Characters
Narrator of the story, writing letters to his sister.
Who is Robert Walton?
In 1813, Mary Godwin committed what scandalous act
What is running away with Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Robert Walton is hoping to travel to what ultimate destination?
What is the North Pole?
Young, blond, bule-eyed girl adopted by the Frankensteins.
Who is Elizabeth?
The name of the famous women's rights treatise written by Mary Shelley's mother.
What is A Vindication of the Rights of Women?
Where was Victor born?
What is Naples?
The reason the "stranger" on the dogsled was on the ice.
What is because he was chasing some creature that fled from him?
Victor's father's best friend and the father of Victor's mother.
Who is Beaufort?
Mary Shelley stated that "invention does not come out of ____________"
What is nothing?
In chapter 1, we learn that his mother and father travel to Italy in order to ____________.
What is restore his mother's health?
What literary work is Walton referencing when he tells his sister that he shall "slay no albatross"?
What is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
Victor's best friend and his character foil.
Who is Henry Clerval?
Mary Shelley's mother's name.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Victor notes in the retelling of how his parents met and married that his father was much _____________ than his mother.
What is older?
What is the story the captain on the ship told Walton?
What is that he was in love with a girl, she loved another poor man, he gave up his fortune to the girl so she could be happy and marry him.
The first name of Victor's mother.
Subtitle Mary Shelley gave to her book
What is "The Modern Prometheus"?
When his parents present Elizabeth to Victor what do they say she is?
What is a "pretty present"?
Reason Walton's affection for the stranger increases everyday.
What is because he is good-looking, intelligent and very similar to Walton?