Chapters 21–22: Victor is accused of Henry Clerval’s murder, collapses into illness, and then returns to Geneva with his father, fearing the creature’s promise to be with him on his wedding night.

In Chapters 21–22, Victor is arrested in a foreign town and horrified to discover that the murdered man he’s accused of killing is his close friend Henry Clerval. The shock sends Victor into another long illness, and he narrowly escapes conviction with the help of his father and a sympathetic magistrate. After his release, Victor returns to Geneva with his father, haunted by the creature’s threat and by the growing list of lives destroyed by his experiment. Plans are made for his marriage to Elizabeth, even as he dreads what might happen on their wedding night.

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