Victor Frankenstein

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Victor Frankensteins Travels

• An interactive plot map tour through Europe,
• By Allen Li, Arpit Dave, Logan Sweezy, and Leo
  Stolov

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Welcome to the interactive plot map!

• This interactive tour through Victor
  Frankensteins travels in Europe will explore the
  various towns and regions as described firsthand
  by Frankensteins protagonist. Click the button
  to explore the plot map

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Welcome to Europe
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Orkney Islands
Edinburgh, Scotland
Matlock, England
Oxford, England
London, England
Ingolstadt, Germany
Geneva, Switzerland
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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• The beauty and regularity of the new town
  of Edinburgh, its romantic castle, and its
  environs, the most delightful in the world,
  Arthur's Seat, St Bernard's Well, and the
  Pentland Hills, compensated him for the change,
  and filled him with cheerfulness and admiration.
  (190)

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More of Edinburgh
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• Pentland Hills are a range of hills to the
  south-west of Edinburgh. The range is around
  20 miles in length, and runs south west from
  Edinburgh towards Biggar and the
  upper Clydesdale.
• Arthur's Seat is the main peak of the group of
  hills which form most of Holyrood Park, a wild
  piece of highland landscape in the centre of the
  city of Edinburgh, about a mile to the east
  of Edinburgh Castle.
• The hill rises above the city to a height of
  251 m (823 ft), provides excellent panoramic
  views of the city, is quite easy to climb, and is
  a popular walk.

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Orkney Islands
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• It was a place fitted for such a work, being
  hardly more than a rock whose high sides were
  continually beaten upon by the waves. The soil
  was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few
  for a few miserable cows, (142)
• Victor heads to one of the remotest of the Orkney
  Islands to work on a companion for the monster.
• The Orkney Islands are located in northern
  Scotland.
• Orkney is composed of roughly 70 islands. Only 20
  of the islands are inhabited.

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Matlock, England
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• The country in the neighborhood of this village
  resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of
  Switzerland but every thing is on a lower scale,
  and the green hills want the crown of distant
  white Alps, which always attend on the piny
  mountains of my native country. (190)
• The Alps are one of the great mountain systems
  of Europe, stretching from Austria and
  Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, 
  Germany to France in the west.

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Oxford, England
Map

• If these feelings had not found an imaginary
  gratification, the appearance of the city had yet
  in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our
  admiration. The colleges are ancient and
  picturesque the streets are almost magnificent
  and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it
  through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread
  forth into a placid expanse of waters, which
  reflects its majestic assemblage of towers and
  spires and domes imbosomed among aged trees.
  (139)
• Victor and Clerval visit Oxford on their tour
  through England.
• Oxford is located in South East England
• The river Isis flows through Oxford

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London, England
Map

• London was our present point of rest we
  determined to remain several months in this
  wonderful and celebrated city (137)
• Victor Frankenstein and Henry Clerval stay in
  London for several months.
• London is the capital of England.

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Ingolstadt, Germany
Map

• When I had attained the age of seventeen, my
  parents resolved that I should become a student
  at the university of Ingolstadt. (28)
• Victor goes to this university to study science
  and ends up creating the monster here as well
• The church of Ingolstadt is seen, which may be
  the same church mentioned by Victor on page 42
  discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the
  church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and
  clock, which indicated the sixth hour. As you
  may see, the church in the picture also has a
  clock.

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Geneva, Switzerland
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• Geneva is a beautiful city located on the coast
  of Lake Geneva and surrounded by mountains.
• This proximity to the lake can create a very
  humid and rainy environment
• Mary Shelley spends time in Geneva and uses her
  experiences to form the setting for her novel.
  Her perception of Geneva can be seen through the
  eyes of Victor with the following quote Dear
  mountains! My own beautiful lake! How do you
  welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear
  the sky and lake are blue and placid. (58)
• As you can see the quote above is a fairly good
  description of the picture provided.
• Victors family resides in Geneva and is also
  murdered in Geneva by the monster.

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Montanvert
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• It is a scene terrifically desolate. In a
  thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche
  may be perceived, where trees lie broken and
  strewed on the ground some entirely destroyed,
  others bent leaning upon the jutting rocks of the
  mountain, or transversely upon other trees.(79)
• As described by Victor and seen in the picture,
  the mountain of Montanvert is extremely large,
  steep and intimidating.
• This mountain is found 33 miles southeast of
  Geneva
• Victor meets the monster here and they talk for
  the first time. The monster displays its
  strength here as Victor watches it bound over
  crevices with ease.

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