Comprehension Quizzes
In what ways are Frankenstein and Walton similar?
-Men of "Science"
-Far away from their families
-Care deeply about their familiesWhere is Drue's office?
CLO 295
Name an example of foreshadowing that happens within the text. Provide a direct example or an in-text citation supporting it.
-The epigraph about Prometheus
-Frankenstein meeting Walton and warning him
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Where is Victor Frankenstein's family from?
Geneva
"I am by birth a Genevese"In what places did Frankenstein seek out subjects for his creation?
Cemeteries, charnel houses
What was PNW's original name?
Purdue Calumet
What books did the Creature read which taught him lessons about life?
Paradise Lost; Plutarch's Lives; The Sorrows of Werter
Does Drue have a doctorate?
No
Pick a specific moment in which Mary Shelley uses "eeriness" to move the plot of the novel forward. Be as specific as possible.
-Chapter 4 beginning
-Specifically describing the contents of Frankenstein's laboratory, and the creature itself, moves the story along.
Who is Frankenstein's wife? And how did he know her previously?
She is his cousin (1818 edition)
How does the Creature feel after observing the family?
"It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind."
What does CLO stand for?
Classroom Learning Office
How does Victor encounter the creature again?
In the mountains
Where is Drue from?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Like one who, on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turn'd round, walks on,
And turns no more his lead;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread"
This poem is included within the text of Frankenstein. What gothic literary device is this poem's inclusion an example of?
Intertextuality
Who is William? What happens to him?
Frankenstein's youngest brother
He is killed by the Creature
What kinds of things does the Creature do for other people?
Fetching firewood; cleared their path of snow
What is the oldest building on PNW's campus?
Why is Justine found guilty?
-Mini portrait is found near her with William's face on it and she confessed to it even though she did not do it
Does Drue have a master's degree? If so, where did she get it from?
Yes, from the University of Iowa
How do Frankenstein and the Creature represent an example of "bifurcated ideologies."
-The contradictory moral behavior of Frankenstein creating life and abandoning it;
-The Creature being able to murder but also being capable of being good etc.
"Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery ; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted revolved these circumstances in my mind, and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology."
What does this reveal about Frankenstein?
Frankenstein asking questions of life that he shouldn't
Cares about pushing boundaries
What language is the Creature speaking?
French
"'By your language, stranger, I suppose you are my countryman;––are you French?"
"'No; but I was educated by a French family, and understand that language only. I am now going to claim the protection of some friends, whom I sincerely love, and of whose favour I have some hopes.'"When did PNW become a residential campus?
2005
What is an epigraph? Include an example
a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?" -Paradise Lost
Which author does Drue paraphrase on her PNW directory page?
Toni Morrison
"For Freud, the uncanny derives its terror not from something external, alien, or unknown but––on the contrary––from something strangely familiar which defeats our efforts to separate ourselves from it."
Explain how the uncanny is at work in Frankenstein.
-The "ugliness" of the Creature
-Walton's feelings about Frankenstein
"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!––Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips."
Close read this paragraph, what does it establish about how Frankenstein views beauty?
-Seeing ugliness akin to not being worthy of being saved
-Would he have loved his creation if it fit his idea of "beautiful?"
-Bifurcated ideologies!
-Also IS the creature ugly??? There's some description to lovely hair and white teeth, etc
-Reference to being uncanny (he is an ALMOST human; which is why he is interesting/fascinating to look at
"I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. This being you must create."
What does this quote reveal about the Creature?
-Reveals the Creature's inner thoughts
-The Creature reckons with morality; ugliness; thinking/knowing themselves to be different than others
-Wanting/begging to have a real life/companion
-Reference actual moments within the text to support yourself: The Creature framing someone else for murder, the Creature murdering and understanding murder, the Creature resenting being created
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