Who said this?
“This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months.”
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This is what first inspires Victor’s fascination with natural philosophy.
What is reading Cornelius Agrippa/alchemy texts?
The Creature learns to speak and read by observing this family.
Who are the De Laceys?
The tone when Victor describes the Creature coming to life is best described as ____.
What is horrified/terrified?
This narrative structure frames the entire novel.
What is the frame narrative / letters from Robert Walton?
“I am malicious because I am miserable.”
Who is the Creature?
Victor leaves home to attend this university.
What is the University of Ingolstadt?
The Creature saves this girl from drowning, only to be shot at afterward.
Who is the young girl by the river? (or a peasant girl)
The tone of the Creature’s story when he watches the De Laceys is ____.
What is longing/melancholic?
This is the reason Victor refuses to tell Walton the exact secret of creating life.
What is that the knowledge is too dangerous?
“I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.”
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
Victor’s obsession with creating life leads to this major consequence.
What is him abandoning the Creature? (or the Creature coming to life and escaping)
The Creature asks Victor to create this so he will no longer be lonely.
What is a female companion?
The tone when Victor learns William has been killed is ____.
What is grief-stricken/devastated?
This natural setting often appears when characters experience powerful emotional shifts.
What is sublime nature/the mountains/the Arctic?
“My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects.”
Who is the Creature?
This event delays Victor’s return home after creating the Creature.
What is his sickness/nervous fever?
Daily Double: These are the three reasons the Creature gives for becoming violent toward humans.
What is being rejected, abused, and abandoned?
The tone of the Creature’s confrontation with Victor in the mountains is ____.
What is desperate/pleading?
This is the main reason Victor agrees to listen to the Creature’s story instead of killing him immediately.
What is curiosity / sense of responsibility / sympathy?
“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.”
Who is Robert Walton?
Victor’s mother dies from this illness after caring for Elizabeth.
What is scarlet fever?
What promise does the Creature make if Victor builds him a mate?
What is that he will disappear from humanity forever?
Daily Double: When Victor fears the Creature will harm his loved ones, the tone shifts to ____.
What is paranoid/anxious?
Who is Mary Shelley