Characters
The first and last name of the student and scientist who creates life through assembling and electrocuting a human body
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
A contrast between expectation and reality
What is irony?
A 1990s action film in which scientists resurrect dinosaurs for a theme park, and some question whether power should be exercised just because something is possible
What is Jurassic Park?
Frankenstein's Motivation for Creating Life
What is power, glory, or loss?
Frankenstein's "cousin" or adopted sister, who he develops a romantic relationship with
Who is Elizabeth?
A field that examines moral and ethical issues in health and biology, including those that arise from advancing technology
What is bioethics?
A Titan who steals fire from the gods as a gift for the humans, his creation
Who is Prometheus?
A setting of the novel that is described as brutal and desolate, but is idealized because it offers the possibility of discovery and glory
What is the ice / North Pole?
Frankenstein's close friend, who attends university with him and nurses him to health after his illness
Henry
An object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings
What is a symbol?
A library of genetic material that scientists have created to preserve (and possibly resurrect) endangered or extinct animals, about which some scientists have raised ethical alarms
What is a frozen zoo?
An ironic response to the "birth" of Frankenstein's creature, who Frankenstein has spend ample time and effort constructing
What is repulsion? Or hatred? Or disgust?
The captain of a ship on a discovery voyage in the North Pole, in search of fame and glory
Who is Robert Walton?
An indirect or passing, but meaningful, reference to something outside of the text
What is an allusion?
An epic poem in which a sailor kills a bird for no reason, leading to serious unintended consequences for himself and his crew
What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
A storytelling technique that Shelley employs by having Frankenstein tell his life story to the ship captain
What is a frame tale or story?
A servant in the Frankenstein household who is convicted of the murder of William Frankenstein, the youngest child of the family
Who is Justine?
A literary movement that rejected the focus of the Enlightenment - reason and rationality - to explore imagination, beauty, freedom, and individuality
What is Romanticism?
The name of a king whose broken statue lies in a vast desert in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Romantic poem, illustrating the temporary nature of power
What is Ozymandias?
A symbol of illuminating ideas, destruction, and the power of nature, witnessed by Frankenstein as a teenager
What is lightning or fire?