Characters
Whom did Safie nurse when she got sick, but she still died?
Safie's attendant
Victor Frankenstein's mother dies from this illness.
Why does Victor go to jail?
He is accused of murdering his best friend, Henry Clerval.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein belongs to the literary genre that blends horror and romanticism. Which genre?
Gothic literature
"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel."
Creation
He is the explorer who rescues Victor and listens to his tragic story.
Robert Walton
Victor first encounters his Creature after this tragic event in his family
William's murder
Why didn't Safie's father approve of Felix?
Felix was a Christian and Safie's father is Muslim.
One common Gothic element in the novel is the presence of this kind of location.
Dark, eerie, abandoned, desolate, ruin, mysterious, isolated, trap, maze, old castles, dungeons
“Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a dæmon whose delight is in death and wretchedness? Begone! I am firm, and your words will only exasperate my rage.”
Victor
She is tragically killed on her wedding night.
Elizabeth Lavenza
How does the Creature feel after what he does to William?
He's happy that he is able to create despair for his creator just as Victor has created despair for him.
What big event happens in Victor's life after he is released from prison?
He marries Elizabeth.
Which two 18th Century Enlightenment beliefs do Romantics reject?
1. Reasoning is the most important human faculty.
2. The application of reasoning can explain the world.
“I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I must return."
Robert Walton
This blind man is the first person to show kindness to the Creature.
De Lacey
What is Victor's raction to the first murder suspect?
He is torn between revealing the secret he regrets and saving the person accused of murder.
What happens to the Creation after he talks to Robert?
He cremates himself, and his ashes are blown by the wind across the sea, and his spirit finally rests in peace.
Describe Victor Frankenstein's decay in his mental, emotional, and physical states.
from sanity to insanity,
from happiness to depression, guilt, rage
from health to exhaustion, illness, and death
“My children, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.”
Caroline
This British poet challenged his friends to write the scariest story, leading to the creation of Frankenstein.
Lord Byron
Describe the Creations's experience the day he is born and becomes aware of his senses and motor skills. Explain several events that he goes through and finds himself frustrated and feeling helpless.
He feels hunger. He feels cold. He feels scared. He doesn't know how to create a fire. He goes through these events that frustrate him and doesn't know what to do so he goes to sleep or sits and cries.
What does Robert Walton promise Victor to do, but doesn't carry it out?
In Chapter 24, as Victor lies dying, he makes Walton promise that if he ever encounters the Creature, he must seek vengeance and destroy him.
Walton, moved by Victor’s suffering and sense of justice, agrees. However, when the Creature appears aboard the ship after Victor’s death, Walton does not fulfill this promise. Instead, he listens to the Creature’s final speech of remorse and despair and allows him to leave.
Define foreboding and intense emotion in gothic literature? Give one example of each in Frankenstein.
intense emotions are extreme emotions, such as men raging or storming and women fainting from extreme fear; or getting ill and dying from anguish
e.g. Creation raging and burning down the De Lacey home. Robert Walton or the Creation expressing their loneliness.
De Lacey women fainting after seeing the Creation.
“I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.”
Creation