Background
What age was Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein?
19.
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
John Milton
What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?
Captain Walton
'Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through. '
Liminal, Death and Decay, Taboo
Who is Ernest?
Frankenstein's brother, a soldier.
Name 3 countries in Frankenstein.
Switzerland, France, England, Scotland, North Pole.
Who was Shelley's Mother and What was she famous for?
Mary Wollstonecraft. Vindication of the Rights of Women.
'Clervel called forth the better feelings of my heart'
Frankenstein
' No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. '
Supernatural, horror, grotesque
How does Victor 'destroy all [the monster's] hopes of happiness?
Kills the female monster.
What event inspired the story of Frankenstein?
Story-telling competition.
Who created the theory of the 'id'.
Sigmund Freud
'I will try in what manner I can to relieve your wants'
Old Delacy
' I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. '
Mad scientist, Blasphemy, Grotesque, Death and Decay
What colour is the monster?
Yellow
What important intellectual event was happening when Frankenstein was written?
Scientific Revolution, Darwinsim
Whose experiments with frogs inspired Victor (and Shelley).
Luigi Galvani
But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.
Caroline
' Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light! '
Blasphemy, Horror
Where does Victor go to build his laboratory?
Scotland
When is Frankenstein set?
18th Century
'The Gothic deals in _____ desires, in what is ______ by society'
-David Punter
Illicit, Prohibited
“really spent your time in studying such nonsense?”
M. Krempe
' Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter. '
Death and Decay, Pathetic fallacy
Where does Saphie come from?
Turkey