| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
“I wish I could die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“When they were happy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys.” | arrow_right_alt | Walton |
“A new species would bless me as its creator and source, and many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“Fear not that I should be the instrument of future mischief. My work is merely complete.” | arrow_right_alt | Creature |
“No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she should to me-my more that sister, since death she was to be mine only.” | arrow_right_alt | Justine |
“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.” | arrow_right_alt | DeLacey |
“I expected this reception…all men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!” | arrow_right_alt | Creature |
“I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“I am not mad…the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of the most innocent victims.” | arrow_right_alt | Creature |
“You are my creator, but I am your master.” | arrow_right_alt | Creature |
“I did confess, but I confessed a lie.” | arrow_right_alt | Justine |
“Compose yourself. Your cousin and your father would be very happy if they received a letter from you.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“I know how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture…how it got placed in my pocket.” | arrow_right_alt | Elizabeth |
“Be happy, my dear Victor, there is, I hope, nothing to distress you.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Pittsburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.” | arrow_right_alt | Elizabeth |
“I shall be with you on your wedding night.” | arrow_right_alt | Clerval |
“And now it is ended; there is my last victim.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“ 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 that his nature will allow” | arrow_right_alt | Creature |
“I will try in what manner I can to relieve your wants…but my children are away…and…it is hard for me to procure food.” | arrow_right_alt | Victor |
“Everywhere I see bliss, from which I am alone irrevocably excluded.” | arrow_right_alt | Creature |
Before he dies, Victor does this to Walton’s notes on his story:
Elizabeth placidly (quietly, calmly) approves of Victor’s “travel plans,” but regrets that she:
Who is Victor’s companion during this time instead of Elizabeth?
Ultimately, Victor begrudgingly agrees to the creature’s request to create a companion, as long as the creature does this:
“A young girl…fell into the rapid stream. I rushed from my hiding place, and, with extreme labor from the force of the current, saved her, and dragged her to shore. She was senseless; and I endeavored, by every means in my power, to restore animation.”
What does this passage tell us about the creature?
It fully explains his refusal to commit suicide.
It proves that his inherent humanity initially undermined his rage at his wretched state.
It demonstrates his kinship with children.
It proves his desire to become a parent.
At first, what does the creature hope to receive from Victor?
“And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.”
What most prominently reminds the creature of his outsider status compared to the humans around him?
Why does the creature react so strongly to the introduction of Felix’s “sweet Arabian”?
She is a foreigner, and therefore an “Other,” just like him.
She cannot speak the same language as the cottagers, and yet they still accept her unconditionally: an acceptance that the creature yearns for.
The creature recognizes her from Ingolstadt, and knows that she is in contact with Victor.
The creature realizes that he also yearns for a loving companion.
How do Walton and Victor perceive the word “friend” in contrast with the creature’s definition?
“I saw few human beings beside them; and if any other happened to enter the cottage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.”
How does the creature define “friend”?
True or False: Frankenstein travels to the Arctic to escape from the creature.
True or False: One of the reasons that Victor is suspected of killing Henry is because Henry was drowned, not strangled.
What happened to the creature at the end of the novel?
Before Walton ventured into the Arctic, he wanted to become a renowned:
What natural phenomena influenced Frankenstein to create his creature?
Who was the recipient of a series of letters from her brother
All of the following allusions were central in Frankenstein EXCEPT:
In Frankenstein, the rejection of scientific progress is made evident through the inclusion of all of the following EXCEPT:
Mary Shelley’s mother died in this manner:
Victor falls extremely ill twice in the novel. Describe when he does, and what about those situations do you think is making him sick? Please explain.