This character is the oldest child of the Frankenstein family; creator of the Monster.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
100
The beginning and ending of Frankenstein are obviously structured as this mode of writing, although the entire book is made up of it.
What are letters?
100
This is the town that Victor Frankenstein grew up in.
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
100
This character is reanimated from parts of scavenged corpses, but becomes an intelligent being.
What is the Monster?
200
Frankenstein is an example of this type of plot, where one story acts to "set the stage" for a second, more emphasized story, or a series of other stories.
What is a frame plot?
200
Victor's adopted sister, whom he marries; she is killed on their wedding night by the Monster.
Who is Elizabeth?
200
When he was 15, this event led to Victor's fascination with electricity.
What is lightning hitting an oak tree, shattering it to tiny fragments?
200
At 17, just as Victor is leaving for university, this tragic event takes place, possibly leading to his fascination with reanimation of the dead.
What is the death of his mother, Caroline?
200
This character is killed as a young boy by the Monster, although the Monster's hope at first is to teach him to be his friend.
Who is William Frankenstein?
300
This literary device is defined as a reference to history, mythology, or a well-known religious book.
What is allusion?
300
This is Victor's best friend; he is also killed by the Monster, although Victor is accused of his murder.
Who is Henry Clerval?
300
Describe the Monster's appearance.
What is tall, with black, shiny hair; perfect, white teeth; yellow skin; straight, black lips?
300
This item allows the Monster to frame a servant of the Frankenstein family for the murder of their youngest son.
What is a pin with picture of Victor's mother on it?
300
This is the only surviving Frankenstein at the end of the book. He is the middle child.
Who is Ernest Frankenstein?
400
The importance of nature and the inclusion of history and mythology, not love and marriage, are included in this type of British literature.
What is Romantic literature?
400
An explorer to the Arctic who encounters both Frankenstein and his Monster; writes to his sister Margaret.
Who is Robert Walton?
400
The Monster promises to go to another country, avoid people, and be less sad if Victor gives his word to do this.
What is make him a wife?
400
Language, the most important thing that the Monster learns, is learned from this family.
Who are the De Laceys?
400
An adopted servant of the Frankenstein family, she is framed for murder by the Monster.
Who is Justine?
500
The author used this type of false, or pseudo-science, as an inspiration for the ideas of reanimation in the book. It involved applying electrical impulses to dead muscles to get them to twitch.
What is Galvanism?
500
The young man who chases the Monster from his family's home.
Who is Felix De Lacey?
500
Although he feels responsible for many deaths, this is the only murder that Victor is accused of.
What is the murder of Henry Clerval?
500
The author uses this literary technique while writing about a dream that Victor has, in which he sees Elizabeth looking beautiful, but then her appearance changes to a look like death with worms crawling all over.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A grumpy professor of Victor's at Ingolstadt who mocks his scientific learning thus far.