1818
Doctor Victor Frankenstein creates his monster in Ingolstadt, Germany. Seeing how horrible he is, he flees in fear. The monster spends almost a year observing the De Lacey family in a cottage outside Ingolstadt, learning to speak. He reads Milton's Paradise Lost, Plutatch's Lives, and Goethe's the Sorrows of Werter. He attempts to present himself to the De Laceys but is driven off.