Characters
This character narrates the story through letters to his sister.
Who is Captain Robert Walton?
The creature learns to do this while observing a family in a cottage.
What is read and write?
This character says, "Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed."
Who is the creature?
Victor goes to England to do this.
What is...
to talk to scientists about new scientific breakthroughs?
to buy time before marrying Elizabeth?
to secretly make a companion creature?
The creature gives Victor this warning after Victor destroys the female creature.
What is "I will be with you on your wedding night."?
This character comes to visit Victor when he is in jail.
Who is Alphonse Frankenstein, Victor's father?
The creature makes this demand of Victor.
What is to create a female creature to be his companion?
This character says, "Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition...I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed."
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
Victor listens to the creature's story because he feels this.
What is a sense of duty / compassion / curiosity?
Victor is arrested in Ireland because the villagers think he has done this.
What is murdered Henry?
This Frankenstein family member is the only one to survive the novel.
Who is Ernest Frankenstein?
The creature is rejected in these scenarios.
(Name at least THREE)
What is when the creature is...
-Rejected by Victor
-Rejected by old man in the cottage
-Rejected by the people in the town
-Rejected by the DeLacey's (cottage family)
-Shot by the little girl's father
-Rejected by William
This character says, "I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I must return."
Who is Robert Walton?
Victor decides not to create a second creature for these three reasons.
What is...?
1. She might already be evil
2. She might refuse to be the monster's wife
3. They might have children and create a race of monsters
This is Victor's last request of Captain Walton.
What is to kill the creature?
These characters live in the cottage that the creature spies on.
Who are the De Laceys?
(M. De Lacey, Agatha, Felix, and Safie)
The creature says he became evil because of this.
What is... Nobody loved him/everyone was cruel to him/he was alone?
This character says, "Answer me, I conjure you, by our mutual happiness, with simple truth--Do you not love another?"
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
Victor leaves Geneva forever for this reason.
What is everyone he loves (except Ernest) is dead and there is nothing left for him.
Explain how this novel is an example of a frame narrative.
Robert Walton writes Victor's story down in letters to his sister. Victor recounts the creature's story.
These characters are killed by the creature or their deaths are caused by the creature's actions.
(Six answers, you need five - covers entire book)
William
Justine
Alphonse (Victor's dad)
Henry
Elizabeth
Victor
The creature says his final fate will be to kill himself for this reason.
What is so that nobody else can create a creature like himself?
This character is described as "a being formed in the 'very poetry of nature.' His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination."
Who is Henry Clerval?
Victor gets to the Arctic where Captain Walton finds him by this method of travel.
What is by sled?
Explain one allusion (reference to another text) in the text.
What is...
- "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- Paradise Lost
- the myth of Prometheus
- "Mutability"
- "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey"
- the Bible