Characters
This scientist creates the creature.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This is where Victor attends university and creates the monster.
What is Ingolstadt?
This natural element often reflects Victor’s emotions.
What is nature/the weather?
The novel uses this type of narrative structure.
What is a frame narrative?
He is created from these.
What are parts of dead bodies (or corpses)?
Victor’s closest childhood friend.
Who is Henry Clerval?
The creature learns to speak and read by watching this family.
Who are the De Laceys?
A symbol of dangerous and forbidden knowledge.
What is fire (or light)?
Comparing the creature to Adam or Satan is an example of this device.
What is allusion?
The creature’s greatest desire.
What is companionship/love/friendship?
Victor’s fiancée and adopted sister.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
The first person the creature kills.
Who is William Frankenstein?
The creature reads this book, which deepens his self-awareness.
What is Paradise Lost?
The weather often reflects characters’ emotions, showing this technique.
What is pathetic fallacy?
This emotion motivates the creature’s revenge.
What is rejection (or loneliness/hatred)?
This character is wrongly executed for William’s murder.
Who is Justine Moritz?
Victor agrees to create this for the creature but later destroys it.
What is a female companion/bride?
This motif represents the dangers of unchecked ambition.
What is overreaching or hubris?
Shelley’s use of letters and personal storytelling is called this.
What is epistolary form?
The creature’s physical appearance causes this reaction in people.
What is fear/horror/revulsion?
The narrator who rescues Victor in the Arctic.
Who is Robert Walton?
Victor dies in this remote location.
What is the Arctic (or aboard Walton’s ship)?
A recurring symbol for isolation in the novel.
What is the Arctic (or mountains, or nature)?
The use of “I” in telling the story classifies it as this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
He says he will do this after Victor’s death.
What is kill himself (or die by fire)?