Fields of Vision

Here we give you some quick notes for the extracts from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that can be found in Fields of Vision 1 by Denis Delaney et al. 

Summary of Text E27: A Sudden Light Broke In Upon Me

At this point, Victor Frankenstein is a young university student in Ingolstadt. He is becoming obsessed with the idea of creating life and describes the strength of his motivation as almost supernatural. He believes that in order to understand life he must understand death. Thus, he spends a lot of time in mortuaries to study how death destroys the human body. None of this scares him.

After many days, Frankenstein’s hard work pays off: A light breaks upon him, meaning that he suddenly discovers how to bring life to a dead body. He cannot believe that he of all people should be the one to make this amazing discovery.

Summary of Text E28: The Accomplishment Of My Toils

On a dark and rainy November night, Frankenstein succeeds in animating the dead body which he has constructed using various body parts from corpses. He has been working on this for two years. 

However, his excitement turns to horror as he sees the result of his hard work. Despite Frankenstein having carefully selected its features, the creature looks repulsive and wrong: His eyes are watery, and its teeth look unnaturally white. Frankenstein thinks it is all a catastrophe and runs to his bedr...