Plot
This scientist creates the creature in the novel.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
Victor's fiancée and adopted sister.
Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?
Items Victor used to build the creature.
What are body parts?
"I ought to be thy Adam: but I am rather the fallen angel..."
Who is the creature?
"Frankenstien" was first published in this year.
What is 1818?
The creature first speaks to Victor on this mountain.
What is mount Blanc?
This sea captian listens to Victor's story.
Who is Robert Walton?
This event starts Victor's obsession with reanimation and life.
What is observing lightning/electrical energy?
This character says, "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Who is the creature?
This iconic poet was Mary Shelly's Husband.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelly?
Victor is attending university in this German city when he brings the creature to life.
What is Ingolstadt?
The creatures first victim.
Who is William Frankenstien?
Most significant knowledge discovery Victor makes at the university.
What is mastery over life and death/reanimation?
This character begins the novel writing, "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
Who is Robert Walton
This scientific concept, popular at the time, partly inspired the novel.
What is Galvanism/animal electricity?
Victor pursues the creature to this icy location in the novel's conclusion.
What is the Arctic?
This character is Victor's last surviving family member at the novel's end.
Who is Ernest Frankenstein?
Victor's main emotional experience after creating his creature.
What is despair/guilt?
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession, of events..."
Who is Victor Frankenstien?
This literary movement focused on emotion and nature, strongly influencing "Frankenstien."
What is Romanticism?
This tragic event leads Victor to pursue creating life.
What is the death of his mother, Caroline Beaufort?
The father who is deeply distraught by the deaths of his family members.
Who is Alphonse Frankenstien
The creature's transformation amazes Victor, representing this shift.
What is life from inanimate matter?
"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."
Who is Victor Frankenstien?
Mary Shelly and her friends were inspired to write ghosts stories during the "year without a summer" at this location.
What is Villa Diodati/Switzerland?