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2. * center of the characters life, where he feels most comfortable and safe; it is his sanctuary. * The place where somebody was born or raised or feels that he or she belongs.

3. * In the novel, Victor feels a gnawing emptiness when he parts from his “home”, the presence of Elizabeth. To Victor, Elizabeth is sanctuary. After devoting his life to his experiment which resulted in failure, Frankenstein realized his only passion left was Elizabeth. When the creature rips her away from Victor he feels his only purpose in life is to take revenge on the fiend.

4. * In Frankenstein, the presence of the always caring and innocent Elizabeth, his adopted sister, is Victor’s idea of being at home, because she continued to care for Frankenstein even when he left her for his studies during his struggles through her informational letters and positive reinforcement she constantly supplied.

5. * Throughout Frankenstein’s path to his eventual demise as he leaves Geneva, Elizabeth is continually the beacon in the storm. The presence of Elizabeth is that of the perfect woman, docile yet playful, which explains Frankenstein feelings of safety with her as she transforms from a maternal figure and then to a spouse. Therefore, whenever Frankenstein is confronted with misfortune, he turns to Elizabeth as his state of mind of “home”.

6. * “And could not such words from her whom I fondly prized before every other gift of fortune, suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart? Even as she spoke I drew near her, as if in terror; lest at that very moment the destroyer had been near to rob me of her” (Shelley 64). * “For myself, there was one reward promised myself from my detested foils-one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth, and forget the past in union with her” (Shelley 110). * Frankentstein shows the great attachment he has to Elizabeth, and how very scared he was to lose her. The only thing keeping him going is the possibility of their union in order for him to ever feel sane again.

7. * “The sun might shine, or the clouds might our; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness: no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an even is single in the history of man” (Shelley 146). * “ ‘ I have but one resource; and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction’ ” (Shelley 148). * Shelley skillfully describes the excruciating agony and relentless hunger for revenge that Frankenstein feels after the death of Elizabeth. No other death in this book caused him to become this way, and only after Elizabeth, his “home”, is taken from him, does he pursue the monster in search of revenge.

8. * When Frankenstein's mother died from scarlet fever, Elizabeth transformed to become the maternal figure in the household. Because of this metamorphosis, Elizabeth became a state of mind of “Home” and security for Frankenstein.

9. * On the wedding night of Victor and Elizabeth, the creature steals Elizabeth’s life away although Frankenstein believed he was the one to die. Home, the presence of Elizabeth, is ripped from Frankenstein. Frankenstein, worthless without his sense of self and home, devotes himself to destroying the monster he has created.

10. * “I continued some time walking up and down the passages…inspecting every corner…I heard a shrill and dreadful scream…from the room Elizabeth retired” (Shelley 144-145) * Frankenstein was consumed with the fear that the creature would come to destroy him. However, the creature, who felt he did not have his own place of sanctuary, decided to destroy Frankenstein's “home”, the presence of Elizabeth.

11. * “I rushed the window, and drawing a pistol from my bosom, [I] fired” (Shelley 146) * Although Frankenstein is consumed by grief over the death of Elizabeth, his sadness quickly turns to rage when he catches sight of the creature. From this sudden change in mood, the readers learn how important Elizabeth was to Frankenstein's state of mind of “home”

12. * “’But beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery’” (Shelley 122) * The creature foreshadows his malevolent intentions, after Frankenstien denies the creature of a female companion. Frankenstein fails to realize that the creature intends to destroy his only sense of sanctuary, Elizabeth.

13. * Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Barnes and Noble Classics. * Dictionary.com