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snasandhu
snasandhu
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High School - 10th Grade

Describe Victor Frankenstein's disturbed dream.

The answer should be from chapters 5-8 including a direct quotation from the chapter.

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Posted by snasandhu on Monday March 17, 2008 at 9:58 PM and tagged with chapter 5, dream, frankenstein, victor frankenstein.

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  1. amy-lepore Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    In Chapter 5 of the book, just after Victor has created the creature, he runs from it and falls into an exhausted sleep in his room.  He is plagued by wild dreams.  He says:

    I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt.  Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel.

    This dream serves as a disturbing foreshadowing for the future events involving Elizabeth and all of the loved ones of Victor Frankenstein as the creature seeks revenge for being brought without consent into the world and then abruptly abandoned to fend for himself.

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    Posted by amy-lepore on Tuesday March 18, 2008 at 7:37 AM