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| Where was Victor Frankenstein born? | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Why is the friendship between Victor's father and Beaufort as well as the friendship between Victor and his adopted sister Elizabeth significant? | The impulse toward friendship is an underlying Romantic theme. Even the monster makes efforts to befriend a family. |
| Why is there a big age difference between Victor's parents? | Caroline was the orphaned daughter of Beaufort who was a friend of Victor's father. |
| Why did Victor's parents adopt Elizabeth? | Caroline always wanted a girl and Victor's father just wanted to please Caroline. |
| Who was Victor's only friend growing up? | Henry Clerval, the son of a merchant |
| How is Victor's relationship with his sister Elizabeth an example of the attraction between opposite natures that is characteristic of the Romantic love relationship? | They complement each other perfectly although they are of different dispositions. While he is more enthusiastic, she is calm. He is excited by knowledge of any kind, she concentrates on literature and nature. |
| What is the significance of the bolt of lightning hitting a tree? | This incident inspires him to change to the study of natural phenomena instead of natural philosophy. From that point on, he concentrates on electricity and galvinism. |
| How is Victor's thirst for knowledge manifesting itself in strange ways? | He finds raising ghosts and devils to be the most interesting |
| How does Victor's mother die? | She catches scarlet fever trying to nurse Elizabeth back to health |
| Who is left in charge of the children? | Elizabeth |
| Who does Victor's mother want him to marry? | Elizabeth since they are not blood relatives. |
| Why does Victor reach Ingolstadt University with mixed feelings? | Although he wanted to continue his studies, he did not want to leave his family. |
| How does Victor like his professor, M. Krempe? | He finds him rude but knowledgeable. He insists that Victor begin his studies from scratch. |
| How does Victor like Professor Waldman? | He likes his mild manner and kind disposition. He wants to be a disciple of Waldman and visits the laboratory with him. |
| Why doesn't Henry go to Ingolstadt? | He is forbidden to go by his narrow-minded, merchant father. Some sectors of society require a family profession to be taken up by the children. |
| How does Victor feel in Ingolstadt? | He feels lonely an isolated in his interests. This is the first time that Victor has to face separation from his loved ones. His distress is related in detail. |
| How does Victor misuse dangerous knowledge? | He is now capable of bestowing life on lifeless matter and he dabbles in the supernatural to creat a human being of 8 feet height. |
| Why does Victor spend his nights in the charnelhouses? | Dead bodies are being deposited here so he can observe the cause and progress of decay in the dead human body |
| How does this chapter illustrate the Romanticism's fascination with death? | Victor spends time with dead bodies as if he were a ghost himself. He is not deterred by the darkness or superstition. |
| What does Victor use to create his monster? | parts of dead humans |
| Why does Victor want to make many monsters? | He want to be called the father of them and thus earn their gratitude. He gives himself up to this and loses all sense of time. |
| How does Victor defend his ambitions to create all these monsters? | He thinks it is a noble aim and will benefit society. |
| How has the process of creation taken a toll on Victor? | He now becomes slightly more nervous (even a falling leaf can disturb him) and he is also abnormally aloof from fellow humans. Yet he believes that the completion of this creation can restore him to health and peace. |
