The Frankensteins
What does Caroline Frankenstein wish for Victor and Elizabeth
That Victor and Elizabeth are happy, get married, and have a bright future
What does Victor do after the creation of the creature?
Runs away in fear and horror
The Creature’s loneliness and rejection develop this theme?
Isolation
Romantic writers often viewed this setting as powerful, healing, and inspiring
Nature
How old was Mary Shelley when she published Frankenstein
19
What is the name of Victor's younger brother who is murdered?
William Frankenstein
Describe The Creature's appearance
Tall figure with yellow skin so taut it barely covered his underlying muscles and arteries.
Pearly white teeth and long flowing black hair
Yellowed-watery eyes
What is galvanism?
Experiments using electricity to affect muscles or life processes
Mary Shelley’s novel reflects Romantic fears about this growing movement focused on logic, machines, and scientific advancement
Scientific Exploration/Experimentation
Industrial Revolution
Which famous poet did Mary Shelley marry and what was so scandalous about their marriage?
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary was only 16 and he was married with a pregnant wife
What is the name of young servant girl taken in by the Frankensteins who is later accused of murder?
Justine Morwitz
The Creature learns language and human behavior by observing who?
The DeLacey Family
Victor and the creature both experience this destructive desire by the end of the novel
Revenge
Prometheus was known for giving forbidden fire to humans. How is Victor like Prometheus
Where Prometheus gave humanity the forbidden fire, Victor "stole" the ultimate forbidden fire—the secret of creating life from death—playing God and overstepping human limits
Who was Mary Shelley’s mother, and why was she important?
She one of the first feminist, Mary Wallstonecraft
How does Elizabeth become part of the Frankenstein family?
Caroline Frankenstein wants a companion for Victor and adopts her from distant relatives while traveling
What does Victor do to the female counter-part he creates for The Creature?
Tears her apart
Both Victor Frankenstein and Macbeth are consumed by a desire to relentlessly pursue and conquer the forbidden, what is this theme called?
What is Unchecked Ambition (Hamartia)
Irony is defined as a contrast between what we expect and the reality of what happens. What is ironic about Victor’s work/labor and the life he poured into it and the reality of what he produced ?
Victor pours his soul into conquering death and creating a beautiful, superior new species, but instead produces a terrifying monster that brings rampant death and destruction to everything he holds dear
Mary Shelley’s novel was originally published anonymously in this year
1818
What is the name of the Frankenstein Patriarch
Alphonse Frankenstein
Name all of the individuals that The Creature has killed, both directly and indirectly
William Frankenstein
Justine Moritz
Henry Clerval
Alphonse Frankenstein
Elizabeth Lavenza
Victor Frankenstein's relentless, arrogant pursuit of knowledge and his desire to play God is an example of what?
Dangers of Too Much Knowledge
How are the the “physical monster” and the “inner monster” revealed the novel
-Physical= the Creature--> created monster
-Inner Monster= Victor and later The Creature due to isolation, pride, and revenge
Describe Mary Shelley’s beliefs about God and how they impacted the novel
Deistic
A creator who makes a creation but then abandons to let all things work alone