In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to
reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits
an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton
and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to
the ship. He introduces himself and Victor Frankenstein and he tells to
the captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva.
Victor is a brilliant student and in love with his stepsister Elizabeth,
an orphan that was raised by his father Baron Frankenstein. In 1793,
Victor moves to Ingolstadt to study at the university and he promises to
get married to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry
Clerval who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to Professor
Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advises
him that he should not try this experiment since the result would be an
abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries to
create life. He succeeds and gives life to a strong Creature, composed
of parts of deceased persons. However he realizes that his experiment is
a mistake and he abandons the Creature expecting that it will die
alone. However the Creature survives and learns how to read and write,
but he is a monster rejected by society and his own creator. The
Creature decides to seek revenge from Victor by killing everyone he
loves.
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