00:16We now present George Edwards in Frankenstein.
00:32Baron Frankenstein related his experiences to Captain Walton, the master of the Voyager,
00:38the vessel which was bound on a journey in polar exploration.
00:42While the Voyager was icebound, Captain Walton spent much time with Baron Frankenstein,
00:48who was gradually recovering his health.
01:01Oh, Baron Frankenstein, I thought perhaps you might share the book of my journal.
01:06I have noted your story now very carefully.
01:08If you will leave it, I will look through it, Captain.
01:12You do not mind if I make some annotations?
01:15Not at all. I will be very grateful.
01:17I am glad that you have noted my story in your journal,
01:20because something tells me that I will never return to civilization.
01:26You must not say that. You are recovering splendidly.
01:28I know, I know, but I dare not return until I am certain that the monster is dead.
01:36We know that he is somewhere out there in the white waste,
01:41waiting to wreck his foul vengeance on some defenseless human being.
01:46You will pardon my contradicting you, Baron, but we do not know that.
01:50I think the monster must have perished in the blizzard.
01:54What part of my story did I reach yesterday?
01:57You were telling of your conversation with the monster.
02:01You met him after he had murdered the peasant,
02:04and he threatened to kill your wife unless you created a mate for him.
02:08Yes.
02:09I sat there in the little peasant cottage,
02:12and I was horrified at the monster's words.
02:16He gazed at me for some time,
02:18and said,
02:20Foul monster,
02:21Foul monster, you seek to arouse my sympathy.
02:23Do you not know that you have turned my wife against me?
02:27Had I but heeded her advice,
02:29you would never have lived.
02:31I came to destroy you the day after your creation,
02:35but I was too late.
02:38You had escaped,
02:40and you had already taken a life.
02:43I will take no more lives if you will accede to my request.
02:50When I left your home,
02:53I wandered through the woods,
02:56and there I saw the child whom you called William.
03:01As soon as he saw me,
03:04he screamed and sought to run away,
03:07but I seized him by the arm and spoke softly to him,
03:12bidding him not to be afraid.
03:15He told me that his uncle was Baron Frankenstein,
03:19and that I would be punished if I harmed him.
03:23At the mention of your name,
03:26I trembled with rage,
03:27and in a fit of black rage and despair,
03:32I kill the child.
03:35Just as I shall kill all of your family,
03:38unless you create for me a mate.
03:43I cannot bring myself to do such a thing.
03:46You are hideous and horrible.
03:48Were I to create another like you,
03:51I might unleash another horror on the world.
03:54My companion must be as deformed and horrible as myself.
04:02One from whom everyone will shrink,
04:05and who will turn to me for comfort.
04:08But I cannot do it.
04:10You must do it,
04:12or I will work against you
04:14so that you shall curse the very day that you were born,
04:18so that you will curse those whose hands created me.
04:22I do curse them now.
04:25I seek to reason with you.
04:29You are my creator.
04:32Let me feel gratitude towards you.
04:35Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing being.
04:40Do not, I beg of you,
04:43deny me my reward.
04:48I have tried to paint for you
04:51a picture of misery,
04:53the horror,
04:54and the suffering which I have undergone.
04:57All I ask is a mate as hideous and repulsive as myself.
05:02Do I see compassion in your eyes?
05:06And if I consent,
05:09what then?
05:11If you consent,
05:13neither you nor every other human being
05:16shall ever see us again.
05:18I will take my mate
05:20and go to the vast and frozen waves of the north.
05:24Your body is deformed,
05:26and your mind is deformed.
05:28I have learned that I cannot control the mind
05:31of any creature which I create.
05:33If I create a mate for you,
05:36she will also have the desire to kill,
05:39to inflict misery on others.
05:41Oh, I dare not do it.
05:44If you refuse,
05:46I swear that all you know and love
05:48shall die as others have died.
05:50I will haunt this earth,
05:52the enemy of mankind,
05:54who are my enemies.
05:56So be it.
05:58I must consent to your demand
06:00on your solemn oath
06:01that you will take your mate into exile
06:04so that none will ever see you again.
06:08Do you?
06:09Do you swear to that?
06:12I swear by the sun
06:14and by the blue sky of heaven
06:17and by the fire of the love
06:19that burns in my heart
06:21that if you grant my prayer,
06:23you will never behold me again.
06:25Depart to your home
06:26and commence your labors.
06:28I shall watch your progress
06:31with anxiety
06:33and mark this well.
06:35When you are ready,
06:37when your labors are complete,
06:40I shall appear.
06:42And if you fail me,
06:44you know the penalty.
06:48Farewell, Frankenstein.
06:51I trust that soon
06:52we shall meet again
06:55and that the meeting
06:57shall bring happiness.
07:01But Baron Frankenstein,
07:03surely you did not
07:05accede to the monster's request?
07:07Well, after he had left
07:08the little cottage I sat
07:09and I fought for a long time,
07:12I realized that he was
07:13a vile and horrible creature
07:15and that he had demanded
07:17that I should create
07:19just such another creature.
07:20And my heart was heavy.
07:23With dragging footsteps,
07:25I returned home
07:26where I found my wife
07:28and my friend,
07:30Ernst Clavar,
07:31awaiting me.
07:32As soon as I entered,
07:34it is my secret place.
07:36Oh, Victor,
07:37I am so glad
07:38you have returned.
07:39I drove you away
07:41with harsh words last night,
07:42but I regretted my words.
07:45Tell me, what knew it?
07:46The monster still lived.
07:49Victor, my friend,
07:50I have heard of your trouble.
07:52Elizabeth has told me.
07:53Let me offer you
07:54all the aid that I can.
07:56Together we shall destroy
07:57this vile creature.
07:59Have no fear.
07:59The monster will do
08:00no more harm.
