Loneliness
Why does Victor's creation struggle with loneliness?
What is his appearance?
What character is overtaken by his ambition, and that ambition ends up leading to the ability for the rest of story to be the way it is?
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
What character's death does this quote refer to?
"Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son? I wish to prepare you for the woeful news, but I know it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings" (Shelley 77).
Who is William Frankenstein?
What quality of nature, in relation to Victor, does this quote reveal?
"I perceived that the fallen leaves had disappeared and that the young buds were shooting forth from the trees that shaded my window. It was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence" (Shelley 65)
What is the ability for nature to heal Victor?
What is the first consequence that comes from Victor leaving his creation by itself and not caring for it?
What is the death of William Frankenstein?
Why does Victor choose to be by himself?
"But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy"(Shelley 7)
What is that he has to keep his experiment to himself because others would call him crazy?
The final event that took place due to the long path of Victor's ambition.
What is Victor's death?
What character was called "Devil" or "Thing" in the novel?
Who is Frankenstein's creation?
What does the weather mean in this quote?
"It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I
soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased" (Shelley 82).
What is the terror that awaits for Victor after arriving back to Geneva?
Why was Justine the one convicted with murder instead of the real assailant?
What is Victor being a coward?
Why is Victor's creation the way he is?
"I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?" (Shelley 174).
What is Victor's negligence to his own creation?
What is being foreshadowed in this quote?
"My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative!" (Shelley 5).
What is the path that Victor also ends up following?
Who is the name of the character that was suspected of killing William in this quote?
"Indeed, who would credit that __ __(Character's name), who was so amiable, and fond of all the family, could suddenly become so capable of so frightful, so appalling a crime?’" (Shelley 87).
Who is Justine Moritz?
What is nature doing for Victor in this quote?
"A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy. The present season was indeed divine;..."(Shelley 76)."
What is working as an escape from reality?
Where does the problem mentioned in the quote stem from?
"But I was in reality very ill, and surely nothing but the unbounded and unremitting attentions of my friend could have restored me to life" (Shelley 64).
What is Victor's lack of selfcare whilst completing his goal?
"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine" (Shelley 7).
Why does Captain Walton feel this way despite being on a ship with many others?
What is his desire to have a true friend?
"Farewell, Walton! Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries" (Shelley 270).
Why does Victor now say to void ambition?
What is he learned from his mistakes when it was too late.
Who accompanied Victor on his mission to England?
Who is Henry Clerval?
What quality(s) of nature does this quote represent?
"I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge. These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings" (Shelley 115).
What is warmth and unwarranted hospitality?
What is the reason Victor is met with his creation in this quote?
"As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed" (Shelley 112).
What is Victor always running from his problems?What is Victor being a coward?
Why did Victor never say a thing about his experiment despite being close to some people?
"I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide to him" (Shelley 73).
What is that Victor struggles with social society?
What does this quote represent in regard to Victor's ambition?
"I do refuse it,’ I replied; ‘and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent.’ "(Shelley 174)
What is Victor's lost of ambition and regret of his creation?
Who says this, "You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous" (Shelley 7) ?
Who is Captain Robert Walton?
What does the quote represent about Victor at the end of the novel?
"It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves" (Shelley 199).
What is the emptiness of Victor's pursuit?
Why is the creation threatening Victor in this quote?
"You are in the wrong,’ replied the fiend; ‘and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you"
What is all the sorrow the creation experienced because of Victor abandoning him?