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He is Victor's oldest brother.
Who is Ernest?
The place where Victor and Elizabeth grew up.
Where is Geneva, Switzerland?
The Monster's discovery of fire references this myth.
What is Prometheus?
"The wretch saw me destroy the monster on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew."
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
Victor identifies the monster's victims by this physical marking.
What is bruises on the neck?
He burns down the De Lacey's cottage.
Who is the monster?
The place where Victor made the monster.
Shelley was heavily influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote this poem about an old man and an albatross.
What is Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
"If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends."
Who is the monster?
Justine is wrongfully convicted of his murder.
She spends her childhood in Milan.
Who is Elizabeth?
The monster claims that he and the female monster will travel to this place.
Where is South America?
Victor's sense of melancholoy and grandiose ambitions represent this philosophical movement.
What is Romanticism?
"I am blind and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your words which persuades me that you are sincere."
Who is De Lacey?
This person is the monster's third direct victim.
Who is Elizabeth?
Victor forms a connection with this professor at university.
Who is M. Waldman?
Elizabeth inherits a villa on this Italian lake.
What is Lake Como?
Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley visited this renowned British poet, whose challenge inspired Mary to write Frankenstein.
Who is Lord Byron?
"You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?"
Who is Robert Walton?
This person dies of grief after Elizabeth's murder.
Who is Alphonse Frankenstein?
She dies of scarlet fever early in the novel.
Who is Caroline, Victor's mother?
Victor was in his laboratory on this Scottish archipelago when Clerval was killed.
What is the Orkney Islands?
The monster learns about society by listening to Felix read important books, including this John Milton story of Adam and Eve.
What is Paradise Lost?
"I am well acquainted with the accused. I have lived in the same house with her, at one time for five and at another for nearly two years."
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
Victor is convicted of Henry's murder after washing ashore in this country.
What is Ireland?