Characters
This character studies language and reads about chivalric stories. This character prefers studying the relations of things rather than science.
Who is Henry Clerval?
The literary period to which the novel ultimately belongs. It runs from 1780 to 1830.
What is Romanticism/Romantic Era?
Victor misinterprets the Creature's final intentions. This is the intended final victim of the Creature.
Who is Elizabeth?
This is the name of Felix's sister.
Who is Agatha?
This Latin phrase is referred to throughout the novel when Shelley is describing how the creature's treatment by society makes him evil.
What is tabula rasa?
This is the child who is adopted from an Italian family by the Frankensteins.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
The style of novel which begins with an outside narrator and then moves inward into another narrator. It is a story within a story.
What is a frame narrative/frame story?
This is the Creature's first victim.
Who is William?
This character is framed for the murder of Victor's younger brother.
Who is Justine Moritz?
This motif dominates the Creature's thoughts and actions after the female creature is destroyed.
What is revenge or vengeance?
This is the name of the old blind man whom the creature attempts to befriend.
Who is de Lacey?
This style of literature is characterized by dark landscapes and an ominous tone. It often involves a narrator who is flawed and destroys himself during the course of the novel.
What is Gothic?
This event sparks Victor's interest in the mystery of science and electricity.
What is a bolt of lightning striking a tree?
This is the literary term for a character whose traits highlight the opposite traits in another character.
What is a foil?
This is the theme that is exemplified in the cautionary tale told to Walton by Frankenstein. Victor warns Walton about spending too much time and effort doing this.
What is pursuit of knowledge/conquering nature?
This character is a "beautiful stranger" and is a plot tool for the creature to be able to learn language.
Who is Safie?
The name given to a character who begins the story as above the average man, but by the end, he has developed a flaw that leads to his own destruction.
What is a tragic hero?
When Henry is murdered, this is left on the body as evidence of the method of murder.
What are fingerprints on the neck?
This is how Mary Shelley's mother died.
What is as a result of childbirth?
This Greek term is a motif demonstrated by Victor's desire to create life.
What is hubris?
He is the man responsible for educating Victor in the ways of natural philosophy and discusses the old and new masters of the subject.
Who is M. Waldman?
This archetypal character is portrayed by a variety of characters in the novel. This is the dark, brooding, rebellious anti-hero.
What is the Byronic Hero?
What is The Sorrows of Werter?
This is the city where Victor attends college.
What is Ingolstadt?
This theme/motif is illustrated when Victor locks himself away in his lab, shunning his friends and family. It is common in Gothic literature, and Victor eventually warns against it. It is also popular with the Romantics.
What is isolation/alienation/disenfranchised man?