people. He is going to win fame and adorat... | [
"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment\nof my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected\nthe instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being\ninto the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the\nmorning; the rain pattere... |
1,184 | 41445_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elizabeth is worried about Victor's illness, and she nags Victor to write home. We are reminded that Victor has at least one good thing going for him right now. She also tells him about a girl named Justine who has come to live with their family in Geneva after her own mother's death. Several months after the shock of ... | [
"Clerval then put the following letter into my hands.",
"\"_To_ V. FRANKENSTEIN.",
"\"MY DEAR COUSIN,",
"\"I cannot describe to you the uneasiness we have all felt concerning\nyour health. We cannot help imagining that your friend Clerval conceals\nthe extent of your disorder: for it is now several months sin... |
1,185 | 41445_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at school, Victor gets a letter from Dad. It's not good news: it seems that someone has murdered his little brother, William. He leaves for Geneva immediately, but he arrives too late, and the gates of the city have been closed for the night. Victor lurks around the woods near where his brother was killed. He sees... | [
"On my return, I found the following letter from my father:--",
"\"_To_ V. FRANKENSTEIN.",
"\"MY DEAR VICTOR,",
"\"You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of\nyour return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines,\nmerely mentioning the day on which I should expect ... |
1,186 | 41445_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Shocking! Justine confesses even though she is innocent so that she won't go to Hell, which ... doesn't quite make sense to us, because isn't lying a sin, too? Elizabeth and Victor still believe in her innocence, although no one else does. Again, except for Justine. Justine is executed. Victor at least has the good sen... | [
"We passed a few sad hours, until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to\ncommence. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend\nas witnesses, I accompanied them to the court. During the whole of this\nwretched mockery of justice, I suffered living torture. It was to be\ndecided, whether the result ... |
1,187 | 41445_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor continues to feel stupid and guilty. He mopes around, contemplating suicide. His father takes the family to their lake house at Belrive to try to put the past behind them. Victor goes off by himself to the valley of Chamounix and feels momentary happiness due to how sublime it is , but the feeling passes. | [
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have\nbeen worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of\ninaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope\nand fear. Justine died; she rested; and I was alive. The blood flowed\nfreely in my veins, but a ... |
1,188 | 41445_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor feels awful. Then it rains. He goes up to the top of Montanvert to see the views, since looking at sublime views has a way of cheering him up. Brain Snack: Montanvert is one of three glaciers on Mont Blanc, a big honking mountain in the Swiss Alps. In 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a whole poem about how subli... | [
"The next day, contrary to the prognostications of our guides, was fine,\nalthough clouded. We visited the source of the Arveiron, and rode about\nthe valley until evening. These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded\nme the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They\nelevated me from all littlene... |
1,189 | 41445_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Here's the monster's story: When he's born , he realizes that he's alone with no idea how he got there. Slowly, he learns about the world through his senses. One of the first things he learns is that fire is good and bad . He tries to get food by going into a hut, but the inhabitants scream in fear and run out. The sam... | [
"\"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original aera of\nmy being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard,\nand smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I\nlearned to distinguish b... |
1,190 | 41445_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The monster stays in the hovel all winter and starts to really like the family he's stalking. He steals food from them until he realizes that they're poor. Then, he finds food in the woods instead and helps them out by working at night to clear snow or find firewood. Why? Because he's a genuine, nice guy. Seriously. Th... | [
"\"I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences\nof the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these\npeople; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well\nthe treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous\nvillagers, and resolved, whatever ... |
1,191 | 41445_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because the monster is all sensitive and stuff, he starts to realize that Felix is totally sad, too. Soon, a hot, foreign woman arrives at the cottage. Felix perks up. So does everyone else. The woman, Safie, doesn't speak the language that the rest of the cottage people do, so they teach it to her, which is convenient... | [
"\"I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events\nthat impressed me with feelings which, from what I was, have made me\nwhat I am.",
"\"Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies\ncloudless. It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy\nshould now bloom wi... |
