chapter 1
who is Elizabeth Lavenza
This character narrates the story in the opening letters of the novel.
Who is Robert Walton?
Victor departs for this city to attend university.
What is Ingolstadt?
Victor becomes obsessed with this goal.
What is creating life or reanimating dead tissue?
This major event happens at the start of Chapter 5.
what is the creature comes to life
Victor Frankenstein's Father
who is Alphonse Frankenstein
Victor becomes fascinated by this outdated alchemist after discovering one of his books.
Who is Cornelius Agrippa?
Victor delays his departure for university due to this event.
what is victors mothers illness and death
Victor begins to collect materials for his experiment from these places.
what are graveyards and slaughterhouses
Victor describes the creature's eyes as doing this.
What is opening; they are "dull yellow" and open when it breathes?
This character is Victor Frankenstein's childhood friend and later becomes his close companion at Ingolstadt.
Who is Henry Clerval?
Victor also reads works by these two other early scientists.
Who are Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus?
what is death
Victor isolates himself for this long while working on his project.
what is 2 years
After animating the creature, Victor reacts by doing this.
What is fleeing in horror
Victor's mother dies of this illness after caring for Elizabeth.
what is scarlet fever
A violent thunderstorm destroys this, inspiring Victor's fascination with natural forces.
what is an oak tree
Carolines final wish
for victor and Elizabeth to marry one day
Victor says this part of science “had become nearly my sole occupation.”
what is human anatomy
Victor runs into this friend upon leaving his lab.
Who is Henry Clerval?
how Elizabeth was presented to Victor by his mother
what is "a gift"
This scientific phenomenon during the storm captivates Victor and shows the power of nature.
what is electricity/ lightning
At Ingolstadt, Victor meets this professor who dismisses his previous studies as outdated nonsense.
Who is M. Krempe?
Victor hints at this mysterious "secret" he has discovered.
what is the secret of bringing life to what was previously dead
Victor falls into a long illness caused by this.
What is the shock and trauma of creating the creature?