Characters
This main character narrates most of the book.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This is the name of Victor's hometown.
What is Geneva?
Frankenstein is basically about a scientist who creates this.
What is a monster/creature?
Victor is extremely hard-working when he's working to create the monster, reflecting this them.
What is ambition?
This major symbol in the book makes both Victor and the monster feel happy and peaceful.
What is nature?
This character is killed by the monster shortly after marrying Victor.
Who is Elizabeth?
Robert Walton explores this ocean at the beginning of the book.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Victor describes this part of his life as "blissful" and happy.
What is his childhood?
The monster wants to punish Victor for abandoning him and making him hideous, reflecting this theme.
What is revenge?
This body part symbolizes judgement in the book, and this is best seen in the case of the old, blind man.
What are eyes?
This main character does NOT have a name in this book.
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
Victor goes to this college where he eventually creates the monster.
What is the University of Ingolstadt?
The death of this family member inspires Victor to study the "boundaries of life and death"
Who is Victor's mother?
The monster's exile from the De Lacey'c cottage reflects this theme.
What is isolation?
This character can be interpreted as a walking symbol of Victor Frankenstein's guilt.
Who is the monster?
This is name of Victor's other brother who is not strangled by the monster.
Who is Ernest?
This is the country where Victor begins working on his second monster (but never completes it).
What is Scotland?
The monster says he relates to the character of Lucifer in this favorite book of his.
What is Paradise Lost?
What is forbidden knowledge?
This thing symbolizes illumination, or gaining knowledge, in the book.
What is light/fire?
This is the name of Victor's father.
What is Alphonse?
This is the country where Henry Clerval's dead body is found.
What is Ireland?
What is the family graveyard?
Both Robert Walton and Victor sacrifice these things in their pursuit of ambition.
What is family/friendship?
This desolate setting symbolizes the lack of hope and Victor's destroyed ambitions at the end of the novel.
What is the Arctic Ocean?