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Frankenstein Exam

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Victor Frankenstein
Genovese scientist who creates an intelligent but grotesque monster
The monster
eight-foot tall, hideous creation of Victor; intelligent and sensitive; tries to become part of humanity and is rejected
Robert Walton
Arctic explorer whose ship is icebound in the Arctic seas, picks up Victor Frankenstein and befriends him and brings him back to health.
Alphonse Frankenstein
Victor's father who is very sympatric towards his son. Wishes to see Victor and Frankenstein get married. Dies of a broken heart
Caroline Beaufort
Victor's mother who was taken in by the Frankenstein family after her own father dies. Dies of scarlet fever
Elizabeth Lavenza
orphan who is adopted by the Frankenstein family, Victor's cousin, marries Victor and is killed by the monster on her wedding night
Henry Clerval
Victor's boyhood friend who nurses Victor back to health after the creation of the monster. Killed by monster in Ireland
William Frankenstein
youngest brother of Victor, Monster strangles him in woods outside Geneva.
Justine Moritz
young girl adopted into Frankenstein household. Unjustly accused of killing William because she had the locket that William had had.
Beaufort
merchant and friend of Alphonse Frankenstein; Caroline's father
M. Waldman
chemistry professor at Ingolstadt who encourages Victor to pursue sciences that can explain the "big questions" about the origins of life.
M. Krempe
professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt; tells Victor that his studies of old alchemists were a waste of time and that he should begin his studies anew
M. Kerwin
Irish magistrate who accuses Victor of Clerval's murder, hears Victor's tale about the monster
the Turk
Safie's father; involves Felix in a plot to escape the French authorites
Felix
oldest son of the DeLacey family
Agatha
daughter of DeLacey family
Delacey
old blind father of the DeLacey family; monster appeals to him for protection and friendship
Safie
young Arabian whom Felix marries
Ernest
middle Frankenstein son; only remaining member of the family to survive
Archangel, Russia
location from which the letters are written to Margaret Saville
Geneva
home of Frankenstein family; deaths of Caroline, William, Justine, and Alphonse Frankestein
Ingolstadt
university where Frankenstein discovers the secrets of creating life; creates and abandons the monster here
Chamounix
town in the Alps where Frankenstein stays prior to the climbing the glacier and the mountains
Montavert
glacier on Mt. Blanc where monster meets Frankenstein; monster tells his story to Frankenstein.
Italy
Frankenstein family adopts Elizabeth in Milan; location of Villa Lavenza where Elizabeth is killed by the monster
France
DeLacey family is brought into political trouble by Safie's father
Germany
location of DeLacey cottage; monster observes family from hut and learns to speak, read, and write
England
location of walking tour Frankenstein and Clerval take while Frankenstein is planning the female monster
Orkney Islands in Scotland
Frankenstein begins and destroys the second monster
Ireland
Frankenstein is washed ashore after destroying the second monster, Clerval is murdered by monster; Victor is accused of Clerval's murder; Alphonse visits Victor in jail; Elizabeth writes her letter about relationship
Villa Lavenza
at Lake Como, Italy; Elizabeth's inheritance from her real father; Elizabeth and Frankenstein plan to spend their honeymoon here; Elizabeth is murdered by the monster
Why and how was this novel created?
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What is the subtitle of the novel and explain the Greek myth that is associated with the subtitle? How is one of the major characters in the novel like the major character in the Greek myth? How are the punishments similar?
Subtitle: The Modern Prometheus
Greek myth: responsible for the conflict between man and God
Prometheus stole the fire of the sun from Zeus
Humans were given an advantage over animals, they had fire to make weapons
What is the plot type of this novel and how is it defined?
What causes this novel to be classified in this way?
Gothic Romance
What are the two major themes of this novel?
The scientist's responsibility for one's own actions
Unjust persecution of an outcast from society
"Listen to my tale; when you have heard the that, abandon or commiserate me, as you
shall judge that I deserve. The guilty are allowed, by human law, bloody as they are, top
speak their own defense before they are condemned.
The monster; Unjust persecution
These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased
the regret which I felt as a child, on learning that my father's injunction forbid my uncle
to allow me to embark on a seafaring life."
Walton; Unjust persecution
. "I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abomination, to be spurned at, and kicked,
and tramples on."
Monster; Unjust persecution
"I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards
you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care;
I will work at your destruction, not finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall
curse the hour of your birth."
Monster; scientist's responsibility
"God knows how entirely I am innocent. But do not pretend that my presentations should
acquit me; I rest my innocence on the plain and simple explanation of the facts which I
have been adduced against me...."
Justine; unjust persecution
"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."
Monster; Scientist's responsibility; unjust persecution
"Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was different than mine in every other respect."
Monster; unjust persecution
"Many times I consider Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me."
Monster; unjust persecution
"I confess, my son, that I always looked forward to your marriage with our own dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years."
Alphonse Frankenstein; both themes
"You will know, Victor, that our union has been the favorite plan of your parents ever since our infancy. We were told when we were young and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place. "
Elizabeth; both themes
"Yes, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live-- swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes."
Victor; scientist's responsibility
"The murderer discovered! Good God! How can it be? Who could attempt to pursue him? It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds or combine a mountain stream with straw. I saw him too; he was free last night."
Victor; Scientist's responsibility
. "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption."
Victor; Scientist's responsibility
"Enter and I will try in what manner I can to relieve your wants; but unfortunately, my children are from home, and as I am blind, I am afraid I shall find it difficult to procure food for you."
DeLacey; Unjust persecution
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."
Victor; Scientist's responsibility
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