The Creature's Introduction and Defining Scenes

From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Creature is animated in Chapter 5, abandoned, and later articulates one of literature's most eloquent voices of the outcast in his autobiographical narration at the center of the novel.
Chapter 5

Animation scene: 'It was on a dreary night of November... I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.' Victor flees in horror.

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Chapter 10

The Creature confronts Victor on Montanvert: 'I expected this reception... All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!'

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Chapter 11-16 (Volume II)

The Creature's own narrative: education at the De Lacey cottage, reading Paradise Lost, Plutarch, and Werter, and his rejection by humankind.

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