Characters
Who is the main character?
Victor Frankenstein.
Who is the narrator?
Robert Walton.
What is Victor's first reaction to his monster coming to life?
Where is the novel's setting?
Switzerland
What is the name of Frankenstein's monster?
He doesn't have one.
Who is Victor Frankenstein's best friend?
Henry Clerval
Who is the narrator writing this entire story to?
Captain Walton is writing this as a letter to his sister, Margaret, as a journal of the man he met (Victor Frankenstein)
Where did the Frankenstein's family move after William and Justine's death?
Geneva, Switzerland.
Aside from reading, he studied how bodies decomposed after death.
What does Frankenstein's monster look like?
An 8-foot-tall (2.4 m), hideously ugly creation, with translucent yellowish skin pulled so taut over the body that it "barely disguised the workings of the vessels and muscles underneath"; watery, glowing eyes, flowing black hair, black lips, and prominent white teeth.
Who is the family member Victor is closest to?
His sister, Elizabeth.
What is the reason Victor created the monster?
Victor wanted to create a new species by his own hands.
"... I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation."
How has Victor's character changed throughout the novel?
In the beginning, he was prideful and self-centered. After the destruction he has caused, he is depressed and disgusted with his own actions.
Why is Victor Frankenstein telling his story to Walton?
"Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me- let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!" (p.29)
How did the Victor bring Frankenstein's monster to life?
Through electric shock.
What happened to Victor's mother, Caroline?
When Elizabeth was sick with scarlet fever, their mother took care of her; the illness got Caroline sick, and she died from it.
How did Captain Walton meet Victor Frankenstein?
Walton's ship was sailing to the North Pole, when they saw a man stranded on the ice with his snow sled and only one dog.
What is Victor's biggest disappointment with his childhood?
He wishes his father had known enough about science to stop Victor from beginning his mad experiments (p.40).
How did Justine die?
(Bonus points if you know the other guilty party)
She was wrongfully accused of killing her younger sibling, William.
Where was Frankenstein's monster created?
(Bonus points if you know where he studied)
Victor's laboratory at the top of his dormitory in college.
BONUS POINTS: The University of Ingolstadt (in Bavaria, Germany).
Name all siblings in the Frankenstein family.
Victor, Elizabeth, Justine, William, Ernest
Eighteen years old
Who created Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley; the Frankensteins are human.
(Victor Frankenstein created the monster.)
What is the backstory to how Elizabeth joined the Frankenstein family?
Victor's mother was helping to bring food to a peasant family, and Elizabeth was the most beautiful in the family. The family told Elizabeth that she was the princess of a German king, and her mother had died during birth. They gave Elizabeth to Victor's mother to care for her.
What is the reason the monster killed William and framed Justine as the murderer?
He has been extremely lonely, and upset that Victor shunned him immediately. He made a deal that unless Victor talks to him and hears his story before choosing to hate him, he will ruin Victor's family and the entire town.