Honors English Frankenstein Test!!!! Goodie!!!! – Flashcards
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Who wrote the prologue to Frankenstein?
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Percy Shelley
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What was the purpose of the prologue?
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To make it clear that Mary Shelley was not a witch and they did not believe that the content of the book could ever happen
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What stories inspired the idea of writing the "ghost stories" that summer?
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Prometheus, Paradise Lost
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What character wrote the letters?
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Robert Walton
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How did Frankenstein's parents meet?
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Alphonse knew Caroline's father and comforted her in his death
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How did Mary Shelley interject her social interests of caring for the poor in her story?
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The adoptions of Elizabeth and Justine
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How did Mary Shelley portray the women (Caroline/Elizabeth) in chapter one? Why was this surprising?
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Kind and dainty; her mom was a feminist
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Describe Victor's childhood.
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He thought he had a really good childhood
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How did Elizabeth come into the Frankenstein home?
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She was adopted as a childby the Frankensteins while they were on a trip to Italy
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How did Frankenstein feel about Elizabeth?
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He loved her and looked at her as his to protect and care for
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What were Victor's social tendencies and how did he interact with friends?
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He didn't have any friends other than Henry Clerval because he liked books and learning better than people
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How did Victor's interests in learning contrast Henry's?
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Victor cared more about learning and less about being social
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What does Victor mean when he talks about his desire to learn about science: "I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, had swept away all my hopes and joys."
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His search for knowledge is what ruined his life
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Which authors and topics do Victor become obsessed with?
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Cornelius Agrippa and alchemy
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How does Victor learn about alchemy and natural science? How does this fit with Romanticism?
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He read because he wanted to -- even after his dad told him it was trash
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How was Victor's experience with lightning a turning point in his life?
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When the Lightning destroyed a tree, e learned about electricity and was interested by it
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What was Victor's destiny?
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To study science and be destroyed by it
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What were Caroline's hopes for Elizabeth and Victor's future?
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They'd get married
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What was Elizabeth's response to Caroline's death?
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She felt like she had to become the comfort and caretaker of he rest of the family
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Why did Henry Clerval's dad disapprove of education?
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He wanted Henry to go into the same work that he was in
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What does victor mean when he states, "Chance - or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door..."
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He was destined for terrible things as soon as he left his dad's house
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How does Victor interact differently with M. Kreme and M. Waldman?
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M. Kreme: Victor saw him as conceited and condescending M. Waldman: Victor saw him as encouraging and respectable
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Why does Victor shun his friends and family while working on his creation?
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He isolates himself so he doesn't have distractions
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What does Victor mean when he says, "In other studies, you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder."
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There's always more to learn and figure out when it comes to science
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What specific aspects of biology does Victor study?
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Natural philosophy
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How does Victor think his creation will act towards him?
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Grateful, as a son to him
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How does Victor violate his own advice when he says, "A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility."
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He let his work get the best of him -- he stepped away from the rest of society to do crazy stuff
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How does Victor react when his creature comes to life?
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He flips out and runs away
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How do Victor's dreams take on the mood of a horror story?
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He dreams that Elizabeth is with him but she turns into his dead mother who starts decaying in front of him
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How does the passage from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" apply to Frankenstein?
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He's alone in the knowledge of his creation and he feels surrounded by the monster
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What was the favor Henry asked of Victor?
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He wants him to write to his family
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What does Elizabeth say in her letter to Victor?
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She says they all miss him and that she wishes she could've taken care of him while he was sick, his dad was doing well, and s bringer was taking about joining the military
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How does Justine done to live with the Frankensteins?
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Her mother was insane do the Frankensteins took her in
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How does Victor feel after reading the letter from Elizabeth?
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He feels bad for not writing to them in such a long time because he realized how much they missed him
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How did M. Waldman and M. Krempe speak of Victor when he and Clerval visit them?
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A good student and extremely intelligent
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What do Victor and Henry start studying together?
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Oriental languages
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How does Clerval affect Victor's mood?
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Makes him a lot happier and closer to who he was before the monster
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How does William die?
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He was strangled
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Why does Elizabeth blame herself?
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She gave William the locket that was stolen off the body
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How long had it been since Victor visited Geneva?
