Characters
The doomed protagonist of the novel who discovers the secrets of life and creates an intelligent but grotesque monster.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
a rapid pulsation, especially an abnormally rapid or irregular beating of the heart
What is palpitation?
Frankenstein's best friend.
Who is Henry Clerval?
Victor creates this in Chapter 5.
What is the Creature/ the Monster?
Captain Walton finds Victor Frankenstein here.
What is the arctic/ on the ice?
Victor's grotesque creation; intelligent and capable of speech but also enormous and massively strong.
Who is the Creature?
an established preference for something.
What is a predilection?
The weather event that makes Victor leave behind the Renaissance scientists and pursue Galvanism.
What is a lightning strike?
The person Victor meets while he is trying to escape the creature.
Who is Henry Clerval?
Victor is most disgusted with this aspect of the creature.
What are its eyes?
Adopted child of the Frankensteins; passionate and full of life, betrothed to Victor. [Extra 100 pts for correct last name]
Who is Elizabeth [Lavenza]
marked by forceful energy; powerful.
What is vehement?
While Victor is interested in science, Elizabeth is interested in this.
What is nature and poetry?
In his nightmare, Victor sees Elizabeth transform into a horrifying visage of this person.
Who is his dead mother?
A narrative structure where one story is told within another, creating a "story within a story" effect.
What is a frame story?
Arctic Seafarer who discovers Victor half frozen in the ice.
Who is Robert Walton?
a condition of weariness or debility; fatigue.
What is lassitude?
The name of the Frankensteins' home outside of Geneva should ring a "bell".
What is Belrive?
Clerval does not ask for repayment for taking care of Victor. Instead he requests this.
What is to write letters to Elizabeth and his father?
This professor at Ingolstadt encourages Victor to dedicate himself to revealing "the deepest mysteries of creation".
Who is M. Waldman?
Victor's father; marries his friend's daughter and has three children.
Who is Alphonse Frankenstein?
adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design; perversely persistent.
What is pertinacity?
The author of the book that gets Victor interested in science.
Who is Cornelius Agrippa?
A section of his poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is quoted while Victor is wandering "on a lonely road" away from his creation.
Who is Coleridge?
This is the red illness that Victor's mother dies from; Elizabeth passes it to her.
What is Scarlet Fever?