Important Characters
Blamed for Victor's little brother William's murder, later hanged in a barn
Who is Justine Moritz?
Victor's mom Caroline feels like William's death is her fault because she gave William the locket before he died. Victor and Elizabeth are in denial and don't want to believe he is gone and look to see if he is back home. After they don't find William Elizabeth starts breaking down crying. Henry and Victor go for a walk to Geneva to clear their minds.
How does Victor, Elizabeth, and Victor's mother feel after finding out William was murdered?
After being created and feeling a burning hatred towards Victor and humankind after being rejected and treated like an emotionless and ugly monster. The fiend swears an eternal revenge to Victor Frankenstein and starts killing anyone close to him.
How is the theme revenge portrayed in Frankenstein?
"Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy-- to him towards whom I have sworn my eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim" (Frankenstein Pg.171, Shelly).
What quote shows revenge in Frankenstein?
Victor was inspired by the idea of possibly accomplishing somthing great like creating a new species from dead body parts.
What inspires Victor Frankenstein to make the monster/wretch?
Victor Frankenstein's creation
Who is the fiend/the wretch?
The fiend feels an eternal hatred and need for revenge against Victor and human kind after feeling like he left him with no emotions but misery and pain and every time they reject him as a friend or companion, calling him a hideous monster or wretch. This leads to the wretch letting his emotions get the best of him, killing William, Henry and Elizabeth.
What does the monster/fiend/wretch feel towards Victor and mankind? How does it lead to his later actions?
Victor's mother Caroline takes Victor's cousin Elizabeth in after her parents die leaving her in orphan. Victor's mom takes cars and nurses Elizabeth to health, making her catch Scarlett fever and eventually dying
How is the theme family portrayed in Frankenstein?
"On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best women did not desert her. She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself. 'My children', she said 'my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union."(Frankenstein Pg 39-40, Shelly).
What quote shows family is portrayed in Frankenstein?
The fiend sees William running into the fields he is resting in, the fiend wants to educate William about he being his friend. The fiend grabs William, then William starts crying and screaming let me go! Ugly Wretch! Let me go or I will tell my papa. The fiend tells William he will never see his father again and that he must come with him. William tells the fiend who his father is. The fiend hearing William's father is Frankenstein strangles and kills William. The police finds the missing locket that William's mom gave him before he went missing in Justine's pocket when she was sleeping, Justine was accused of Williams murder and later executed by hanging in a barn.
What happened the night of William's murder?
The sailor who writes to his sister in letters who meets Victor Frankenstein
Who is Robert Walton
Victor was in a state of sorrow from his mother's death where decided to postpone him going to Ingolstadt University for a little bit. Elizabeth felt like she was responible for giving Victor's mom Scarlett fever eventually causing her to die and for Elizabeth and Victor to lose a mother figure.
How does Elizabeth and Victor feel after their mother died?
Victor pushed through the pain and anxiety he was feeling and completed his strong desire to create the monster
How is the theme ambition portrayed in Frankenstein?
"It was on a dreary night of November I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me in the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes,and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs." (Frankenstein pg.58, Shelly).
What quote shows ambition is portrayed in Frankenstein?
Victor thought it was a bad idea after seeing his first creation and the terrifying possibilities of what he could do. Victor throws them overboard the sip he is on and into the sea
How and why did Victor destroy the female monster?
Childhood best friend of Victor Frankenstein who is a doctor, his father didn't let him to college with Victor Frankenstein
Who is Henry Clerval?
Victor is completely heartbroken and besides himself and decides to sail back to Switzerland
How does Victor feel after finding out his best friend Henry Clerval was murdered?
Victor builds the monster and keeps it a secret leading to the demise/death of his close family and friends
How is the theme secrecy portrayed in Frankenstein?
"I then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive and walking about. I dreaded to behold this monster, but I feared still more that Henry should see him"(Frankenstein Pg.63, Shelly).
what quote shows secracy is portrayed in Frankenstein?
He is strangled to death by the monster in Ireland as a result of the monster being mad that Frankenstein didn't keep promise of building him a female friend/companion.
What happened to Henry Cleveral?
Victor's adoptive sister, cousin, lover, soon to be wife
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
He feels regret seeing as revenge did make him feel better but instead left him feeling empty inside. He tells Walton the only way I find peace is in death and goes the middle island on time of the pyre rocks and seats himself on fire.
How does the monster feel near the end of the book when he realizes his actions of killing William, Elizabeth, and Henry Clerval? What does he do after?
Everyone who sees the monster/wretch has a disgusted look on their face, calls him a hideous monster, hits him with a stick, screams at him, or shoots him for trying to help a girl from drowning
How is the theme monstrosity portrayed in Frankenstein?
"Hideous Monster! Let me go. My papa is a Syndic- he is M. Frankenstein--he will punish you. You don't dare keep me'' (Frankenstein pg.171, Shelly).
What quote shows monstrosity portrayed in Frankenstein?
Victor dies from injuries and illines after chasing after the monster in the icy arctic.
What happens to Victor at the end of the book?