Name That Tune
"I believe it were better for you if you were dead."
The woman who watches over Victor while he's in prison
How does the creature kill Elizabeth?
He sneaks into their wedding chamber and strangles her to death.
False. Truly enraging that he doesn't do this.
When Victor vows that his only purpose in living is killing the creature, he is invoking which device?
A paradox.
What specific experience do Justine and Victor share?
Both have been accused of killing someone they didn't...Justine, William, and Victor, Henry. But only Victor is spared.
“I fear that this place is very shocking to you; can I do any thing to make you more comfortable?”
Mr. Kirwin, the kindly judge who oversees Victor's case
According to Victor, what is the sole thing keeping him alive in the wake of Elizabeth's and his father's deaths?
Revenge
True or false: The Creature circles back to strangle Victor's father.
False: Upon hearing about Elizabeth's death, Victor's father collapses from an apoplectic fit and dies in his arms days later.
The fact that the prison doctor and the old woman are attempting to heal Victor in prison before he is hanged (as they believe he will be) is which device?
Irony or a paradox
What means of conveyance does Victor use in the final leg of his chase of the creature (the weeks before he runs into Walton's ship)?
Sledge and dogs
"Answer me, I conjure you, by our mutual happiness with simple truth--Do you not love another?"
Elizabeth, in her letter, begging Victor to clarify if he still wants to marry her.
What does Victor do in the graveyard he visits after his wedding?
Kisses the graves of William, Justine, and his father and vows revenge.
True or false: Victor vows to pursue the creature until one or both of them dies.
True
Name a dominant device in this passage and be clear about how it is working.
"The cup of life was poisoned for ever; and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me."
A metaphor comparing life to a drink
The polarity of light and dark
The polarity of happy and sad
Hyperbole: poisoned forever with no light at all
Where, specifically, does the creature leave messages to Victor?
On the bark of trees.
"Be assured, sir, that no pains or exertions on my part shall be spared to discover the villain."
The magistrate.
Who does Victor fear when Mr. Kirwin tells him he has a visitor in prison?
He fears it's the creature who has come to visti but it's Victor's father
True or false, Victor takes some of his mother's jewlery to fund his search for the creature?
True. Her jewlery has been consequential in trapping Justine and in helping him; his mother works from beyond the grave.
This description of Elizabeth's dead body contains which device?
"She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her; and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm, and a handkerchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have supposed her asleep."
Understatement.
Comparing death to falling asleep is classic understatement, and it stands out against his many hysterical and hyperbolic descriptions of her murder.
True or false: Several of Victor's dogs die of exhaustion.
True
"You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congealed with horror, like that which even now curdles mine? "
Walton to his sister
What has Victor started taking at night?
Laudanum, a sleep agent made of poppies, so in the same family as heroin.
True or False: Out of desperation, Victor dismembers and eats his sled dogs?
False he's heartsick about their deaths.
But this was not the time for delay; I disencumbered the dogs of their dead companion, gave them a plentiful portion of food; and, after an hour’s rest, which was absolutely necessary, and yet which was bitterly irksome to me, I continued my route.
Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery; when once, after the poor animals that carried me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one sinking under his fatigue died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.
Personification: calling despair "her"
What does Victor beg Walton to do at the end of the narration of his part of the story?
To drive a sword through the creature's heart.