frankenstein

Where is Walton's expedition going?

To the North Pole

He wants to where no man has ever gone before; what is he looking for?

He looks for whatever the ice is "hiding" from him and why his compass points north and a north passage.

In Walton's loneliness, what is his one desire on this expedition? Why? How does this fit into his feeling of illiteracy?

To make a friend because he is lonely. He is an elitist who only wants a friend who is of the same intelligence of him.

Walton says "but I shall kill no albatross, therefore do not be alarmed for my safety...." What is he trying to say by referring to the Ancient Mariner?

He will be careful and he won't do anything dumb

At the beginning of the letter, how is Walton's predicament similar to the Ancient Mariner?

He is stuck in ice. There is fog and mist

Two travelers pass the ship, what is the second travelers reason for being so far north?

He is looking for the first traveler.

Romantic element - Even with a broken spirit, the stranger feels deeply the beauties of nature. Explain his double existence.

Even on the outside he feels misery but he feels peace and consolation on the inside.

The stranger agrees to tell his story. Why does he feel it to be so important for Walton to hear the moral of his story? (Power of nature) He has to tell his story so that others will learn from it, who does this remind you of?

He wants Walton to hear so he doesn't do the same things he has done. This is similar to the Ancient Mariner.

How do Victor's parents come to be together?

Victor's father, Alphonse Frankenstein helped a friend, Beaufort, who fell on hard times. After Beaufort died, Alphonse cared for and eventually married Beaufort's daughter, Caroline.

What does Victor learn from his parents? - What they owe towards the being which they had given life.

He learns care and love. He had a good childhood.

True or False: Victor should've treated his creation with love and support.

True

Parents' love shown in taking in orphan Elizabeth. Describe how Elizabeth comes to live at Victor's home.

Elizabeth is a young aristocrat whose mother was an Italian woman who was taken to prison. Due to this, Elizabeth was sent to live with a family who was asked to take her in. It was actually Frankenstein's mother who set her eyes on Elizabeth so that the girl could have the opportunity to be raised in an environment more worthy of her status.

How does Victor foreshadow his and Elizabeth's future?

He calls her his "more than sister"

Romantisism

Elizabeth contemplates the magnificence of nature while Victor investigates the hidden laws of nature; secrets of heaven and earth

how does Victor embody Romanticism?

wants to try to find the hidden laws of nature and emotions

Why does Victor continue to read Cornelius Agrippa's works?

His father doesn't tell him that Agrippa's theories are outdated and unpractical. This philosopher had "wild fancies" that interested Victor. He blames his dad for not explaining to him why he shouldn't read his works.

"elixir of life"

banish disease and render man invulnerable to all but violent death

How does Victor discover electricity? (foreshadowing)

He saw the destruction of lightning. (exploded tree)

Victor pursues his destiny and it leads to his ruins. What should have he done instead?

He should have stopped, but he turned to mathematics.

What were Victor's thoughts as he traveled to school?

He thinks it is wrong to leave his dead mother so soon. He feels alone and melancholy.

Victor finally alone. His beliefs (immortality and power) shot down by Professor Kempe. How?

Kempe tells him that the books he was reading were useless.

How does Professor Waldman's speech motivate Victor? (nature)

It shows him the power of nature and makes him want to find the cure for death again.

What field of study does Victor pursue at the university in Ingolstadt in order to discover the mysteries of creation?

He pursues branches of natural philosophy

Words of fate that would destroy Victor

"Pursue all branches of natural philosophy"

What question changed Victor's mind about staying in school? What did he wish to examine?

"Did the principle of life proceed?" He wished to examine life after death and how is life created?

What does victor learn to do?

Bestow movement to lifeless matter

What project did he undertake?

To create a creature who was dead and bring it to life. It took 2 years.

Victor's ideal

His creations would be grateful to him like a child to his father.

What is the material out of which Victor creates his "human"?

Dead body parts and animal parts which he got from graveyards, morges and slaughterhouses

Victor turns away from nature and friends which once spiritually uplifted him. Why?

To pursue his goals and his research

Words to describe the creature: catastrophe, wretch, horrid, accident of life, disgust, demonical corpse. Other description?

The creature, black hair, black straight hair, big pearly teeth.

Allusion to the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

There is a quote of the poem on page 45

Victor's two rejections of the monster

in his lab and his bedside

How did Victor react to finding the creature gone?

He was happy and over the top excited

How does Justine become part of the family? What does Justine feel caused the death of so many family members?

Victor's mother adopts her from a widow and is abusive towards her. She thinks it was a punishment from heaven.

What things is Victor disgusted by that once brought him pleasure?

Natural Philosophy, his lab, lab instruments, and nature.

Victor's guilt and remorse for creating the monster now becomes evident. Whose death does Victor feel responsible for?

William's death

Romantic ideal

nature rejuvenates Victor

What does victor realize?

The monster killed William.

Violent storms set the stage for Victor's encounter with the creature. What does Victor feel will soon endure?

Anguish

How many years passed after creation did the monster begin to kill?

2 years

Victor decides not to tell anyone about the creature/murderer. Is this right? Doesn't he have an obligation to society to prevent creature from killing again?

