Characters
This is Elizabeth's relation to Victor.
What is, she is his cousin (his father's sister's daughter) and eventual wife?
This quote describes which scene: "It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye..." Ch. 4
What is the moment Victor gives his creature life?
Walton's obsession
What is reaching the North Pole?
Victor first has a conversation with his creature in this place.
Where is a hut on a glacier near Montanvert
A fear that humans will revert or have already begun to revert toward their evolutionary ancestors.
What is atavism?
The creature wants Victor to do this to heal its loneliness.
What is create a female monster to be his companion?
The following lines are spoken by: "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." Ch. 3
Who is Victor?
The ingredients Victor used to create his creature.
What are dead animal and (mainly) human body parts?
The place Walton meets Victor
Where is on the Arctic Ocean, near the North Pole
A story within which the main story is being told.
What is a frame narrative?
Victor's mother dies this way.
What is she catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth and dies of it?
This character spoke the following: "I am malicious because I am miserable; am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?" Volume II, Ch. 9
Who is Frankenstein's creature?
The reason Victor leaves Elizabeth alone on their wedding night
Why is, he thought the creature wanted to kill him, instead of Elizabeth?
Victor is from here
Where is Geneva?
The storm Victor encounters outside Geneva when he's returning for William's funeral, for instance.
What is the sublime?
This character takes care of Victor when he falls ill after creating the creature.
Who is Henry Clerval?
This character spoke the following: "Something whispers to me not to depend too much on the prospect that is opened before us; but I will not listen to such a sinister voice. Observe how fast we move along, and how the clouds which sometimes obscure, and sometimes rise above the dome of Mont Blânc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting." Volume III, ch. 5
Who is Elizabeth?
The way the creature helped DeLacey's family.
What is collecting wood?
The time period that the story takes place in
When is the Eighteenth century?
The aesthetic present when Victor describes his lovely bride-to-be, Elizabeth.
What is beauty?
This character confesses to a crime he/she never committed.
Bonus (200 points!): This is why he/she confesses.
Who is Justine?
Why is the confessor (priest) threatened her with "excommunication and hell fire in my last moments" if she did not confess?
This person spoke the following: "How sweet is the affection of others to such a wretch as I am! It removes more than half my misfortune; and I feel as if I could die in peace, now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin." Ch. 8
Who is Justine?
One book the creature first read
What is either, Paradise Lost; Sorrows of Werter; Plutarch's Lives
Victor and Henry went to school here.
Where is Ingolstadt?
The way Victor's creature looked human enough to remind others what it was supposed to be, but so inhuman that it produced terror.
Bonus (200 points):This is the Essential Question of our Gothic Literature unit.
What is the uncanny?
Bonus: How does literature reflect the existential fears of a society?