Author Background, etc...
How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein?
What is 18
Robert Walton is
What is an adventurer and sea captain
Where does Captain Walton find Victor Frankenstein?
What is on a piece of ice floating in the North Pole
Victor learns a lot of new ideas at college. While he is there he decides to create
a human
What is the Creature’s “reward” for saving a girl from drowning?
He is shot.
Captain Walton is the first narrator in Frankenstein. Who are the other two?
What is Victor and the Creature
Captain Walton's goal is to
What is find a new passage between the Atlantic and Pacific in the North Pole
Victor Frankenstein attends university in
Ingolstadt
Ultimately, Victor's schooling results in him becoming obsessed with
knowledge
Where does Victor listen to the Creature's story of himself and his demand upon Victor?
in a hut on a mountain glacier
Who is the first victim to be killed by the Creature?
William
The Frankenstein family home is located in
What is Geneva
After Victor's Creature comes alive, Victor looks at him and
is horrified and disgusted, runs away, disowns the Creature
Victor's greatest sin is
abandoning the Creature
How does Victor react to seeing Henry’s corpse (dead body)?
He falls into a long, feverish illness and has a nervous breakdown
What does the Creature want Victor to do?
create a female to be his companion
Henry Clerval is
Victor's best and childhood friend
How does the Creature learn to speak?
by listening to the cottagers (the blind old man, Felix, and Agatha)
What theme does this represent: Victor’s refusal to take responsibility for his creation leads to suffering and tragedy.
Responsibility and Guilt
Victor's not protecting his wife from the Creature on his wedding night could be because
thinks the Creature will kill him, not Elizabeth
True or False: Mary Shelley's parents were important influential people in the time in which they lived.
True
Elizabeth Lavenza is
the Frankenstein’s adopted daughter
Why is Justine accused of murdering William?
a picture of Frankenstein’s mother is found in her dress
What theme does this represent: The Creature’s development and behavior reflect the theme of how environment and treatment shape one's identity.
Nature vs. Nurture
At the end of Frankenstein, who says this: "But soon I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames"?
the Creature