1,192 | 41445_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that the monster understands what the family is saying, he can understand their story, which is weirdly like what has happened to Victor's family. Safie's Turkish father was accused wrongly of a crime , and sentenced to death in Paris. Meanwhile, Safie was on the lookout for a European man to marry. Why? Because he... | [
"\"Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was\none which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding\nas it did a number of circumstances each interesting and wonderful to\none so utterly inexperienced as I was.",
"\"The name of the old man was De Lacey. He was descende... |
1,193 | 41445_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night, the monster finds books and clothes in the woods while he is foraging for food. The most important book for him is Paradise Lost, which the monster mistakenly reads as history instead of fiction. How would he know? Obviously, he sympathizes with Satan's character. He also finds some of Victor's journal entri... | [
"\"Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I\nlearned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire\ntheir virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind.",
"\"As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil; benevolence and\ngenerosity were ever present before me, inciti... |
1,194 | 41445_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seeing as everyone hates him for no fair reason, the monster swears revenge on all people, particularly that jerk who created him only to live miserably, ugly, and alone. Still, he can't help rescuing a little girl who slips into a stream and almost drowns. He's a hero, see? But when the man accompanying the girl sees ... | [
"\"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not\nextinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I\nknow not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were\nthose of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the\ncottage and its inhabitant... |
1,202 | 41445_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that the monster's story is over, we're back in Victor's story. And he tells us that he refused the monster's request, obviously. The monster's pretty smart though, and he changes tactics by saying that Victor owes him a mate. It is his duty as creator. He says it will make him less evil because loneliness has made... | [
"The being finished speaking, and fixed his looks upon me in expectation\nof a reply. But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my\nideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition. He\ncontinued--",
"\"You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the\ninterchange of th... |
1,195 | 41445_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor procrastinates. Well, to be fair, it is hard to go around digging up all those graves. Finally he decides to go off to England to work on his project. Because obviously. Before he goes, his father notices that Victor seems pretty upset. Only he thinks it's because Victor doesn't want to marry his hot adopted sis... | [
"Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not compose a female without again devo... |
1,196 | 41445_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor can't really work with Henry and the monster breathing down his neck, so he leaves Henry with a friend in Scotland. Victor then rushes off to the Orkneys, where he can work on his lady monster in solitude. Still, this guy has a tough time getting himself to work. To be fair, it's not the usual causes of procrast... | [
"London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several\nmonths in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the\nintercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time;\nbut this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with\nthe means of obtaining the in... |
1,197 | 41445_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Working alone in his little abandoned shack, Victor has all the time in the world to think. And he suddenly realizes that the new monster will have free will. This complicates things. Even if monster #1 agrees to be peaceful, monster #2 might be furiously angry at being made so hideous. She might hate monster #1. Mrs. ... | [
"I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was\njust rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment,\nand I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should\nleave my labour for the night, or hasten its conclusion by an\nunremitting attention to it. As I sat,... |
1,198 | 41445_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | But that's the not the body they're talking about. The town magistrate, Mr. Kirwin, makes Victor look at the body to see if he has some reaction to it. Victor sure does have a reaction to it, because the dead guy is Henry. So Victor is accused of murdering Henry, even though the monster did it. Although, in a way, coul... | [
"I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old\nbenevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however,\nwith some degree of severity; and then, turning towards my conductors,\nhe asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.",
"About half a dozen men came forward; and one ... |
1,199 | 41445_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor stops to rest in Paris and recover his strength. He gets a letter from Elizabeth, asking him if he is in love with someone else. Nope. Not unless by "love" you mean "obsession" and by "someone else" you mean "the monster." He's still boneheadedly oblivious to the fact that the monster is planning to kill Elizabe... | [
