Literary Devices & Techniques
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.”
What is simile?
“A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France and England.”
What are Social Class Issues
The wife of Alphonse Frankenstein and mother of Victor. Her death was the catalyst in Victor's interest of the revival of the dead.
Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein.
“I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel.”
Who is the Creature
What is the name of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods of modern science?
Professor Waldman
“I had begun my adjuration with solemnity...but the furies possessed me as I concluded.”
What is mythological allusion
This symbolizes the pursuit of knowledge
What is fire
The Arabian
Who is Safie
“I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed that I might obtain absolution.”
Who is Justine Moritz
What Creature is doing when Walton first sees him?
He's driving a dog sled
Ruined castles, mystery, omens, visions, supernatural, women in distress, highly sentimental narration, gloom and horror
What are Gothic elements
Henry and Ernest for Victor
The judge in the murder of Henry Clerval
“You must pardon me if If I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.”
Who is Alfonse Frankenstein
Two of the three books that the creature finds while collecting food and firewood
What are
Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Sorrows of Werter
Paradise Lost
The use of Robert Walton and his story
What is Frame Tale
“But I have one want...and the absence of the object...I now feel as a most severe evil…I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous...whose tastes are like my own…”
What is the Need for Companionship or Friendship
He helped The Turk escape injustice and death in France. He unknowingly gave The Creature knowledge of all sorts including language, geography, and law.
Felix DeLacey
“Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?”
Who is Victor Frankenstein
How the Creature learns of his ugliness
What is seeing himself in pool of water
The spontaneous overflow of emotion recollected in tranquility
“...they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me...With this deep consciousness of what they owed…”
What is the Role/Duty/Obligation of Parents
Robert Walton’s sister
Who is Margaret Saville
"Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient?"
Who is Professor Krempe
The Creature’s reaction to Victor’s death
What are sorrow and remorse