Characters
This ambitious scientist creates the Creature
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
The city where Victor creates the Creature
What is Ingolstadt?
The dangerous pursuit of this drives Victor to ruin.
What is knowledge? (or unchecked ambition?)
The scientific theory involving electricity that inspired the novel.
What is galvanism?
The Creature teaches himself to read using this book about human fall.
What is Paradise Lost?
This Arctic explorer rescues Victor and records his story in letters.
Who is Robert Walton
The young boy murdered by the Creature.
Who is William Frankenstein?
The Creature deeply desires this from humanity.
What is acceptance?
The year the novel was first published.
What is 1818?
The Creature asks Victor to create this for him.
What is a female companion?
Victor’s adopted sister and later wife.
👉 Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
The woman executed for William’s murder.
Who is Justine Moritz?
Victor neglects this responsibility after creating life.
What is parental responsibility?
The famous volcanic eruption that led to the “Year Without a Summer.”
What is Mount Tambora?
The Creature compares himself to this biblical figure who was cast out.
Who is Adam?
Victor’s loyal best friend who is strangled by the Creature.
Who is Henry Clerval
The location where Victor destroys the female creature.
What are the Orkney Islands?
The novel questions the consequences of playing this role.
What is God?
The Romantic movement emphasized this over reason.
What is emotion?
The Creature saves a girl from drowning but is rewarded with this.
What is being shot?
The family the Creature secretly observes while hiding in a cottage.
Who are the De Laceys?
The setting where Victor dies.
What is the Arctic?
Nature often represents this healing and restorative force.
What is comfort or peace?
Mary Shelley began writing the novel during a ghost story challenge with this poet.
Who is Lord Byron?
In the end, the Creature plans to do this to himself.
What is commit suicide?