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6 years
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How does Victor feel about the Swiss landscape during the day with how he saw it at night?
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Day: welcoming Night: evil
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How does the author utilize the lighting motif as Victor returns?
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As lighting flashes, Victor saw the shape of the monster illuminated on the mountains
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How dies Victor talk himself out of going after the monster?
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He knew he wasn't strong enough and he she people would think he was crazy
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What does Victor believe when he tells Ernest, "The murderer discovered! Good God! How can that be? Who could attempt to pursue him? It is impossible; one night as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain stream with straw."
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He thinks they've caught the monster
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What is the evidence used to charge Elizabeth with the crime?
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The locket
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Why does Elizabeth refuse to believe that Justine is guilty?
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She trusts her because she's known her for so long
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Why doesn't Victor announce the real murderer or confess to the crime?
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He thinks people will say he's insane
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How does the evidence against Justine build?
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She doesn't have an alibi, and she doesn't know how she got the locket
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How does Elizabeth defend Justine?
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She tells stories of how caring Justine was and said that she wouldn't have had to steal the locket, she could've just asked because that's how much Elizabeth trusted her
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Why does Victor claim he is suffering worse than the accused?
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He feels guilty
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Why does Justine confess?
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She was told that if she didn't she would go straight to hell
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How did Justine receive an unfair trial?
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She didn't get a lawyer, she forced into a confession, she was executed really soon after she confessed
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How does Victor respond to William and Justine's deaths?
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He's emotional and moody but doesn't do anything about it
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What does Victor do at night after the rest of the family went to bed?
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He goes to the lane and contemplates suicide
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What is the irony in Victor's desire to "extinguish the life he had do thoughtlessly bestowed"?
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He wants to kill the thing he gave life to
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Why does Victor say he is the true murderer?
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He created the thing that committed the murder that the other murder victim was accused of
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How does the monster offer an ultimatum to Victor?
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He'll leave Victor and his family alone if he abides by the monster's wishes
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How does the monster blame humanity for his behavior?
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They made him bitter because they treated him so badly
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What is the monster's chief complaint?
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He's lonely
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Who's POV are chapters eleven and twelve told?
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The monster's
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What are the monster's first experiences when he leaves Ingolstadt?
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He wandered through the woods and learned about fire, water, and food
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How does the monster learn about fire?
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He happens upon the remnants of a small fire, burns jus hand, learns that by adding wood the fire lasts longer, and that it can be used for warmth and cooking
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What does the monster learn about humanity in his first experiences with them?
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He's scary to them and they're cruel to him
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Why does the monster isolate himself?
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He realizes he's unwanted and unaccepted so he stops trying
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Describe the family the monster observes.
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Old blind guy with his daughter and son
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What are the observations the monster makes of the DeLaceys' lifestyle compared to its reality?
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The monster thinks they're fortunate because they have clothes, a house, food, and each other but they consider themselves poor
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How does the monster help the DeLaceys?
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Cuts wood and shovels snow for them
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How does the creature learn from the DeLaceys?
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Learns about music, speech, reading, and family life by observing
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Why does the monster want to learn to speak?
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So he can communicate with people to show them that he isn't evil
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Whose arrival improves Felix's spirits?
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Safie
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How does Safie's presence facilitate the creature's ability to speak and read?
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The DeLaceys were teaching Safie how to do those things so the monster just listened and learned from them
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How does the creature demonstrate his fear of encountering humans?
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He only leaves his hole at night and avoids all contact with human life
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What does the creature learn about the human spirit from Volney's Ruins of Empires?
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Humans can be good and evil, history, wealth and poverty, values of wealth and power
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How does this knowledge make the creature ponder his place in the universe?
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He doesn't have anything that humans value -- beauty, wealth, power, family, companionship
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How do the monster's reflections demonstrate his innate humanity?
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He saw how ugly he was ad realized why everyone was so scared of him
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What is the DeLaceys' background?
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They were a wealthy and highly respectable family in France
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What are the circumstances that caused the DeLaceys' ruin?
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Safie's father was unfairly arrested and sent to jail so Felix decided to break him out which caused them all a lot of trouble
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How does Safie's dad use Safie to ensure Felix's assistance?
