Victor
Who does Victor marry?
Who is Elizabeth?
Who did the Monster kill?
Who is Elizabeth?
Who is Elizabeth's husband?
Who is Victor?
“Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.”
Who is Justine?
Why does the Monster want revenge on Victor?
The Monster hates Frankenstein for abandoning him after his creation. The Monster is also angry with Frankenstein for making the Monster the only one of his kind.
Why does Victor create the Monster?
He creates the Monster so he can discover the secrets of “life and death,” create a “new species,” and learn how to “renew life.”
How did the Monster read and write?
The Monster learned to read and write by observing Felix De Lacey.
How does Elizabeth die?
The Monster kills her?
“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?”
Who is the Monster?
What does the Monster do at the end of the novel?
He floats away on a ice contraption.
Why do the townspeople accuse Victor Frankenstein of murdering Clerval?
The townspeople confront Frankenstein about Clerval’s murder because eyewitnesses claim that when they found Clerval’s body along the beach, they saw a boat in the water that matched Frankenstein’s.
How many people does the Monster kill?
3
How is Elizabeth described at the beginning the novel?
Elizabeth is an orphan child adopted by the Frankensteins. She becomes a devoted daughter, sister and eventually wife to Victor.
“I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as proof that your other duties are equally neglected.”
Who is Alphonse Frankenstein?
Why does Walton want to reach the North Pole?
To be the first person to set foot on the North Pole and perhaps discover a northern passage to the Pacific.
Why doesn't Victor create the Monster a companion?
Victor tells us that the reason he must destroy the female monster is that he does not want the “future ages” to “curse [him] as their pest” (174). He doesn't want his own “selfishness” of creating a companion for his first mistake to end up disturbing the peace of future generations.
Who does the Monster threaten and why?
Victor because he destroyed the female creation.
How does Elizabeth become part of the family?
Elizabeth is Victor's cousin, the daughter of Alphonse's sister. When Victor is four years old, Elizabeth's mother dies and Elizabeth is adopted into the Frankenstein family. Victor's mother decides at the moment of the adoption that Elizabeth and Victor should someday marry.
“Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
Who is the Monster?
Why does the Monster kill William?
William screams in horror upon seeing the Monster and then unwittingly reveals that he is a member of the Frankenstein family, the Monster becomes seized with rage and chokes William to death.
How does Victor create the monster in the lab?
Victor touched one of the legs with a scalpel, causing a current to flow through the leg making it jerk as if it were alive.
Why does the Monster not fit into society?
Victor created the creature to be ugly. This made it more obvious that the monster wasn't going to fit in. He also acted and looked different in human society.
Why is Elizabeth alone on her wedding night?
Frankenstein wants to protect Elizabeth.
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Who is Victor?
Why does Frankenstein remain quiet during Justine's trial?
Frankenstein realizes that Justine is not the killer and that the Monster is, but he is afraid to testify in court on her behalf for fear that he will be labeled “insane” and that no one will believe that such a monster could exist anyway.