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Download Frankenstein Study Guide Questions and AnswersGraded A+ and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Frankenstein Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded A+ 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? He is writing to Margaret, his sister. 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? When Walton writes Letter 1 he is at the St. Petersburg. He is there because he needs to hire a crew for his ship. Plans to sail to the North Pole in order to discover magnetisms’ secrets. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? Self educated, loves to read, father died, loves adventure and discovery. Wishes he had a friend along to share it with. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton’s question “What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man”? Walton is sailing to the north. Walton’s question shows his faith in the Romanticism. Emotion over reason 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What “strange accident” has happened to the sailors? One month has gone by. The ship is trapped in ice and fog 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? He says he is looking for the one who fled from him. He asks for which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death and very weak. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man The man appears to be mysterious. “This person” is Victor: Educated, well-spoken, refined. Walton is fascinated by him. 9. How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again? What has happened in the meantime? How does the man respond to Walton’s project? How is Walton responding to the man? Clerval was interested in romantic literature. He acted in plays with Victor. He was intrigued in being moral. Elizabeth was captivated by poetry but she didn’t want to learn it. Victor was always intrigued by science, always wanted to learn more. 16. Who is Cornelius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him? How does Victor’s father respond, and how does Victor comment on that response? Cornelius Agrippa is a scientist that studied alchemy. Victor finds out about him by reading a book. Victor’s father says that Agrippa’s work is nonsense. The books are unscientific and outdated. 17. What sort of science (“Natural Philosophy”) is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus? How would a modern scientist respond to this sort of thinking? Victor is learning alchemy from Magnus, Agrippa and Paracelsus. Modern scientists would believe that this thinking is silly. Goal was to find the fountain of youth. 18. What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning and hears an explanation? What does Victor then begin to study? When Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning and hears an explanation, he decides to study galvanism and electricity. 19. Who or what does he credit for this change in direction? Who or what does he blame for his “utter and terrible destruction”? He acknowledges Krempe for this change in direction. He blames Waldman for his destruction. Waldman is his chemistry professor. Kempe-> Good encouraged. Waldman -> Chem= destruction 20. What happens to Elizabeth and to Victor’s mother as a result of Elizabeth’s scarlet fever? How does this compare with the mother’s early history? Caroline comes down with scarlet fever and eventually dies after she restores Elizabeth back to health. Caroline’s dad dies in an identical situation. 21. Why does Victor’s father send him to the University of Ingolstad? How old is Victor then? (Ingolstadt is in southern Germany, in Bavaria, on the Danube, 43 miles north of Munich. The university founded there in 1472 moved to Landshut in 1802 and to Munich in 1826.) Victor’s father sends him to the University of Ingolstad because he thinks that Victor should study in another country. At this time, Victor is 17. 22. What does Victor learn from M. Krempe? How does Victor respond to him, and on what grounds? Is this a good basis for making such a decision? Victor learns about natural philosophy from M. Krempe. Victor is troubled about this idea. Dislikes M. Kempe. 23. What does Victor learn from M. Waldman? How does Victor respond to him? How does Victor think of his older science as opposed to modern science? What does M. Waldman say in describing modern chemistry that changes Victor’s mind? What does Victor say he will now do? Victor learns that scientists are very powerful and can do miracles. Victor is astonished and says that he will go back to studying natural philosophy. Waldman teaches Victor chemistry. Impressed by M. Waldman, looks up to him. 24. How well does Victor progress during the next two years? What does he then become interested in, and what ultimately does he discover? 29. How does Victor respond to the actual creation of life ? What surprises him about the way the creature he has brought to life looks? What does that do to Victor’s response? He is immediately horrified but what he was able to create. He feels disgusted as well because he had hoped he was creating a beautiful creature, and instead the monster is very disgusting and hideous with its black lips and watery, white eyes. Victor realizes he has been depriving himself of being healthy, and rushes to his room but he cannot fall asleep. 1st rejection->”new” 30. What does Victor dream? How does the dream grow out of, comment on, even explain what Victor has done and been through? He dreams that he embraces Katherine and kisses her, and while he’s doing that, she turns into his dead mother. I think that the dream is showing what Victor has done, by taking something good like his need for knowledge, and and ruining it. 31. What does the creature do ? How does Victor respond? The creature comes into Victor’s room, open the curtain, smiles and Victor and mutters something. Victor responds by running out of his room away from his creation. 