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He offers Safie as a reward
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How did Safie want to reject the cultural expectations placed on her?
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She wanted to marry a Christian and make her own decisions
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What is the irony in Safie's father not wanting her to marry a Christian?
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He married a Christian
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While Felix is in Italy courting Safie, what happened to his dad and Agatha?
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They're arrested because of what Felix did then they are all decided to be guilty and are sent away
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How does the creature see himself as different from Adam in Paradise Lost?
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Adam's creator loved him and cared about him but his didn't
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How does knowledge heighten the creature's frustration with his situation?
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He begins to understand why people are so scared of him
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How does the creature think the DeLacey family will respond to his attempts of interaction?
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He thinks they'll be kind to him and ignore his ugliness
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What happens when the creature meets the DeLacey family?
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Felix walks in and attacks it
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After a lot of thought, how does the monster believe he should've done things? What does the creature decide to as a result?
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He should have approached then slowly to get them to trust him Try to talk to them again
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What does the creature see in the morning? What doe she decide to do as a result?
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Felix talking to a random guy about moving Burn down their house and go after Frankenstein
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Why does the creature want to meet Victor?
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He thinks he'll find companionship in Victor
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How does the situation with the DeLaceys change the creature?
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He becomes gutter towards all human life
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What happens between the monster and the drowning girl?
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It sees a little girl drowninf, tries to save her, and is shot in the shoulder
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Why does the monster choose to kill William?
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It finds out that William is related to Victor
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Why does the monster put the locket in Justine's pocket?
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As revenge towards women because he didn't have a female in his life
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What is the demand the monster makes of Victor?
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He wants Victor to make a female version of himself
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How does Victor first respond to the monster's demands?
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He says there's no way he would do it
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How does the monster convince Victor to make him a mate?
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Promises he'll leave his friends and family alone
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How does the creature believe companionship will help his temperament?
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He says the reason he is evil is because of his loneliness
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How does the monster plan to keep track of Victor's progress?
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He follows Victor no matter where he goes
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What are the feelings of the monster compared to that of Walton's at the beginning of the book?
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They're both very lonely
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Why does Alphonse think Victor is depressed?
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He thinks Victor doesn't want to marry Elizabeth anymore
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Why does Victor feel like he can't marry Elizabeth anymore?
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He doesn't want to put her in direct danger of the monster so he has to make the female version first
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How does Victor manipulate his father so he has the time and liberty to create the second monster?
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He tells his dad he wants to travel before he gets married
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Why does Victor think his family will be safer if he leaves Switzerland?
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Because the monster will follow him instead of being near his family
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How does the setting and scenery of Victor's journey finally affect Victor's mind and spirit?
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He couldn't think about anything but the monster at first but nature started to calm him
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How does Victor feel about Clerval's friendship/companionship?
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He appreciates him and is grateful for him
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While Clerval and Victor are in London what does Clerval do?
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Works on Indian trade and colonization
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To what is Shelley alluding to in Victor's assertion: "But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself"?
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the lightning striking a tree in his younger years
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How does Victor view the process of creating a female creature?
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It's torture to him
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Why can't Victor bear to hear Henry speak of Chamounix?
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That's where he had a conversation with the monster
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Why does Victor sometime fear for Henry's life while on their trip?
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He thought the monster would attack him
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What does Victor ask of Henry? What does Victor do by himself?
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That he would go somewhere else while Victor goes off by himself Create the second monster
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How does Victor's selection of the Orkney Islands mirror his feelings?
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It's secluded and lonely
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What is Victor's emotional state as he creates the second monster?
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He's disgusted and scared
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What are Victor's concerns about creating another monster?
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He doesn't know what it'll go or how violent it'll be compared to the other monster
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Why does Victor destroy the new creature?
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He realizes that the monster played him and that it was a terrible idea
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How does the monster convert the power he thinks he holds over Victor?
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He says he can make Victor's life miserable and called himself Victor's master
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What does the monster mean when he tells Victor, "I shall be with you on your wedding night."
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He's going to attack that night
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How does Victor feel after the monster threatens him?
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He doesn't know what to do and he's scared
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What does Victor do with the remains of the female creature?
