Characters
The Protagonist/ Tragic Hero
Victor Frankenstein
What is Frankenstein a "frame story?"
It contains a story within a story
"But I have a want ehich I have never yet been able to satisfy, the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret..."
Walton
Walton is obsessed with doing what in his career?
Reaching the North Pole
How does Victor respond to when he first sees his creation?
He runs away
Turkish exile embraced by the family in the cottage
Safie
What is a "hamartia"
A hamartia is a fatal flaw or crucial error that leads to a hero's downfall
"A new species would bless me as its creator and source..."
Victor
What is the Creature's reward for saving the young girl from drowning?
He is shot
Why does the Creature believe DeLacey will not judge him?
He is blind
Old Man who lives in the cottage
DeLacey
Name 2 Foils in Frankenstein
1. Victor and the Creature
2. Victor and Walton
"I will try in what manner I can relieve your wants... but my children are away... and ... it is hard for me to procure food"
DeLacey
How does the Creature learn to speak?
By listening to Felix teach Safie
What does the Creature do in a rage towards the DeLacey's?
Burns down their cottage
Nurses the protagonist back to health when he falls ill
Henry Clerval
What makes Victor a tragic hero? (3 answers)
He is important
He has a hamartia
He experiences a demise
"In other studies, you go so far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder."
Victor
Why are Felix, Agatha, and DeLacey so poor?
The French court took their fortune and banished them for helping Safie's father
Before the destruction of Creatchette, the Creture's existence was driven by which emotion?
Loneliness
The Creature's first victim
William
What is Victor's hamartia?
Ambition
Answer me, I conjure you, by our mutual happiness, with simple truth-- Do you love another?"
Elizabeth
Why does the Creature leave food and messages for Victor?
He wants Victor to live and suffer
Why doesn't Victor protect his wife on their wedding night?
He believes the Creature is only after him