Literary devices
Identify the literary device used in: “Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens…”
Personification
Who narrates the outer frame of the novel and corresponds to “Telling the story”
Robert Walton
Which theme best matches the quote: “How, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature…”?
Abandonment & Rejection
Define “knowledge and discovery” as a theme in Frankenstein with one example from the provided content (1–2 sentences)
Victor’s experiments and creation of life (e.g., Victor “bestowing life into inanimate matter”) illustrate the theme.
Which device best fits this line: “I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils…”
Simile
Which character is Victor’s close friend and represents human companionship and moral contrast?
Henry Clerval
Identify the theme in the passage: “The old man… often endeavored to encourage his children… to cast off their melancholy.”
Family & the universal need to be loved
Give one textual example (from the provided content) that shows prejudice and injustice toward the Creature.
villagers attack the Creature; he is rejected and mistreated despite seeking warmth/companionship.
Name the device used in: “…divine a retreat as Pandaemonium appeared to the demons of hell…
Allusion
What is the nationality of the “beautiful stranger” who comes to the cottagers?
Arabian/Safie
Which theme is shown when the villagers attack the Creature on his first approach to them?
Prejudice & Injustice
Using the character list, explain how family and the need to be loved influence Victor’s and the Creature’s actions (2–3 sentences).
Family: Victor’s losses (William, Justine’s execution affecting his family) and the Creature’s longing for the De Lacey family show how love or its absence propels action.
Which literary device is at work in: “I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. … they became livid with the hue of death.”
Foreshadowing/imagery
After creating the Creature, Victor becomes what?
Very ill
Which theme applies to the Creature’s discovery of fire and the pain he suffers when learning its properties?
Knowledge & Discovery
Chronology items, place these events in order 1-5 and explain briefly how they show the theme of abandonment and rejection
(Walton Finds Frankenstein, The Creature begs Frankenstein for a mate, The Creature murders Henry, Caroline dies of scarlet fever, Justine is executed)
1). Caroline dies of scarlet
2). Justine is executed
3). The Creature begs Frankenstein for a mate
4). The Creature murders Henry
5). Walton Finds Frankenstein
Explain how personification functions in the Creature’s description of fire and explain its effect on readers’ sympathy.
Personification: fire described as giving warmth/response; evokes empathy because it shows it shows the Creature learning and feeling
Using the frame narrative structure, explain briefly why Walton’s letters are important to the novel’s themes?
Walton’s letters frame Victor’s narrative, showing ambition and the limits of knowledge, and offer an outside perspective that reinforces the novel’s warnings about unchecked discovery.
Read the line: “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph… ‘I too can create desolation…’ ” Explain in two sentences how this passage relates to the Good vs Evil theme and to abandonment.
Good VS Evil and Abandonment & rejection
Synthesize: How do the themes of knowledge & discovery and good vs evil interact in Victor’s decision to destroy the female Creature?
Victor’s pursuit of knowledge leads him to create life, which prompts moral questions about responsibility; when the Creature asks for a mate, Victor initially agrees but later destroys the female, fearing further consequences. This act frames Victor as ambivalent between scientific curiosity and moral dread, complicating a simple good-vs-evil reading because both creator and creature commit harmful acts.