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Mini Lecture
Themes
Characters
Teacher's Choice
100
Where Robert Walton's ship is stuck.
What is the Arctic?
100
Was born 1797 to 1841, authored the book through a horror story writing contest with her husband.
Who is Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley?
100
linked to political power, access to education and justice throughout the novel.
What is the theme of "Social Class"?
100
Has black flowing hair and black lips.
Who is "the Creature"?
100
Victor considers doing this after Justine's death.
What is "committing suicide"?
200
Victor hopes to accomplish this with his scientific experiments.
What is "banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable from any but a violent death."
200
The period in which the book was written.
What is the Romantic period?
200
involving the ways in which viewpoint can shift meaning throughout the novel.
What is the theme of "perspective"
200
The best friend of Victor Frankenstein.
Who is Henry Clerval?
200
The Volume and Chapter that the Creature comes to life.
What is Volume 1, Chapter 4?
300
Stones and “other kinds of missile weapons.”
What are "items used by the villagers to attack the Creature"
300
The style in which the book is written.
What is Gothic Horror?
300
how as well as what one learns
What is the theme of "education"?
300
Accused of the cold-blooded murder of 4-yr old William.
Who is Justine Moritz?
300
Names that Victor called the creature when they meet after William's murder.
What is "Devil" "Daemon" or "vile insect"?
400
They believe a magical "good spirit" is helping them.
Who are the DeLaceys?
400
Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it, or sets up a story within the story.
What is a Frame Narrative?
400
the Creature in this edition is identified as "the Creature" because that is what he calls himself and he is given no other name; but he is constantly defined, especially by Victor, by other names.
What is the theme of "naming"?
400
Learns to speak the language of the DeLacey's, thereby giving the Creature an opportunity to learn to communicate.
Who is Safie?
400
Poem quoted multiple times throughout the story.
What is Samuel Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
500
What Victor does when the creature first comes to life.
What is "rushes from the room and collapses"?
500
Time period and place that this book influenced.
What is Victorian England?
500
a sense of not belonging, either to a community or to one's own sense of self
What is the theme of alienation?
500
Innocent and beautiful, she loves poetry and Victor.
Who is Elizabeth?
500
the book Felix DeLacey reads to his pupil to teach her manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.
What is Volney's "Ruins of Empires"?