32. Whom does Victor meet arriving in a coach the next morning ? How does Victor respond? What does Victor discover when they go to Victor’s apartment ? How does Victor respond? What happens to him, and for how long ? Is there any more news of the creature? Victor meets Henry Clerval, who was his best friend as a child. Victor is filled with joy and happiness, after being sad for many months. Seeing Henry reminds Frankenstein of his family back home and all the fun times they had together. When they arrive back at the apartment the monster is nowhere to be found. Victor is ecstatic because he did not want Henry knowing about the creature, he clapped his hands and seemed relieved that the monster was not there. Victor is acting so strange, that he becomes sick with a nervous fever that he has for many months. There is no news of the creature. 33. What is waiting for Victor when he finally recovers? Who has nursed him during his illness? After Victor recovers, a letter from Elizabeth is waiting for him. Henry Clerval helped him during his illness. 34. Who is Justine Moritz and what is her story? What comments does Elizabeth make about her position in Swiss society ? What religion is Justine ? Justine had an abusive mother and was taken in by the Frankenstein family. Elizabeth says that Swiss peasants are moral and defined compared to other peasants. Justine is Roman Catholic. Justine’s family all died-> guilt: mom dies. Peasant looking for a family. 35. Who is William and how old is he? Have we heard of him before? William is Victor’s youngest brother. Yes, we heard of him before. He is about 5 years old. 36. What does Victor do after his recovery ? What is Clerval’s “plan of life” ? After his recovery, Victor makes visits to Krempe and Waldan. Clerval’s ‘”plan of life” is to study Oriental languages. 44. The next day, why does Justine say she has confessed to the murder of William ? How does Victor respond to Justine’s situation and to Elizabeth’s anguish? Justine is forced to confess because her priest threatens to excommunicate her. Fearing that this would damn her soul, she confesses a lie and then feels extreme anguish over the sin she has committed. Victor goes to the corner of the prison, and does not say anything in Justine’s defense. 45. How does Victor respond in the days after Justine’s death? How have Elizabeth’s views changed ? Victor is unable to sleep and wants to be alone. At first Elizabeth didn’t believe in capital punishment but her views change and she wants the murderer to be punished. 46. What journey does Victor undertake, and when ? What places does he travel through? Where does he stay? Victor takes a journey to the Swiss Alps in August. He travels through the Arve Valley. He stays in village of Chamounix. 47. Where does Victor go the next day? Where does he go the following day? P. B. Shelley mentions the glacier in a letter written an Chamouni (his spelling) on July 25, 1817: Victor travels through the valley. The following day, Victor climbs Montanvert. 48. How does he feel during this part of his journey? (Notice in this chapter that Frankenstein, in the late 1700s, is able to quote a poem written by P.B. Shelley in 1816.) Victor is filled with joy, peace and freedom. 49. Whom does Victor see? ? How does he respond ? Victor sees the creature. He is scared and horrified. He is ready to fight. 50. In this chapter, we finally hear the creature speak for the first time. What does he say? Is this what we expect from the creature? The creature says that he is very lonely. He is sad that his creator doesn’t like him. No we don’t expect this from the creature, we expect the creature to be violent. 51. What does the creature ask of Victor ? What does the creature say to Victor ? Does his language remind you of another literary work? How good is Victor at performing the role of creator for his creature? The creature asks Victor to listen to him. The creature says that misery made him a beast/fiend. Victor isn’t good at performing the his role as the creator. He left the monster. 52. Why has the creature caused the deaths of William and Justine? Is he as inherently evil and bloodthirsty as Victor has assumed? The creature kills William because of his relationship to Victor. He kills Justine by framing her. He isn’t as bloodthirsty as Victor assumed. 53. What will cause the creature to change? Keep in mind his statement “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous”.What sort of psychological understanding is Shelley showing here? Love and compassion will allow the creature to change. 54. How good of an ironic sense of humor does the creature have? (See the “hand” bit ) Creature relates touching Victor to Adam trying to touch God. 55. Does Victor agree to listen to the creature’s tale? What does Victor begin to feel ? Where do they go? It is not said what the old man’s name is. Agatha and Felix are brother and sister. 63. What things bother the creature when he thinks of discovering himself to the family ? How does he respond to his own appearance when he sees it? He is fearful that the family will be scared of him. He sees his reflection and compares himself to humans thinking he is ugly because he believes that the humans are beautiful. 64. The creature is still there when spring comes . What has been happening to Victor in the meantime? (See Chapter 5.) Victor is sick and Henry Clerval is nursing him back to health 65. How does the creature hope to win over the family? How does he respond to the coming of spring? The creature hopes he can learn to speak. Spring gives him hope and joy. 66. Who arrives at the cottage in the spring? What is Safie’s background? How does her language problem help the creature? Which of them learns faster? Safie arrives at the cottage in the spring. Her father was put in prison however he was innocent. Safie is taught French and the monster learns from Safie’s lesson. The monster learns faster because it is his first language instead of his second. 67. How does the creature learn about reading? What book does Felix use to teach Safie ? Felix teaches Safie with the Volney’s Ruins of Empires. 68. What does the creature learn from this book? How much of a monster can someone be who can say “but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing” ? The monster learns about the destruction and violence of mankind. Skewed view of humanity 69. What happens when the creature begins to think about himself? How does he compare with the humans described in the book? What questions does he ask himself? How does his knowledge make him feel? When the creature begins thinking about himself, he feels bad. He is the only “human” of his kind. He asks himself “Who am I?” This knowledge makes him feel ugly and unhappy. 