The Romantic Age was a reaction against this literary period.
What is Neoclassical or the Enlightenment?
100
Misunderstood by humanity; a miserable wretch
Who is the Creature?
100
The site where Victor created the Creature
What is Ingolstadt?
100
The illness that killed Victor's mother after she cared for the ailing Elizabeth
What is scarlet fever?
100
the author's use of details to make a work seem true to the reader
What is "verisimilitude"?
200
love of nature; emphasis on the emotional; focus on the individual; emphasis on the imagination...
What are some characteristics of Romanticism?
200
Nursed Victor through months of fever; interested in the tales of King Arthur and languages
Who is Henry Clerval?
200
The creature's main dwelling or place of shelter
What is the hovel (attached to the DeLaceys' cottage)?
200
Victor Frankenstein's feelings after the creation of the creature
What are horror and disgust?
200
a literary work written as a series of documents, usually letters
What is an epistolary?
300
Greek mythological figure who created man from clay and stole sacred fire from Zeus to give to man. As a punishment, he was strapped to a rock and a crow picked at his liver every day.
Who is Prometheus?
300
The creature's first victim
Who is William Frankenstein?
300
Location of the Frankenstein family home
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
300
the verdict at Victor's trial
What is innocent or not guilty?
Remember that he was on trial for the murder of Henry Clerval!
300
an overreacher; characterized by going beyond human limitations; daringly original, often to disastrous ends
What is "promethean"?
400
Mary Shelley's inspiration for writing the novel.
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What is a waking dream?
400
Innocent but pleaded guilty and executed for murder
Who is Justine Moritz?
400
The novel begins and ends here: H. Walton leads an exploration through these parts and V. Frankenstein pursued the creature here
What is the Arctic?
400
The Creature's sole request of Victor Frankenstein
What is a female companion or mate?
400
the natural state of man is noble and good, but society corrupts it and makes him evil
What is the theory of "noble savage"?
500
This man proposed writing ghost stories which led to the creation of Shelley's novel.
Who is Lord Byron?
500
Unknowingly taught the Creature to speak and read
Who is Felix DeLacey?
500
Victor Frankenstein went here to create the female creature
What is the Orkney Islands, Scotland?
500
The three narrators of the novel in the correct order that they were presented.
Who are Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature?
500
mysterious settings; an atmosphere of gloom and terror; elements of the supernatural; violent, macabre events...