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He tosses it into the sea and lets it sink
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What does Victor do when he becomes tired while sailing?
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He falls asleep in the bottom of the boat
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How does the dead body's appearance relate to its cause of dearh?
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There are finger prints on the body's neck that show it was strangled
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Why do people think Victor was the murderer?
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People saw him by the ocean and in a boat
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Who was killed?
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Henry Clerval
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How does Victor respond after seeing Clerval's body? How does he began early in jail?
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He gets really sick and depressed
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How does Mr. Kirwin help Victor?
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Gets a nurse for him and writes to Victor's dad
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What "destiny of most horrible kind" does Victor think "hangs over him"?
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The monster is going to attack him
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How is Victor acquitted of Clerval's murder?
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He was on Orkney Island when the crime occurred and there wasn't enough evidence against him
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What is Victor's emotional response to his acquittal?
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He gets depressed and suicidal again
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What is the meaning of Victor telling his father, "A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race."
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He would be done anything to save his family but he couldn't risk the whole human race
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Why does Elizabeth think Victor is troubled?
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She thinks he's fallen in love with someone else
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What does the monster think Victor plans to do on his wedding night? What dies Victor fail to think about?
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Kill him That he might kill Elizabeth
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How does Victor try to protect himself from the monster?
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He arms himself and goes to a remote island
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How does Shelley use nature to foreshadow ominous happenings at the beginnings of chapter twenty-three?
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A storm
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How is the monster with Victor on his wedding night?
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He kills Elizabeth and then laughs at victor's pain
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How does Elizabeth's death intensify Victor's concerns for his other loved ones?
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He worries the monster wiki then go to Geneva and attack the remains of s family
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How does the monster indirectly kill Alphonse Frankenstein?
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Alphonse dies of grief after Elizabeth's death
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How do Elizabeth and Alphonse's deaths change Victor's focus in life?
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He goes after the monster so it doesn't hurt anyone else
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Why doesn't the magistrate think he can do anything to help Victor's situation?
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He says the monster is too strong and fast to be caught by humans
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How does Victor's comment that the creature "may be hunted like the camois, and destroyed as a beast of prey" relate to his perception of the creature?
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He hates the creature so much that he is determined to destroy it
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Where does Victor go and why?
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Over sea to the Arctic to track the monster
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Hoe does Victor Venice he is being guided by a "spirit of good"?
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He believes his dead family was protecting him and guiding him
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How did Victor and the creature's roles reverse?
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The creature tracked Victor at the beginning of the book but now Victor tracks the creature through the arctic
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Why does the creature leave behind hints on his trail?
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To show that he was in charge of the game
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What does the monster mean when he tells Victor, "My reign is not yet over... You live, and my power is complete"?
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It knows Victor is on his tracks and that will stay in control as long as Victor stays alive
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What is the monster's state of mind and how he views humans while on his journey?
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He sees them all as his enemies
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Evaluate Victor's sanity and ability to make rational decisions as he pursues the creature.
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He goes with his gut and doesn't think much through the journey
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What natural event threatens Victor's safety?
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Ice
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Why are Safie and Felix's letters important to Walton?
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They're proof that victor's stories were true
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What were the issues aboard Walton's ship?
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The crew wanted to overthrow Walton so they could turn around away from the ice
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How did Walton spend most of his time once Victor boarded?
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He spent his time listening to Victor's story and writing it down
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Summarize frankenstein's speech to the crew.
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He tells them to keep going and to be brave as they finished their journey
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How does Victor's speech parallel his quest for the creature?
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He tried to continue to follow the monster even as he became sick and began dying
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Why does Walton decide to take the ship south?
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To avoid mutiny of his crew
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Why is this statement by Victor surprising? - "In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature, which was bound toward him, to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being."
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He never tried to make the monster happy or attempedt to take care of the monster
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Who does Walton grind with Victor?
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The monster
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How does the monster feel once Victor is dead?
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It pities Victor and feels bad that he tortured him so he mourns for Victor
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Examine the creature's belief, "I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested, yet could not disobey."
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He means that he couldn't help how evil he had been -- that when he was hurting people, he hated it, but couldn't do anything to stop it
