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| Who is the protaganist? | Victor Frankenstein |
| Who is the antagonist? | the creature with no name or identity who sets out to destroy Victor |
| What is the climax of the story? | the monster murders Elizabeth on their wedding night so Victor vows to kill his creation |
| What is the outcome of this story? | the monster succeeds in killing everyone that Victor loved. Victor dies and the monster is driven by mankind to be evil |
| Why is the monster rejected by Victor and all other humans? | because of his horrible appearance |
| Why does Victor tell Robert his story? | Because they are both explorers of a sort. Robert loves voyages while Victor loves science. Each is prepared to go to any length to achieve his goals. Victor tells Robert his story so that he can learn to curb his enthusiasm about achieving his goals. |
| How does the monster intend to destroy his creator, Victor? | isolating him from those he loves. He kills Victor's brother, his friend and his wife. Justine is wrongly accused of murder and executed. |
| What request does the monster make of Victor? | to create another female monster to be his companion |
| Why does Victor decide not to make another monster? | His responsibility to the human race overrides his responsibility to his own creation |
| Where does Victor meet Robert? | At the North Pole where Victor dies |
| How does the monster want to die? | He vows to burn himself in a grand funeral pyre |
| What is the major theme of this story? | Playing God in the name of science leads to chaos and murder |
| Why does this story question cloning procedures? | It raises the ethics of mankind' involvement in creation. This new mode of creation, involving neither God nor womankind ultimately leads to destruction. There is no nurturing involved and nature has been manipulated. |
| How does this story address physical appearances? | the monster is judged based on his appearance. At first, he is sensitive and tolerant but no one tries to understand him or accept him the way he is. |
| How does this story treat the theme of love? | absence of love between the creator (Victor) and the monster can only lead to misery and destruction. |
| What is the mood of the story? | somber, cold, rage, and violence. |
| Who is the author of this book? | Mary Shelley |
| How does Frankenstein reflect many elements of the Romantic period (1798-1832)? | the primacy of feeling, the importance of nature, the individual and his quest, the supernatural, and the exotic, and solitude. |
| How does Victor's burning ambition work against him? | He defies his parents and dabbles in the supernatural and shows a natural human tendency to pursue the forbidden. His knowledge leaves him ignorant of the consequences of his action. He suffers from feelings of remorse and guilt and ultimately watches people die around him. He falsely believes that he can avenge his family's death by killing the monster. |
| Why is Frankenstein considered a gothic novel? | the gothic tradition highlights the grotesque, relies on mysterious and remote settings, and is intended to evoke fear. The monster is grotesques in appearance. He is deformed, towers over other human beings, and strikes fear in their hearts. The monster is created in a remote lab in Ingolstadt. Victor spends his time in vaults and charnelhouses and boldly visits the cemetary at night. The monster follows Victor everywhere and is never seen committing the murders. Victor's interest in creating life is an extension of his desire to escape death. By assembling body parts of the dead, Victor makes a monster who is part human and part ghost. Like a tormented spirit, his creation haunts the living. |
| How does the story of Frankenstein start? | Letters from the sea captain to his sister, Margaret. |
| How are monsters made according to Shelley? | by their environment and experiences in life. The creature is basically good but turns into a monster only after his love is not reciprocated. |
| How is Frankenstein's creation unnatural? | The monster is nothing but an assemblage of body parts which belong to dead people. This contrasts with the natural process of procreation through which life begets life. The monster never has a mother or father. |