No, this is not right. He does have an obligation to stop the creature from killing again but he will sound crazy if he told anyone.

Who is hurt by his silence? Does Victor have an obligation to prove Justine's innocence since he knows who the murderer is?

Justine is hurt by his silence. He does have an obligation to prove Justine's innocence.

What evidence convicts Justine?

Justine had William's locket.

how many deaths does Victor now feel responsible for? -chapter 8

William's and Justine's

What does Victor do when it comes to responsibility?

He runs away from it

Why did he not step forward with the truth?

Because he would sound crazy.

Why did Justine confess to the murder if she did not do it?

They said they would make her go to hell if she doesn't confess also known as excommunicating her from the Church.

How do you feel when Justine thanks Victor for believing in her innocence?

I feel sad for Justine because she is thanking the one person who could possibly save her.

Why is Justine at more peace than Victor? (just like Macbeth vs Duncan)

She is at peace in heaven

Victor says he will fear the monster as long as \________

the monster lives

Elizabeth tells Victor, "I am not so retched as you are." What is the irony here?

Nobody is as retched as Frankenstein since he is responsible.

Nature is only a temporary relief for Victor. What is stopping him from being healed?

His guilt of creating the monster

Victor meets the creature. Victor still rejects him and refuses to hear him out. Does Victor owe his creation this?

it is the least he could do

"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel....." states the creature quoting Paradise Lost. How does the creature compare himself to Adam?

The creature said he should have been treated like Adam with Frankenstein being like God.

Creature places moral responsibility on Victor's shoulders. Victor has one more chance to help the creation he has rejected. How?

By listening to its story and helping him

What do both the monster and Frankenstein retreat into in Chapter 10?

Nature

What does Victor finally feel?

Compassion towards his duty to his creation

First impression were of\________

The radiant form, \_____ that gave him pleasure.

The awareness of touch\_____

The awareness of sound\_____

light,hunger

moon

fire/pain

birds chirping

Where do his first feelings of rejection come in?

An old man in a hut ran away from him

Where did the monster retreat after his fierce rejection in the village?

In a little hovel near a house

The creature's successive mistreatment by every human being he meets gradually changes his response to people. How? Does this personality change seem normal to you under the circumstances?

He hides from them. It does seem normal.

What are some human lessons the creature learns from observing the Delaceys?

Happiness, family, love

What was wrong with the older man?

He was blind

What did he feel were the causes of the Delacey's unhappiness?

They were poor

What is the disposition of Felix? Agatha? The old man?

Felix is usually depressed.

Agatha is sometimes joyful but sometimes depressed.

The old man seems jolly most of the time.

How did the monster help the Delacey's?

He got them firewood, cleared paths for them, and stopped stealing from them.

The monster foreshadows rejection by the Delacey's when he appears to them. How did he hope to win their favor?

By learning their language and doing nice things for them.

How did the monster learn how to speak and read?

First by listening to them talking and then from hearing Felix teach Safie.

Springtime- the monster is elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature

Romanticism

How did the monster perceive man after listening to Felix read "Ruins of Empires"?

The monster perceived man as both good and evil but mostly evil.

Learning about man induced the monster to turn towards himself. How does he begin to feel about and question himself?

He questions why he exists and where he belong in this world.

Why does the advent of Safie cause the creature pain? What question does he begin to ask?

Felix loves and accepts Safie and the monster feels like no one will ever love or accept him

Explain the narrators remark at the end of chapter 13 commenting on his "additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved in and innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them.)"

the creature calls the cottagers his "protectors" because he pretends that he is a part of their family and that they would take care of him.

How were the Delaceys ruined?

Felix helped Safie's father escape Prison. Agatha and the old man were then thrown in jail because of this and Felix turned himself in hoping to set them free. Their own country then exiled them and took their money because of this.

What effect upon the monster did the books have?

Sorrows of Werter: death and suicide, reflects upon himself-

Plutarch's lives: love heroes of past ages

Paradise Lost: relation to Adam/Sam

How does the monster feel connected to Adam?

Adam was lonely and had no one at first

How does the monster feel connected to Satan?

The monster (Ugly like Satan) is lonely and is hated by everyone.

How does the monster feel as he reads Frankenstein's journal?

He feels disgusted, angry, and begins to utteraly hate his creator.

How does the old man react to the monster?

He helps comfort the monster because he cannot judge him

The final association with the Delacey family

Painful and ends in rejection again.

What does the monster do after the rejection from the Delacey family?

Declares everlasting war against man and his creator.

How did the monster get revenge on the Delaceys?

He burned down their house

"nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless, rain and snow poured around me" What does this say about the affects of nature on the monster?

Nature doesn't sustain the monster anymore

what reward does the monster get from saving the women?

He is shot.

Why did the monster feel he could approach the child?

the child was unprejudiced and has no preconceived notions of deformities

What did the child tell him that enraged him?

He was a Frankenstein and called him a hideous creature

How did the monster frame Justine? Why?

He put the locket on her because he first loved her but then realized she would just be afraid of him

What is the final request the monster makes of Victor?

He wants Victor to make him a companion

Why does Victor refuse to create a mate for the monster?

The monster might use her to help him destroy things and kill people. Plus, he doesn't want them to populate and reign terror on the world.