Frankenstein - Plot and Facts
This family teaches the Creature language, history, and moral feeling.
Who are the De Laceys?
What is a tavern/pothouse?
At the opening, the Chorus mainly fears this event.
What is Thomas Becket's return?
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
In Frankenstein, this force acts as a healing force for many characters in the novel.
What is nature?
This character is wrongly executed for William Frankenstein’s murder.
Who is Justine?
This character acts as Raskolnikov's moral counterweight.
Who is Sonya Marmeladov?
The First Tempter appeals to Thomas by offering this main thing.
What are friendship, nostalgia, or old times?
"Is it an accident that the day of the first martyr follows immediately the day of the Birth of Christ?"
Who is Thomas Becket
An act where one dies for glory, but not glory for oneself.
What is martyrdom?
Victor first becomes interested in natural philosophy after reading the works of this Renaissance thinker.
Who is Cornelius Agrippa or Agrippa?
This innocent character is killed because she unexpectedly enters the room.
Who is Lizaveta?
Thomas equates these two things in his introductory speech of Murder in the Cathedral.
What are acting and suffering?
If man is in fact not a scoundrel, in general that is, the whole human race, then the rest is all mere prejudice, instilled fear and there are no barriers, and that's just how it should be!
Who is Raskolnikov?
This text most clearly argues that individual suffering can lead to redemption.
What is Crime and Punishment?
This European landscape offers respite to Victor in times of emotional turmoil, and feeling weary after departing from here.
What is Geneva?
The options Svidrigailov gives himself after carefully considering his inner nature.
What are monster and victim?
The knights accuse Thomas Becket of stopping which specific royal ceremony?
What is the coronation of Henry the II's son?
DAILY DOUBLE ( The selecting team may wager points on this question up to 400 points)
I regard you as one of those men who could have their guts torn out, and would stand and look at his torturers with a smile.
Speaking to who?
Who is Porfiry Petrovich speaking to Raskolnikov?
T.S. Eliot comments on this theme through the temporal, divine, and symbols of wheels & fixed points.
What is time?
At the end of the novel, the Creature declares this final intention.
What is to end his own life?
The child whom Rodion asks to pray for him as a "Servant of God".
T.S. Eliot uses poetic verse to mimic this style of chant or rhythm.
What is liturgical?
Your repentance is now superfluous. If you had listened to the voice of conscience, and heeded the stings of remorse, before you had urged your diabolical vengence to this extremity, he would have yet lived.
Speaking to who?
Who is Robert Walton speaking to The Creature?
A predominant philosophy in 1860's Russia, the principle that it is always rational to act in ways that maximize your own self-interest, defining "rational" as what is best for you, not necessarily what is moral or altruistic.