Authorship
Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
How many people did the monster directly kill?
The monster directly killed 3 people: Henry, Elizabeth, and William
Where does Victor go to school?
Ingolstadt
Where is the Frankenstein family home?
Geneva
What does Victor do after creating the monster?
Take a nap
How old were they when they wrote it?
They were was 18 years old.
What is the color of the monster's skin?
Yellow
What happens in Victor's dream?
He kisses Elizabeth and she turns into his dead mother
How is Elizabeth related to Victor?
She is the daughter of his father's sister
Who is blamed for the murder of Henry?
Victor
What prompted them to write the story?
A writing competition with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron
How does the monster frame Justine for the killing of William?
He puts William's locket in Justine's pocket
How long did Victor spend making the first creature?
Over two years
What is the name of Victor's father?
Alphonse
Why was Safie with the DeLacey's?
To escape from her father and Turkey and to reunite with her lover, Felix
Who acted as an editor before the author submitted the book for publishing?
Percy Shelley
How did the monster learn to speak?
By watching the DeLacey family teach Safie and by reading Victor's journals
How does Victor first address the monster?
"Devil"
How does Victor's mother die
Scarlet fever
How does Victor die?
Of exhaustion
When and why did they revise Frankenstein?
1831, they revised to be in accordance with social pressure, changes in their philosophical worldview, and their personal grief of losing a husband and child
What books did the monster read?
John Milton's Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
What branch of natural philosophy did Victor take inspiration from?
Alchemy
What does Henry study in school?
Language, literature, and oriental studies
What is the order of all the important character deaths
Victor's mother, William, Justine, Henry, Elizabeth, Alphonse, Victor