quinta-feira, 13 de agosto de 2015

Frankeinstein quizz (chapters 14-15): answers

In spring, a woman called Safie arrives. She is Turkish and is Félix's fiancee. As the woman doesn't speak French, the young man teaches her, and the creature learns together, observing them. The Monster learns even faster than Safie!
Frankeinstein's creation learns the science of letters when Félix teaches the Arabian to read in his language, using the book Volney's Ruins of Empires. Also with the book, the creature discovers the wars, manners, governments, religions, etc. Perplexed, the Monster says that all those sad things  make him find the world disguting (which proves that he is a lot less monstruous than many humans!).
With all this knowledge, Victor's creature starts to ask himself what is him, if he is so different of humans. He even says that the knowledge is kind of bad for him, because it makes him reflect about how "unhuman" he is, which makes him feel sad.
The Monster discovers little by little Safie's and De Lacey's family relation. The Turkish's father had been wrongly accused of a crime. Recognizing the fail of the judges, and enchanted by Safie, Félix had helped the Turkish to escape from the prision, but when the government had discovered it, De Lacey's family had got expelled from France. They had to live in the cottage then.
To arrive at Félix's house, Safie had to travel a long distance. During the trip, her assistant, an Italian girl, had got ill. Even with all the Turkish's devoted cares, she had died, but happily, she said the spot where the cottage was located, so the Arabian could arrive at her lover house safely.
One day, the creature finds in the wood a portmanteau, with 3 books in it: Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives and the Sorrows of Werter. During his reading, he Monster starts to compare the story of Sorrows of Werter with his life.
One day, the creature finally decides to talk with De Lacey, who is alone, because Fèlix, Agatha and Safie went out. In the hope of being welcome by the family, he presents himself as a poor traveller, and says that he was searching for the house of the only people who could be his friends. Then, he asks if the old man could help him. De Lacey asks the name of these people. Suddenly, Félix, Agatha and Safie come back. The Turkish faints, the young woman runs away and the young man, desperated, takes a weapon and shoots the Monster, who flees, sad and disappointed. It was the beggining of his war with humans.

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