08:01There will be no other death.
08:03How can you know that?
08:04Well, I have spoken with him
08:05and there shall be
08:06no more death.
08:08Rest assured of that, Elizabeth.
08:10Oh, I am so glad.
08:11But can you trap this monster?
08:13I have been greatly punished
08:15for my sin.
08:16Tell me this, Victor.
08:18Did you consent
08:18to the monster's request?
08:20Surely you did not promise
08:22to create a mess for him.
08:24Elizabeth,
08:24there is so much at stake.
08:26So much harm
08:27has been done.
08:27Victor,
08:28you cannot do it.
08:30Already there is
08:31one vile,
08:32bloodthirsty monster
08:33roaming here.
08:34Dare you create another?
08:35Oh, give me time
08:36to think, please.
08:37Oh, Elizabeth,
08:38he is upset.
08:39Leave him alone with me now
08:40and I will talk with him.
08:41Oh, I am thoughtless.
08:43Poor Victor
08:43has been out all night.
08:44He needs refreshing.
08:45I will see that
08:46Amir is prepared
08:47for you, Victor.
08:48Oh, I thank you, Elizabeth.
08:49Remain here with Ernst
08:50and we shall talk
08:51of the matter later.
08:53Victor, my poor friend,
08:55my heart is heavy for you.
08:56What can I do
08:57to help you?
08:57Oh, help me, Ernst.
08:59I must grant
09:00the monster's demand.
09:01I tried to kill him.
09:03My shot wounded him,
09:04but he did not die.
09:05And before I could fire again,
09:07he took the gun from me.
09:09Did you promise
09:10to create a mate for him?
09:11I did,
09:12but my work
09:14shall not be done here.
09:16I will travel
09:17to some lonely island
09:18and there
09:19I will have to study again
09:20for many months
09:21and there
09:22I will create
09:23a mate for the monster
09:24which I created.
09:25You must not do it, Victor.
09:27I must do it.
09:28Oh, having created
09:29one such hideous monstrosity
09:30as a sin,
09:31a sin for which
09:32you have paid heavily,
09:33do not create another.
09:34If I do not,
09:35your life is in danger.
09:37Elizabeth's life
09:38is in danger.
09:39I must do
09:39as the monster says.
09:41So be it.
09:42I shall accompany you
09:43and I will help you
09:44with your work.
09:45Oh, you are kind,
09:46my friend.
09:46A friend of mine
09:47has a cottage
09:48on a little island
09:48in the Ocnees.
09:50I know that he will
09:51lend us this cottage
09:52and you will be able
09:53to conduct your work there.
09:54But I am against it, Victor.
09:56I do not think
09:57you should do it.
09:58Ah,
09:59I must do it.
10:00But I feel sure
10:01that if I grant
10:03his request,
10:04there will be
10:05no further trouble.
10:06But how can you be sure
10:07you cannot control
10:08the minds of the creatures
10:09which you create?
10:10Oh,
10:11we shall tell Elizabeth
10:12you are taking me away
10:13from my health,
10:14that I am going
10:14for a sea trip
10:15for several months.
10:16Then I will be able
10:17to return here
10:18to find happiness
10:19when my work is done.
10:21It seems the only way.
10:22The servants
10:23are preparing a meal
10:24for you, Victor.
10:25Oh, thank you, Elizabeth.
10:26I have just been
10:27talking matters over
10:28with Ernst
10:28and he thinks
10:29that I should go away
10:30with him for a sea trip.
10:31My health has been undermined
10:33by all this dreadful worry.
10:34You are going away
10:35without me.
10:36Oh, but you will be safe here.
10:37I know that the monster
10:38will not harm you.
10:39I feel that I must go away
10:41without you
10:41this time, Elizabeth.
10:43Where are you going?
10:44We have not decided yet.
10:45But will you not
10:46trust him to my chair, Elizabeth?
10:48I will, Ernst.
10:49But I want to ask you
10:50one question, Victor.
10:51Do you intend
10:52to grant the monster's demand?
10:54My dear,
10:55I am going away
10:55from here
10:56so that I will not
10:57grant the monster's demand.
10:58My laboratory
10:59and all my instruments
11:00are here.
11:01I am leaving them.
11:02I am striving
11:03to forget about the monster.
11:05You need have no fear.
11:06I know that the monster
11:07will do no further harm.
11:09What did you say to him?
11:10Well, I do not like
11:11to think of it.
11:12But I spoke with him
11:14and he swears
11:14that he will not
11:15commit another murder.
11:16Is he not to be punished
11:17for the murder
11:18he has already committed?
11:19Oh, there is nothing
11:20we can do at present,
11:21my dear.
11:22If the Burgomaster's men
11:23find the monster,
11:24they will kill him.
11:25Believe me, Elizabeth,
11:26Victor is asking
11:27for the best.
11:28Be content
11:29to leave him
11:29in my charge.
11:30I must be content.
11:32You have nothing
11:32to fear, Elizabeth.
11:34Now wait here
11:34until I return.
11:36I will recover my health.
11:37I will forget
11:38the miseries
11:38of the past.
11:39When I come back here,
11:41I swear that you
11:42and I
11:42shall never be parted again
11:44and nothing
11:45shall ever happen
11:46to my heart.
11:47Did you eventually
11:49go to that island
11:49in the Orkneys,
11:50Baron Frankenstein?
11:51I went to the island
11:52in the Orkneys.
11:54I will tell you
11:54of my experiences
11:55if you come to me
11:57again a little later,
11:58Captain Wharton.
11:59I wish to look
12:00through your journal now
12:01and I may make
12:03several corrections.
12:04Very well,
12:05Baron Frankenstein.
12:05I will leave you alone now,
12:07but I will return later.
12:27I will return later.
