Frankenstein: Chapter 14

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Summary Analysis Themes

The monster figures out the history of the family, the De Laceys. Once prominent and well respected, Felix fell in love with Safie and helped her father, a man wrongly accused of a crime, escape from prison. Felix’s role in the escape was discovered, and the family lost its wealth and was exiled by the government. When Safie’s father tried to force her to return to Turkey, she escaped, not wanting to be constrained by Islam’s oppressive stance on women, and came to find Felix.

All kinds of human fallibility are at work here: Safie’s father is a falsely condemned criminal, Felix is a conspirator, and marriage, a supposedly pure union of souls, needs to be brokered like an illicit business deal.