Monster (Row 1)
Victor (Row 2)
Victor (Row 3)
Other (Row 4)
Hero and Romanticism
(Row 5)
100
How does the monster react to his murdering Elizabeth? 

The monster feels somehow satisfied and proud because he knew that he was successfully achieving his goal, revenge on all humans. However, the creature also knows that after he strangulated Elizabeth, Victor will search for him and kill him untiringly.
100
Who has been murdered, and why is Victor accused of the murder? 

The person who was murdered is Clerval whose body was left on an Irish beach by the monster, where Frankenstein gets washed up after the unintentional long trip, making him look as if he was the killer of Clerval, and he goes to prison, where he gets very sick.
100
Why does Victor decide to marry Elizabeth immediately? 

So that he can get married before the creature can get to her. He wants to stop fate.
100
How does Shelley build suspense in these chapters? 

She makes situations feel more calm but then shows that Victor knows about his destiny. Shelley starts making all the situations more dramatic and starts foreshadowing many different situations, like death and doom.
100
Explain how Victor is similar to a tragic hero. 

Explain how Victor is similar to a tragic hero. 
 Born in a family with a high reputation, has extraordinary aspirations, feels and thinks intensely, he has extra-humanly passions like if he was a God, the actions that led to his downfall and death were made with good intentions but he didn’t knew about their consequences, even if he he is a noble character he has a blind spot that allows him to commit so many errors, he deeply suffers because of his downfall, he dies and lose everything because of his own actions.
200
What is familiar about the method of the murder discovered in this chapter? 

The familiar thing about the method of murder is that Henry has black finger marks around his neck, just as William, meaning that the monster also killed another love one from Victor, and he squeezes his neck just like he wants to squeeze the life out of Victor for bringing him to life.
200
Why does Victor think he survived all that he had been through? How is the fact that he lives ironic? 

Victor thinks he has survived everything because he thinks his punishment for creating life is having to live suffering all the consequences. It is ironic because he wants to die from all the suffering but he can’t, he feels he is doomed to live.
200
What is different about Victor’s reaction to Elizabeth’s (and his father’s) death from the rest? 

When Victor noticed that her wife Elizabeth and his father were gone all because of the creature, he started to have negative feelings about the creature. Victor felt that he needed to revenge on the monster, which he never had before.
200
What does the word “acme” mean in the following context: “Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you”? 

In this context, “acme” is referring to a climax or summit of a horror story.
200
Explain how Victor is similar to a romantic hero. 

He has a great appreciation toward nature, he felt relieved and inspired when he visited the mountain and lakes of Switzerland, he feels intensely, and he fails in his quest but he ended up being wiser.
300
What is ironic about the desires of Victor and the creature? 

Victor wants to die, yet he can’t die, but the creature wants to live to the fullest but only if he gets a partner.
300
Victor makes several references to his destiny in this chapter. What does he believes his destiny to be? 

Victor noticed that his secret (the creature) is being very noticeable and he thinks that it's too much for him to control it. Due to his constant stress and anxiety about the creature, he accuses himself of murder. He believes that the creature is destined to kill him.
300
Victor, in his anger, says to the magistrate, “How ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom.” What is the irony in this? 

This is ironic because all Victor’s outrages were initially caused because of his wisdom and pride that led him to create the monster, who later became the murderer of his family.
300
On his deathbed, Victor admits that he had an obligation to make sure his creature had a happy life. What is ironic about the excuse he offers for not doing so? 

Victor admits that his priorities were wrong, he also says that what he most desired was the welfare of all humans. This is ironic because this desire wasn’t take account while creating the creature, he isolated himself from all humans because he was too busy with his creation.
300
How does Victor depart from the typical tragic hero?
He is different from a typical tragic hero since he makes his own decisions, when tragic heroes get controlled by fate.
400
Someone will die by getting killed.
What do you think will happen on Victor and Elizabeth’s wedding night?
400
Why does Victor feel he can’t be with people? What opinion does Victor express about his creation? 

Victor is weak and wants to be consoled in society, but Victor cannot and feels disgust for society, because he doesn’t feel worthy of living amongst humans. He feels that his creation gets happy only with killing, which makes him feel the creature deserves hatred.
400
In Chapter XX, Victor says his calmness is brought by despair. At the beginning of Chapter XXIV, he says his calculating revenge brings him calm. What does this change say about his character after the deaths of his wife and father?
This shows that Victor completely changed, before he was just depressed and stressed but now he is expressing his desire to revenge on the creature. This is also shows us how much Victor loved Elizabeth and his father, otherwise he wouldn’t seek revenge nor change personality.
400
How does the end of the novel justify the concentric levels of narration introduced at the beginning? 

The protagonist of the book who is Victor Frankenstein is narrating his history in first-person, however cannot narrate his own death. Shelley uses another character, which is Walton, to narrate Victor’s death through the letters he sent to his sister Margaret.
400
In what way does Elizabeth restore the Romantic Victor? 

By marrying him, since she represents everything that is pure and beautiful to Victor.
500
What does the creature want Victor to do now? How does that show a difference in the creature’s character from the point when he wanted a companion? 

The creature wants Victor suffer while he is still alive. He thinks that to live with sufferings is more painful than an inmediate death. That’s why the monster hasn’t killed Victor yet, beacusae he prefers him to suffer a lot. Before, the creature’s only wish was to have an accompanion but now he has another wish which is to make suffer as much as possible. This desire definately shows that the monster became completely evil and murdereous.
500
When does it finally occur to Victor that he has foolishly misinterpreted the creature’s threat? 

When Victor heard Elizabeth’s scream and found her dead.
500
Consider Victor’s statement: “When I rejected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd or common projectors...All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained to eternal hell” How does this establish Victor as a tragic hero? 

At the beginning of the book, Victor researched about the mysteries of life but it was never his intention to create a murderous monster. However, he felt himself like God because he believed that he could create a living creature. At the end, he noticed that he felt identified with the Satan of Paradise Lost. Victor believes that all the outrages were caused because he challenged God’s omnipotence, therefore punishment came to Victor because of his actions.
500
What does the word “torpor” mean in the following context?: “But my general state of being was a torpor, in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature”?
Topor in the context means that he is in a mental state of inactivity, meaning that he is basically shut down, not functional. 

500
How does the inclusion of Captain Walton affect the overall meaning of the book? 

Walton was a person who was obsessed with achieving something that anyone has ever done, just like Victor once did when he created the monster. However he changes his mind after hearing all the outrages that Victor passed outrages all because of his curiosity and obsession. Therefore Walton decided to abort his mission and return to England, this decision breaks the idea of Romantic quest.
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