Sympathy for the Devil?
Who is the adoptive sister and eventual wife of Victor?
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
Who is the first narrator introduced in the novel?
Who is Robert Walton?
“You are my creator, but I am your master—obey!”
Who is the Creature?
In which country is Victor’s university, where he creates the Creature?
🟢 What is Germany (Ingolstadt)?
What literary technique is used through the novel’s multiple layers of narration?
🟢 What is a frame narrative?
What theme is explored through Victor’s decision to abandon the Creature?
🟢 What is the responsibility of the creator to the created?
How does the Creature first learn language and society?
🟢 What is by observing the De Lacey family in the cottage?
What mythological figure is referenced in the novel’s subtitle?
🟢 Who is Prometheus?
Who serves as a foil to Victor by demonstrating restraint and rationality?
Who is Henry Clerval?
What event prompts Victor to return to Geneva from university?
What is the murder of William Frankenstein?
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example...”
🟢 Who is Victor Frankenstein, warning Walton about blind ambition?
What does the icy Arctic setting symbolize in the frame narrative?
🟢 What is isolation, ambition, or the extremity of human endeavor?
What type of point of view dominates most of the novel?
🟢 What is first-person retrospective narration?
What central theme does the Creature’s isolation reveal?
🟢 What is the need for human connection and the consequences of rejection?
What book most influences the Creature’s sense of identity and alienation?
🟢 What is Milton’s Paradise Lost?
Why is Victor like Prometheus?
🟢 What is he defies natural limits by giving life, and suffers for it?
What motivates Victor to initially study natural philosophy and chemistry?
What is a desire to overcome death and understand the secrets of life?
Where does Victor first meet the Creature after it flees his lab?
What is in the mountains near Mont Blanc?
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”
🟢 Who is the Creature, comparing himself to biblical figures?
What does the storm that occurs during the Creature’s awakening symbolize?
🟢 What is the unnatural power and disruption of nature?
Why might Shelley have chosen an epistolary form to begin the novel?
🟢 What is to lend realism, credibility, and multiple perspectives to the tale?
How does Shelley question the Enlightenment ideal of scientific progress?
🟢 What is by showing its potential for dehumanization and ethical neglect?
300 – Why does the Creature turn to violence after trying to be virtuous?
🟢 What is rejection, betrayal, and suffering despite his efforts to be good?
What Romantic writer was Mary Shelley’s husband?
🟢 Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
How does Walton’s ambition mirror that of Victor’s?
What is their shared obsession with glory through discovery and conquest?
Who is executed for a crime they did not commit?
Who is Justine Moritz?
“Unhappy man! Do you share my madness?”
Who is Victor, warning to Walton to abandon his voyage?
How does Shelley use the Alps in her descriptions?
🟢 What is to represent the Romantic sublime—beauty, awe, and terror?
What structural technique is used when the Creature recounts his life to Victor?
🟢 What is a narrative within a narrative (embedded narrative)?
Why does Victor destroy the female companion he begins creating?
🟢 What is fear of creating a new race, and of the female’s independent will?
How does the Creature’s story complicate the idea of monstrosity?
🟢 What is by showing he is thoughtful, articulate, and morally reflective?
What major literary work heavily influences the Creature’s worldview?
🟢 What is Paradise Lost by John Milton?
What is the irony of Victor calling the Creature a “fiend” and “daemon”?
What is that Victor’s own actions are arguably more monstrous than the Creature’s?
What is Victor doing when the Creature brings Elizabeth’s death full circle?
What is on his honeymoon, searching the house on their wedding night?
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
🟢 Who is Victor, reflecting on the instability of the mind and trauma?
What is the symbolic function of light and fire throughout the novel?
🟢 What is representing knowledge, enlightenment, and the double-edged danger of discovery?
How does Shelley’s narrative structure support the novel’s themes?
🟢 What is by presenting subjective truths, layered perspectives, and the unreliability of any one account?
What moral ambiguity lies at the heart of Victor’s final quest for vengeance?
🟢 What is that his desire to kill the Creature mirrors the Creature’s cycle of revenge, making him ethically compromised?
What is the significance of the Creature’s final speech to Walton?
🟢 What is it shows his remorse and longing for peace, deepening the tragedy of his existence?
How does Shelley critique Enlightenment values through the novel?
🟢 What is by showing the moral consequences of unrestrained reason and ambition?