"We had resolved not to go to London, but to cross the country to\nPortsmouth, and thence to embark for Havre. I preferred this plan\nprincipally because I dreaded to see again those places in which I had\nenjoyed a few moments of tranquillity with my beloved Clerval. I thought\nwith horror of seeing again those pe... |
1,200 | 41445_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The newlyweds go for a walk around their cottage, but Victor has the I'm-about-to-fight-a-monster wedding night jitters. Inside the cottage, he sends Elizabeth to bed so he can search the house for the monster. Uh, we're pretty sure this isn't how a wedding night is supposed to go down. And in the grand tradition of ho... | [
"It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the\nshore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn, and\ncontemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured\nin darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.",
"The wind, which had fallen in the sou... |
1,201 | 41445_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Great Pursuit begins, but it's pretty one-sided: the monster leaves a trail of clues for Victor to follow, but never allows his creator to get close enough to catch him. It's on this chase that Victor meets Walton, and now he asks Walton to pursue the monster after Victor dies. After that, Victor's narrative ends, ... | [
"My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was\nswallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed\nme with strength and composure; it modelled my feelings, and allowed me\nto be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death\nwould have been my portion.",
... |
1,179 | 41445_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor Frankenstein is now the main narrator of the story from this point on to Chapter 24. He begins his story just slightly before his birth. His father, although as of yet unnamed, is Alphonse Frankenstein, who was involved heavily in the affairs of his country and thus delayed marriage until late in life. Alphonse ... | [
"I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention ... |
1,180 | 41445_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Around the age of seven, Victor's younger brother is born. Up to this point, he and Elizabeth have been the primary receivers of their parents' love. Their parents decide to settle down in Geneva to concentrate on raising their family. Victor introduces his life-long friend Henry Clerval, a creative child who studies l... | [
"We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together. Elizabeth was of a calmer ... |
1,181 | 41445_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor is now 17 years old and ready to become a student at the University of Ingolstadt in Ingolstadt, Germany , but an outbreak of scarlet fever at home delays his departure. His mother and "cousin" both fight the disease; Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein dies, and Elizabeth recovers. Before Caroline dies, she reveals ... | [
"When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my nati... |
1,182 | 41445_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor throws himself into his schoolwork, reading all he can about the sciences, particularly chemistry. Gaining a reputation as a scientist and innovator among the professors and fellow students alike. Believing his tenure at Ingolstadt was nearing an end, Victor thinks of returning home to Geneva. However, he launch... | [
"From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the\nmost comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination,\nwhich modern inquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the\nlectures, and cultivated the ac... |
1,183 | 41445_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor succeeds in bringing his creation, an eight-foot man, to life in November of his second year. Excited and disgusted at "the monster" he had created, he runs from the apartment. He wanders the streets of Ingolstadt until Henry Clerval finds him in poor condition. Henry had come to see about his friend and to enro... | [
"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment\nof my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected\nthe instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being\ninto the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the\nmorning; the rain pattere... |
1,184 | 41445_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elizabeth's letter is the kind one would expect from a concerned family member. It is full of news from home that delights Victor and restores him to better health. Elizabeth tells of Justine Moritz, the Frankenstein's housekeeper and confidant. Even though Justine was treated poorly by her own family, she is a martyr ... | [
"Clerval then put the following letter into my hands.",
"\"_To_ V. FRANKENSTEIN.",
"\"MY DEAR COUSIN,",
"\"I cannot describe to you the uneasiness we have all felt concerning\nyour health. We cannot help imagining that your friend Clerval conceals\nthe extent of your disorder: for it is now several months sin... |
1,185 | 41445_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Victor receives a letter from his father telling him to return home immediately. William, the youngest in the family, has been murdered by strangulation. The family were out on an evening stroll near their home when the young boy ran ahead of the group. He was later found "stretched on the grass livid and motionless; t... | [
"On my return, I found the following letter from my father:--",
"\"_To_ V. FRANKENSTEIN.",
"\"MY DEAR VICTOR,",
"\"You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of\nyour return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines,\nmerely mentioning the day on which I should expect ... |
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