Victor Frankenstein's Experiments
This city is where Victor attends university and begins creating the Creature.
What is Ingolstadt?
After being abandoned, the Creature first experiences fire and learns this unpleasant sensation.
What is pain or burning?
This young boy is the first person the Creature murders.
Who is William Frankenstein?
The Creature confronts Victor and tells his story here.
What is Montanvert or the glacier?
This is Victor’s home country.
What is Switzerland?
Victor brings the Creature to life using this method, never explicitly described in detail.
What is electricity or galvanism?
The Creature secretly observes and learns language from this rural family.
Who are the De Laceys?
The Creature plants a locket on this character, leading to her execution.
Who is Justine Moritz?
After Elizabeth's murder, Victor does this immediately.
What is searches for the Creature or faints?
Victor’s adopted sister and fiancée.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
Victor becomes obsessed with this branch of science before switching to natural philosophy.
What is alchemy?
This blind character shows the Creature his first moment of kindness
Who Delaceys
The Creature demands Victor create this for him.
What is a female companion?
Victor confesses his story to this character on a ship.
Who is Robert Walton?
Frankenstein explores this major theme by showing the dangers of unchecked scientific ambition.
What is the pursuit of knowledge or playing God?
After animating the Creature, Victor does this in horror.
What is runs away/abandons the Creature?
The Creature performs this act to help the De Lacey family, despite their fear of him.
What is gathering firewood/helping with chores?
Victor destroys the second creature in this remote place.
What is the Orkney Islands (or Scotland)?
Victor dies in this location, far from his home.
What is the Arctic (aboard Walton’s ship)?
The novel is structured using this literary format with letters and nested narratives.
What is a frame narrative or epistolary form?
Victor falls ill for several months after creating the Creature and is nursed back to health by this person.
Who is Henry Clerval?
When rejected by the De Laceys, the Creature reacts by doing this to their cottage.
What is burning it down?
The Creature takes this action after Victor destroys the female Creature.
What is vows revenge/kills Henry Clerval?
After Victor’s death, the Creature tells Walton he plans to do this.
What is kill himself or go into the Arctic to die?
The subtitle of Frankenstein references this mythological figure who defied the gods.
Who is Prometheus?