70. What does he learn about human relationships, and how does this make him feel? The monster learns that human relationships are families and love. This once again makes him sad, he has nobody. 71. How did the De Lacey family come to be living in the cottage? The De Lacey family left France. In the past, they helped Safie’s dad leave the country. 72. How did Safie come to find and join them? She found letters from her father and they had directions to Felix 73. What does the creature find in the woods? A suitcase and some books 74. What are the three books that the creature reads, and what does he learn from each? 83. What does the creature demand from Victor ? The creature demands that Victor make a woman. 84. How does Victor at first respond to the creature’s demand? What response does he expect from the creature? What approach does the creature say he will take? In the beginning Victor says no. He expects the creature to be upset. Victor thinks about it and realizes that this would be a good thing for the monster. 85. How effective is the creature in convincing Victor? He is very effective and Victor agrees with him. 86. What does the creature say will happen if Victor creates a female for him ? The monster agrees that he has to live in the South American desert and can’t have any more contact with humans 87. What does Victor decide ? What does the creature say he will do while Victor is at work? He decides that he will build the female and the creature says he is going to monitor Victor. 88. How does Victor appear and respond to his family when he returns home? Victor comes across as very happy and healthy when he returns back to Geneva 89. Why does Victor’s father think Victor might not want to marry Elizabeth? Victor’s father thinks that Victor has fallen out of love with Elizabeth over time 90. Why does Victor want to visit England? What do you make of his talk of slavery ? There have been more advances of science in England. He says that his creation is enslaving him 91. What is the effect of Victor’s return to the present? It brings the reader back to the present and shows that Clerval will be dying later on in the book. 92. What are Clerval’s plans for his career? Clerval’s plans for his career are to assist with the English empire in India. 93. Where does Victor’s journey end, and what does he plan to do there? Why is he afraid? Victor ended his journey in the Orkney Islands and Perth, Scotland. Victor is afraid because he told the monster that he would build a female but it keeps pushing back his promise. 94. Why does Victor change his mind about creating the female? Who watches him as he destroys the female? Victor doesn’t want the female monster to breed more monsters. As Victor destroys the female the creature watches. 95. What happens shortly after Victor destroys the female? How is this similar to what happened after Victor created the Creature? After Victor destroys the female, he becomes sick. 96. What happens when the Creature visits Victor? What does the Creature promise to do? What does Victor understand that promise to mean? When the creature visits Victor he says that he will see him on his wedding night. The creature promises to destroy all of Victor’s happiness. Victor understands that promise to mean that the creature is going to kill him. The creature mocks Victor. He puts Elizabeth’s body out the window. 108. What happens when Victor returns to Geneva? What happens to Victor’s father? What happens to Victor? Shortly after Victor arrives in Geneva, Alphonse died of heartbreak, Victor becomes deathly ill, and madness overtakes him for a few months. 109. What happens when Victor tries to get the authorities to help him hunt for the Creature? The magistrate tells Victor that he should be ready for disappointment because there is very little that the law can do to capture the monster 110. What happens during Victor’s pursuit of the Creature? Where to they go? What does the Creature do? Victor sees the monster hide out on ship that is headed for Russia. Victor decides to follow the creature into the Arctic on a dog sled. 111. What sustains Victor during his pursuit? The creature leaves food for Victor 112. What does Victor ask Walton to do? What does he warn Walton about the Creature? Victor asks Walton to destroy the creature. Victor warns Walton that the creature is persuasive 113. Why wouldn’t Victor tell Walton the details about the creation? Victor won’t tell Walton the details about the creation because Victor doesn’t want him to know the secret. He believes it will kill Walton’s happiness. 114. How has Victor come to understand himself? How does Walton respond to Victor’s impending death? Victor believes his desire for science has chained him. Walton regrets knowing Victor when he was younger and more powerful. 115. How does Walton avoid the threat of a mutiny? Walton avoids the threat of a mutiny by accepting his crew’s demands to go back to England after the ice thawed. 116. Why is Walton returning to England? What will Victor do? Walton returns to England because of the voyage. The voyage resulted in death of a few crew members and the voyage was very dangerous. Victor says that he will continue his journey. 117. Does Victor blame himself? What is Walton’s response to Victor’s death? No, Victor doesn’t blame himself. Walton is very sad about Victor’s death, he cries. Walton really wants to turn the ship around and give up. 118. What happens as Walton is writing? What is the effect of shifting to the present tense here? The monster has boarded the ship, and Victor finds the body. There is a mood of fright, and there is also suspense now that the creature has appeared. 119. When Walton sees the Creature in the cabin with Victor’s body, what is familiar about the scene? Why has the Creature come to see Victor? It seems as though their roles have been switched. The creature stands over the body of Victor with no emotion on his face. The monster wants to ask Victor for his forgiveness.