Question

Frankenstein:

"I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger, and far too unhappy to enjoy the beauties of nature or the peaceful scenery of the surrounding country. When night came, I quitted my seat and walked on through the darkness and the storm. The thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head, the flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, and illuminated the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire. Then for an instant, everything seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye gradually recovered its power of vision; the sky was even now blacker than before, the rain fell faster and pattered more loudly against the ground, and the thunder rolled with a frightful sound through the heavens. I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden, I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.

"Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity. On this occasion, a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me. All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality, the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known. All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable. By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge. In this mood of mind, I betook myself to the mathematics and the branches of study appertaining to that science as being built upon secure foundations, and so worthy of my consideration."

Why did Victor leave his home and travel to Chamounix and Mount Blanc?

Answer 1

Victor leaves his home and travels to Chamounix and Mount Blanc because he is feeling oppressed and unhappy by his previous studies and the destruction caused by the storm. He becomes fascinated by the theory of electricity and galvanism explained by a man he meets, and this leads him to abandon his previous studies and focus on mathematics instead.

Step-by-step explanation:

Victor leaves his home and travels to Chamounix and Mount Blanc because he is feeling oppressed and unhappy by his previous studies and the destruction caused by the storm. He becomes fascinated by the theory of electricity and galvanism explained by a man he meets, and this leads him to abandon his previous studies and focus on mathematics instead.

Victor's brother, William, is murdered, and a family friend, Justine, is blamed for the murder and executed. However, Victor knows that his monster is guilty of the crime. To process his grief, Victor leaves home and goes to Chamounix. Chapter 10 begins with Victor wandering around the glaciers and valleys of the area.

His father sees how depressed he is and tells Victor that he should try to find happiness, as living in sorrow will make life unbearable. Victor, his fiancee Elizabeth, and his father Alphonse leave Geneva and go to the Frankenstein home in Belrive, a bucolic village near the shores of Lake Geneva.