Characters & Quotes
Main character of the frame/outer story
Who is Captain Walton?
What happens when Frankenstein's monster opens his eyes?
What is Victor runs away in horror at his creation?
This character’s calm rationality and domestic happiness serve as a foil to Victor’s obsessive ambition, highlighting what Victor forfeits in pursuit of knowledge.
Who is Henry Clerval?
What is the importance of Shelley including the Creature's narrative in the frame narrative?
What is it's the literal "center" of the novel - highlighting how everything revolves around the Creature/abuse of power to provide an alternative perspective to humanize the Creature?
You are probably familiar with the word wretched. In this section, Justine refers to herself as a “wretch,” and Frankenstein calls the Creature a “wretch” several times throughout Volume One. Which character is truly a wretch: Justine, the Creature, or Frankenstein?
Who is...with strong textual support.
Victor Frankenstein's more than sister
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
How does Victor meet Robert Walton?
In Frankenstein, this symbol represents both the promise and peril of Enlightenment science; Victor recalls it as “the spark” that awakened his interest in natural philosophy.
What is lightning/electricity (the spark of scientific discovery)?
What makes Safie and the Creature foil characters?
What is both Safie and the Creature look different from the other characters, neither can speak the language, and both want to fit in. However, the Creature knows the language, and he is rejected, whereas Safie, does not know the language and is accepted.
Which character got the blame for William's murder and was later executed, despite being innocent of the crime? And why were they suspected?
Who is Justine? What is the family jewelry (locket) & picture of Victor's mother?
Who said this quote: "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!"
Who is the monster?
What happens when Frankenstein's monster meets the old man and his family?
What is he learns about love, history, and language?
The Creature’s self-education leads him to compare himself to this character from Paradise Lost, symbolizing his belief that he has been cast out by his creator.
Who is Satan?
The Creature says the following: "For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow... when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing" (107). What is ironic about this statement?
What is the Creature eventually ends up murdering William and seems to have no issue with threatening to murder the rest of Victor's family?
Which character nurses Frankenstein back to health after the monster initially runs off?
Who is Clerval?
Who said this quote: "I have no friend...when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of my success."
Who is Captain Robert Walton?
Nature helps Frankestein---
What is restore his health?
The Creature learns empathy and language by secretly observing this family, who serve as a recurring motif illustrating the human need for connection.
Who are the De Laceys?
What four things does the Creature become aware that he does NOT have?
What is friends/family (love), money, knowledge, property.
Frankenstein could be considered which genres (name at least two)--
Romanticism, gothic, sci-fi
Who said this quote: "Have you really spent your time on such nonsense?"
Who is M. Krempe?
What two main forces does Victor place blame on for the events that happen in the novel?
What is Victor's father (mocking his ambitions) and destiny/fate?
The Arctic setting that frames the novel symbolizes this thematic idea, reflected in Victor’s final pursuit of the Creature.
What is the isolation and desolation caused by obsession?
Why would Victor allude to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" immediately after finishing his Creation?
What is this allusion is included to represent Victor's fear and loneliness after finishing his all-consuming Creation. Much like the Mariner, Victor is scared of what is to come.
What does the Creature's discovery of fire represent?
What is the fire highlights the Creature's passage into civilization, from this point on he becomes an (isolated) member of society. It also has connections w/ the Prometheus Myth.