Who's Who
Victor's first adopted sister and "plaything" was chosen by his mother.
Elizabeth Lavenza
"I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures know to few besides myself. I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature"
Victor Frankenstein
How long does Victor spend at Ingolstadt without seeing his family?
Two Years
Where does Victor get the "parts" that he needs?
Chernal Houses, Slaughter-Houses, Graveyards. (Pg. 30-33)
A narrative that surrounds and adds context to another story, or set of stories.
Frame Tale
Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein.
Caroline Frankenstein
Who arrives at Ingolstadt and helps Victor after Victor's "successful" creation experiment?
Henry Clerval
What does Victor do after he brings the Creature to life?
He runs to his bedroom and passes out. (Pg.35)
A building or vault in which corpses or bones are stacked -- a frequent hang out spot for aspiring necromancers and mad scientists.
A Charnel House
Best friend to Victor -- ethical, romantic, actor, and poet who seeks to attend school with Victor.
Henry Clerval
"Good God! In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?"
M. Krempe
Victor maintains his lab and assembles his Creature in...
A "Cell" Above His Apartment.
In Victor's dream, how does Elizabeth appear?
At first alive, then she changes into the worm-infested corpse of Victor's mother. (Pg. 35)
Author of Three Works on Occult Philosophy, and an early inspiration to Victor Frankenstein.
Cornelius Agrippa
The disagreeable professor who suggests Victor Frankenstein go back and begin his education again from square one.
M. Krempe
M. Waldman
What discovery causes Victor to stay at the university when he considers returning home?
He "succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life [and became] capable of bestowing animation on lifeless matter." (Pg. 31)
Victor had selected the pieces and chunks of matter that would make his Creature look....
Beautiful.
"I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -- Great God!" (Pg. 35)A work of fiction written in the form of letters, or other documents.
Epistolary Novel
The receptive professor who understands Victor's appreciation of the occult and other non-traditional sources of scientific and medical history.
M. Waldman
"For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother; and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion. He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable."
Robert Walton
How did Victor earn the respect and admiration of his professors and fellow students during the two years buried in his studies?
He "...made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments." (pg. 30)
What does the creature do as it reaches its hand out to Victor for the first time in his bedchamber?
"His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks [...] one hand was stretched out..." (Pg. 35)
The year in which the very first adaptation of Frankenstein was put to film.
1910