Frankenstein key moment locations

what chapter/s does frankenstein create the creature

4/5

what chapter does frankenstein contemplate suicide

9

what chapter is the creature in the forest

11

what chapter is the creature rejected from the Delaceys/the village

16

what chapter does the creature ask for a companion

17

what chapter does victor start making the companion

18

what happens in the last chapter

Victor dies and FM rides away talking about self destruction

what are the key themes

• nature

• feminism

• romanticism

what does the creature act as a symbol of

• the carelessness of science

• a product of societal rejection

• a loss of innocence

what does Victor usurp

the divine rights of God

what does victor say he will do to nature

“take her to her hiding places”

“penetrate nature”

what distorts emotions towards characters due to lack of reliability

the narrative structure

The creature says he is “alone and miserable…

man will not associate with me”

The creature feels he “ought to be thy Adam” but is “rather the…"

fallen angel”

the creature says he is a “lonely and…

miserable wretch”

what did victor “work hard for nearly two years for…

the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body"

what does victor tell walton to “learn from [him]…

“how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge”

what did Victor describe “the wretch” as

“the miserable monster whom [he] had created”

what does the creature ask - if he is “shunned and…

hated by all mankind?”

what did victor desire to learn “the secrets of…

heaven and earth”

what does the creature tell victor to “make [him]” by making him a companion

“happy, and [he] shall again be virtuous"

why did the creature say he was “malicious…

because [he] is miserable”

what does the monster say he will do “If [he] cannot inspire love…

“he will cause fear”

what does the creature describe himself as

“I, the abandoned am an abortion”

What had Victor “seemed to have lost…

all sensation but for this one pursuit”

how did the villagers react to seeing the monster

“the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted”

how did victor say the sublime brought him

“ the greatest consolation that [he] was capable of receiving”

what did the monsters “yellow skin scarcely cover

the muscles and arteries beneath”

what does the forest serve as a symbol of

discovery for the creature

• “I sat down and wept” - he realised he might forever be alone

what does the creature’s forest fire symbolise

• his acquirement of knowledge

• "I discovered the cause of the fire”

• double edged sword - foreshadows how his acquirement of knowledge leads to destruction