Belrive
The eastern shore of the lake, a little over a league from Geneva, where the Frankenstein family owned a campagne; it was here, when Victor was about fifteen, that a violent thunderstorm advancing from the Jura mountains destroyed an oak tree with a stream of fire, an event that later helped turn him from occult studies to mathematics.
The eastern shore of the lake, a little over a league from Geneva, where the Frankenstein family owned a campagne; it was here, when Victor was about fifteen, that a violent thunderstorm destroyed an oak tree with a stream of fire, an event that helped turn him from occult studies to mathematics. After Justine's death the family retired here again, a move that pleased Victor since it freed him from the confinement of Geneva's walls.
Events
- was the location where, at about fifteen years old, the narrator witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm that destroyed an oak tree. · revealed ch.6
- was where the Frankenstein family retired to after Justine's death, a change agreeable to Victor because it freed him from the irksome confinement within Geneva's walls. · revealed ch.13
Nothing has been revealed about Belrive yet at this point in the book.