218 THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE 



which he subsisted and how he learned to speak and to 

 understand French showed wonderful imagination on the 

 part of the authoress. And the account which the monster 

 gave of the way in which he was treated by everybody 

 and his woeful sense of isolation is very pathetic. But 

 this expulsion from all association with any other being 

 led him to entertain bitter and vengeful feelings against 

 men in general and his creator in particular. He murdered 

 the younger brother of Frankenstein and contrived to 

 fix the crime on an innocent young girl who was executed 

 for it. He found Frankenstein in the mountains and made 

 him promise that he would create a mate for him, a female 

 with whom he might associate in love and sympathy. 



Frankenstein made the promise and set about the work, 

 but before it was completed he repented and destroyed 

 the creature he was making. Thereupon the monster ap- 

 peared and threatened him with the most dire vengeance. 

 He killed the dearest friend that Frankenstein had and 

 swore that he would be with him on his wedding night. 

 When that night came the monster murdered the bride 

 of Frankenstein and then departed for the region of the 

 north pole. Frankenstein attempted to follow for the pur- 

 pose of destroying the demon, but in the northern seas he 

 was picked up in an exhausted condition by a ship on 

 board of which he expired after giving a full account of all 

 that had happened. The monster fled towards the north 

 with the expressed intention of immolating himself on an 

 immense funeral pyre. 



From this the reader will see that Frankenstein was not 

 the monster and to the latter no name is given in the 

 romance. 



