Ch. 1-10
What does Victor spend day and night working on at Ingolstadt?
The creature
How does the creature learn to speak and read in French?
He changes from a naive man fascinated by science into a revenge-driven man who is determined to destroy his creation.
Victor Frankenstein
An artistic and literary movement that was a reaction to the Enlightenment.
Romanticism
Who write the novel Franknestein?
Mary Shelley
What is Victor's first reaction when he sees the creature alive for the first time?
He is frightened by the creature and runs away.
Why does Victor decide to make a second creature?
The creature persuades Victor to make him a female companion.
His death marks the first murder in the novel.
William Frankenstein
Romanticism or Gothic?
beauty and purity of nature
Romanticism
What does the creature promise to do if Victor makes the lady creature he has requested for.
The creature promises to leave for South America and never make contact with another human again.
Justine murdered William because she was in love with his father.
FALSE. Justine did not murder William, she was framed!
Whom do the authorities in Ireland when Henry Clerval is found dead?
Victor Frankenstein
She gets executed for a crime that she did not commit.
Justine Moritz
True or False: Romanticism focuses on romantic love stories?
FALSE: It's all about self-expression through imagination.
True/False: Gothic literature explores the dark side of human nature.
True
He plans to find and kill the creature.
What were the concerns that Victor had about a lady creature that prevented him from finishing his work?
Victor was afraid that she wouldn't like the creature and reject him. He also thought that she might not want to live in isolation in South America forever. Additionally, he feared that they would reproduce and destroy mankind.
True or False: Ernest Frankenstein is DEAD by the end of the novel.
FALSE: Ernest is Victor's younger brother... the one that survives.
Which of the following is NOT a typical Gothic setting?
1. a dark forest
2. a wedding reception
3. a graveyard
4. a castle
a wedding reception
What literary device does this passage represent?
"The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home."
Simile
When Victor meets the creature and tells him to go away and the creature refuses, what does the creature ask of Victor?
As an ultimate act of revenge toward Victor, what does the creature do? Why?
The creature decides to murder Elizabeth, so that Victor can feel the pain of living without a companion just like himself.
The Arctic seafarer to whom Victor is relating his story.
Robert Walton
True or False: sunshine, rainbows, and puffy clouds are typical weather conditions in Gothic literature.
FALSE: rain, clouds, fog, and snow
What does MLA in-text citation include in parentheses when the author's name is not mentioned in the text?
1. (Shelley 29).
2. (Shelley, 29).
3. (Shelley, p.29).
1. (Shelley 29).