Wedding Night Gone Wrong
Victor marries this longtime companion at the beginning of Chapter 22.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
Victor dedicates the rest of his life to chasing the Creature across this harsh environment.
What is the wilderness/the Arctic/the frozen north?
The Creature leaves these behind to guide or torment Victor during the pursuit.
What are messages/notes/signs?
This explorer rescues Victor near the end of the novel.
Who is Robert Walton?
After Victor dies, the Creature secretly appears aboard this vessel.
What is Walton’s ship?
Victor incorrectly believes the Creature’s threat means this person will die on the wedding night.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
After Elizabeth’s death, this family member dies from grief and shock.
Who is Alphonse Frankenstein?
Victor’s journey becomes physically dangerous because of this extreme climate.
What is Arctic cold/frozen wilderness?
Walton originally travels north in search of this.
What is discovery/glory/scientific achievement?
The Creature describes himself as miserable because he lacks this emotional experience.
What is love/companionship/acceptance?
While Victor searches for the Creature outside, the Creature murders this character inside the inn.
Who is Elizabeth?
Victor becomes emotionally consumed by this desire after losing his loved ones.
What is revenge?
The Creature sometimes secretly helps Victor survive by leaving behind this necessity.
What is food?
Victor warns Walton about the dangers of pursuing this too obsessively.
What is ambition/knowledge?
The Creature insists that Victor’s hatred helped transform him into this.
What is a monster/fiend?
Elizabeth’s death represents the destruction of Victor’s hopes for this type of future.
What is domestic happiness/family life?
Victor asks a magistrate to help him pursue the Creature, but the official responds with this attitude.
What is skepticism/doubt?
Victor’s pursuit transforms him into someone increasingly similar to this character.
Who is the Creature?
Walton’s crew pressures him to do this because of the dangerous ice conditions.
What is turn back/go home?
At the end of the novel, the Creature announces his intention to do this.
What is die/commit suicide/burn himself?
The Creature fulfills his promise, “I shall be with you on your wedding-night,” through this act.
What is Elizabeth’s murder?
By Chapter 24, Victor has lost nearly every important human connection because of this original action.
What is the wilderness/the Arctic/the frozen north?
The Arctic setting symbolizes this larger thematic idea in the novel.
What is isolation/the destructive pursuit of ambition/the limits of humanity?
Walton functions as a parallel to Victor because both men are driven by this trait.
What is obsessive ambition?
The Creature’s final speech complicates the novel by encouraging readers to feel this toward him.
What is sympathy/pity/understanding?