18-20 Flashcards
(Ch. 18) Victor cannot bring himself to
fulfill his promise
(Ch. 18) Victor finds that to compose a female he would again need to devote several months to … and …
profound study; laborious disquisition
(Ch. 18) Victor heard of discoveries made by an … that were material to his success
English philosopher
(Ch. 18) Victor was generally in better … and …, but when he was overcome by melancholy, he would take refuge alone in a …, watching the …, listening to the … of …
health; spirits; little boat; clouds; rippling; waves
(Ch. 18) Victor’s father believes his misery is due to the fact that Victor may not want to …, that he might be in … with … and views Elizabeth as a …
marry Elizabeth; love; another woman; sister
(Ch. 18) Victor’s father asks him if he would be willing to …
marry Elizabeth immediately
(Ch. 18) To Victor, the idea of marrying Elizabeth immediately brought him … and … due to the fact that he still had to …
horror; dismay; fulfill his promise
(Ch. 18) Victor needed to … or enter into a long … with the … to learn what they knew that would help him in his undertaking
go to England; correspondence; English philosophers
(Ch. 18) Victor calls the creation of another human an …
unearthly occupation
(Ch. 18) Victor does not want to make the human at …. He is worried that his family would discover what he is doing too
his father’s house
(Ch. 18) Victor says that while making the human, he must … from all he loved
absent himself
(Ch. 18) Victor tells his dad that he would first like to …, but doesn’t explain why. His father is glad to hear that Victor would be capable of taking pleasure in a journey.
Victor says that his “absorbing melancholy” resembled …
visit England; madness
(Ch. 18) Victor would stay in England for …. or at most …
a few months; a year
(Ch. 18) Victor’s father arranged that … would join Victor at …
Clerval; Strasburgh
(Ch. 18) Victor is happy that Clerval will be with him, though he worries it would interfere with his solitude, because he thinks that it would cause the creature to
leave him alone
(Ch. 18) Victor’s marriage with Elizabeth would occur
part of the reason for this is that Victor’s father is
immediately upon his return; old
(Ch. 18) Victor was worried about leaving his friends … from the creature’s …, but his impulses tell him that the creature would …
unprotected; attacks; follow him
(Ch. 18) It was around the end of … when Victor left for England
September
(Ch. 18) Elizabeth is the one who arranged for Clerval to be with him. Elizabeth was filled with … at the idea of Victor’s suffering away from her
disquiet
(Ch. 18) Victor ordered that his … should be packed to go with him. He couldn’t focus on the beauty of the land, but was taunted by thoughts of the work that would occupy him
chemical instruments
(Ch. 18) Victor waited … for Clerval to join him
two days
(Ch. 18) Clerval was very …, unlike Victor
joyful and alive
(Ch. 18) Clerval says that the spirit that inhabits England and guards it has a soul more in harmony with … than those who pile the glacier
man
(Ch. 18) Victor says Clerval was a being formed in the
very poetry of nature
(Ch. 18) They arrive in Britain in
the latter days of December