The Letters
Who is writing the letters at the beginning of the novel and who are they being written to?
Robert Walton writes to his sister, Margaret Saville
Who is the second person directly murdered by Frankenstein?
Henry Clerval
What does Victor do after his creature is reanimated?
He is horrified. He retreats to his room and takes a nap. He has a nightmare. He leaves the building when his creature approaches him and smiles at him.
Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!
Victor Frankenstein
I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.
Creature
Why is Robert Walton going north on a ship?
To find the Northwest Passage (glory and fame)
What threat does the creature make after Victor destroys his mate?
"I will be with you on your wedding night"
Who does Victor tell about the creature (2 people)?
The Magistrate & Robert Walton
Do no despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate and deserted creature, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
Tell me, dearest Victor. Answer me, I conjure you, by our mutual happiness, with simple truth- Do you not love another?
Elizabeth
What warning does Victor give to Robert Walton?
Do no pursue knowledge at any cost. One man's obsession is not worth all of the lives that it can ruin. Listen to my story and give up your dream.
How does the creature frame Justine for William's murder?
He places the locket that William was wearing in her pocket while she was sleeping.
How does the DeLacey family react to the creature (2 things)?
1. The old man is initially kind to him.
2. Safie and Agatha are horrified and they scream. Felix hits the creature repeatedly and chases him from the cabin.
I do not fear to die. That pang is past. God raises my weaknesses, and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
Justine
I passed the night wretchedly. Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness. Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment.
Victor
Why is Walton angry with the creature when he speaks to him for the first time on the ship?
The creature expresses remorse over Victor's death which Walton thinks is all pretend. If the creature had really cared for Victor he wouldn't have acted as he did.
What action made Victor realize he had to kill the creature himself?
When the monster kills Elizabeth and/or when the magistrate refuses to help
Victor agrees to make the creature a companion on what conditions?
The creature will leave Europe and live in South American away from all of humankind.
The ancient teachers of this science promised impossibilities and performed nothing...But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope and crucible, have indeed performed miracles.
Professor Waldman (Victor's Chemistry Teacher)
Think you that the groans of Clerval were music to my ears? My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy.
The Creature
Why does the creature call Walton "the last of human kind whom these eyes will ever behold"?
The creature intends to kill himself after leaving Walton's ship now that Victor is dead.
What does the creature do at the conclusion of the novel?
Leaves the boat, floats away on the ice, intends to kill himself
Name two characteristics of Gothic Literature.
1. Mysterious Setting
2. Mystery and Suspense
3. Omens, Portents, and Visions
4. Supernatural Events
5. Overflow of Emotion
6. Damsel in Distress
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to by thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
The creature
Let me go! Monster! Ugly Wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces- You are an ogre!
William Frankenstein