FRANKENSTEIN

Victor Frankenstein grows up fascinated by science and the secrets of life. At university, he discovers how to animate lifeless matter and constructs a human-like creature. Horrified at what he has made, he abandons it, setting off a chain of suffering. The intelligent but isolated creature learns to speak and read, yearning for kindness, but repeated rejection hardens it into bitterness. After Victor refuses to create a companion for it, the creature kills his loved ones one by one. Consumed by grief and revenge, Victor chases it to the Arctic, where he dies. The creature, mourning its creator yet still feeling wronged, disappears into the icy wilderness to end its own life.