Citing Evidence
This specific action by Victor shows his obsession with creating life.
Isolating himself for months collecting parts and studying day and night?
Neglecting his family and health to finish the experiment?
This theme is illustrated by Victor’s decision to create life.
What is the danger of unchecked ambition?
What is responsibility for one’s creations?
This inciting incident sets the central conflict in motion.
What is the creature’s animation?
The lab setting and stormy weather create this mood during the animation scene.
What is ominous / foreboding / tense?
This is the overall narrative structure of Frankenstein.
What is a frame narrative structure?
This detail shows the creature longs for companionship.
What is asking Victor to make a companion?
What is watching the De Lacey family and wishing to belong?
In one to two sentences, this summarizes the creature’s experience after learning language.
What is he learns from the De Laceys, becomes more self-aware, and feels deeper rejection?
This is how William’s murder changes Victor’s motivations.
What is he shifts from creator to pursuer, consumed by fear and revenge?
Grimly’s dark palette and heavy shading affect tone in this way.
What is they create a gloomy, macabre tone?
Shifting to the creature’s first-person story affects interpretation in this way.
What is it increases empathy and complicates earlier judgments?
This reaction is common when people first see the creature.
What is they scream, flee, or attack him on sight?
What is Victor runs away immediately after animating him?
This theme is most developed through the De Lacey cottage subplot.
What is isolation vs. the need for community?
What is appearance vs. reality / prejudice?
These two key events show the creature’s development from naïve to vengeful.
What is rejection by Victor and society; saving someone but being attacked; and Victor refusing a companion?
This figurative technique applied to nature heightens dread and mirrors emotion.
What is pathetic fallacy—storms mirror inner turmoil, amplifying dread?
Walton’s letters to his sister play this role in the structure.
What is they frame the tale and create parallels with ambition?
This evidence shows Victor’s guilt after Justine’s execution.
What is he blames himself and cannot find peace?
What is he considers confessing but remains silent?
The frame narrative with Walton supports this theme.
What is a warning about dangerous ambition?
This cause-and-effect chain follows Victor destroying the female companion.
What is the creature vows revenge, leading to Clerval’s death and the wedding‑night tragedy?
A spread with distorted angles has this effect on readers.
What is it creates unease and highlights power imbalance or otherness?
Flashbacks impact pacing and tension in this way.
What is they supply backstory while delaying outcomes, building suspense?
Two pieces of evidence suggest whether Victor truly learns from his mistakes by the end.
What is he warns Walton about ambition yet still pursues revenge into the Arctic?
What is he shows self-awareness but cannot break the cycle of obsession?
State a theme and cite the scene that best develops it—with justification.
What is (student choice of theme) supported by (specific scene/panels) because (reasoned justification)?
Walton’s letters cause readers to view Victor in this way.
What is tragic and cautionary, shaping our judgment of his ambition?
Labeling the being as “monster” vs. “creature” shapes sympathy in this way.
What is ‘monster’ dehumanizes, while ‘creature’ invites nuance and empathy?
In a graphic adaptation, panel gutters influence time and causality in this way.
What is readers infer events between panels, which controls pacing and cause‑effect links?