Name That Tune
The creature
What object ends up helping convict Justine of murder?
The miniature painting in a brooch.
True or false, Henry cannot go to college because his family is poor.
False. He doesn't go inorder to help his father with his business.
Which literary device is most evident here: "No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success."
Simile about a hurricane
Draw a specific and compelling comparison between Jane (JE) and Safie.
Both are cast out of homes
Both travel vast distances for love
Both feel like strangers among others
Who says, “Your arrival, my dear cousin... fills me with hope. You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine. Alas! who is safe, if she be convicted of crime?
Elizabeth defending Justine
Where did the De Lacey family originally come from?
France, and they were part of the aristocracy; it's interesting to contemplate why they weren't killed in the French Revolution.
False. She dies nursing Elizabeth.
Which device is most evident here: "The gentle breezes fanned my cheeks, and the murmur of the leaves consoled me.”
Personification
Draw a specific connection between Victor and Walter Younger
Both are brothers with powerful relationships to their sisters
Both hunger to travel
Both dream of idealized places
Who says, “Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.”
Victor's father, who is urging him not to read the alchemists.
Who was Mary Shelley's husband?
Percy Bysshe Shelley, a famous Romantic poet
True or false: Robert Walton is writing letters to his wife?
False. He is writing to his sister.
Which device is most evident here: “Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence.”
An allusion to biblical Adam
Draw a specific connection between Nora (ADH) and Caroline Frankenstein
Both have fathers who die when they're young, propelling them into relationships
Both are willing to sacrifice anything for their families.
Both marry older men
Who says, “I will not mention it, if it agitates you; but your father and cousin would be very happy if they received a letter from you in your own hand-writing. They hardly know how ill you have been, and are uneasy at your long silence.”
Henry Clerval attempting to cheer up Victor after his collapse.
Describe the painting that hangs in the front hall of the Frankenstein home.
It is a vivid portrait of Caroline draped over her father's coffin, mourning him.
True or false: Both Mary Shelley's grandmother and mother died in childbirth?
True
Given that Victor tells Robert Walton this at the beginning of the novel, what device is this statement?
“The fatal result of this discovery led me to avoid explanation.”
Foreshadowing
Draw a specific connection between the creature and Eleanor (THOHH).
Both hunger to belong to a group
Both are in search of a home
Both long to connect to others
Both are haunted by the feeling that they will never fit in.
Who says this: “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone."
The creature, after being wounded for saving the girl.
What prompts men to shoot the creature?
Ironically, for saving a girl from drowning.
True or false: Safie's mother was enslaved?
True, she was enslaved by the Turks, but was so beautiful that a man married her.
Irony.
Draw a connection between Victor and Hugh Crain
Both have a mad passion to create, Victor in science and Hugh through his bizarre, sick book.
Both are drawn to the macabre, sinister, evil side of things
Both seem unhinged by their creations
Both of their creations inflict harm in the world.