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Frankenstein pursues the creature over land and sea, motivated by vengeance. The creature deliberately leaves clues, and Vic follows him to the frozen north where the story begins. The cold is too much for Walton and his crew. The mission is a failure. Frankenstein dies. The creature appears and gives one last soliloquy before disappearing with the intention of killing himself with fire.

Vic mucks about before heading to England with Clerval to create the female. He is betrothed to Elizabeth on his return.
In Scotland, while building the female, he decides the creatures cannot be trusted or predicted, and destroys the female’s frame in front of the creature’s horrified eyes. The creature kills Clerval in retaliation.
When Vic returns, he marries Elizabeth, whom the creature promptly kills.

Vic hikes a mountain, where the creature confronts him. The latter tells his origin story:
He was chased out of town by villagers. He observes a family to learn speech and literacy while gathering firewood for them. When he reveals himself, they attack him. He saves a drowning girl but is shot by her father.
Creature’s suffering is Vic’s fault, and Vic must create a female creature to accompany the creature.

Upon Frankenstein's return to his hometown, he discovers that his little brother William has been murdered by the creature. The servant Justine is framed for the murder, and, Victor being too weak to intervene strongly, she is executed.

R. Walton is on a ship expedition to the North Pole. He finds Dr. Vic Frankenstein stranded on an ice floe and brings him aboard, nursing him to health. Frankenstein tells a tale of why he’s there.
He tells of his childhood, creation of his creature in early adulthood, and return to his hometown afterward.