Walton
Creation
Death and Destruction
Victor
Literature
100
To discover the Source of Magnetism
Why is Robert Walton adventuring into the frozen north?
100
Large parts made the delicate operation much easier and faster to perform.
Why does Victor choose to make the creation from large body parts?
100
Elizabeth feels the most responsible.
Who feels most responsible for William's murder?
100
To slay the creation when he sees it.
What does Victor ask Walton to do for him?
100
Epistolary
What is a story that is told in exchange of letters?
200
Isolation from a close friend.
What hardship from Walton's journey impacted him the most?
200
Inarticulate sounds, hands outstretched towards Victor, a grin flashed at Victor.
What are the creature's initial behavior on its day of creation that parallel the actions of an infant?
200
Victor knows that no one will believe his story.
Why does Victor not reveal what he knows of William's true murderer?
200
It mirrors the way the creature has been forced to live.
What is ironic about the way Victor lives his life in pursuit of the creature?
200
Existentialism
What Romantic idea is discussed when the creation states, "What am I?" and "Who am I?"
300
The same dangerous obsession for science in Walton's eye.
What causes Victor to reveal his story to Walton?
300
Adam
What character from the "Bible" and "Paradise Lost" does the creation most identify itself with?
300
He admired her beauty, but realized he would never receive attention from a female creature.
Why did the creation frame Justine for William's murder?
300
Ending his own life.
What does Victor contemplate when on a lake in Belrive.
300
Stock Characters
What are characters unique to a specific genre?
400
Robert Walton
Who says, "I am going to unexplored regions, to 'the land of mist and sorrow;' but I shall kill o albatross, therefore do not be alarmed for my safety."
400
What human is being referenced in this quote from text, which was omitted from the movie, and demonstrates what the creation could have done to the human who attacked him, but instead chose to show restraint. "I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion renders the antelope," the creation said.
Felix DeLacy
400
The female may hate the original creation, the female may harm humans, the creature and female may procreate and plague mankind.
What objections does Victor give for destroying the female creature?
400
"Before I come on board your vessel, will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?"
What does Victor ask prior to boarding Walton's ship?
400
Walton's adventure and eventual return from the frozen north.
What is the outside frame of this text?
500
Victor never tells him, knowing that such knowledge will lead to Walton's ruin.
How does Victor respond to Walton's request to share his secret about how he created life?
500
To whom is this quote directed, "I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that which I regard myself."
Who is Robert Walton?
500
William mentioned that his father's name was Frankenstein.
What prompted the creature's murder of William?
500
The creation
What was the accomplishment in this quote by Victor Frankenstein, that opens chapter 5, "It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishments of my toils."
500
Strangulation
What is the motif Mary Shelly uses to demonstrate her feelings regarding social standards of the time?
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