Ch. 1-3 Frankenstein (Cont.) Flashcards
(Ch. 1) Victor’s father:
Alfons
(Ch. 1) Victor’s parents’ marriage built out of
sense of responsibility
(Ch. 1) Victor’s first memory is … in his father’s eyes and … in his mother’s. His parents felt a deep-rooted responsibility to raise him as if he was given by …, they feel that having a child is a great …
pride; benevolence; heaven; responsibility
(Ch. 1) Victor understands that his parents felt responsible for his … and …
existence; happiness
(Ch. 1) Elizabeth was … than the other kids, which is why his parents picked her, but … also led them to her –> this idea is important to Romantics, as … is considered the … of the …
more attractive; intuition; intuition; mind; secret self
(Ch. 1) Victor’s relationship with Elizabeth was first influenced by mom’s statement that she was …, instilled idea of … in Victor, maybe this is coupled with his parent’s idea that relationships are not based on .., but on …
giving him a gift; owning a person; romance; responsibility
(Ch. 2) Victor recognizes that Elizabeth and he have things in common and differences:
they enjoy being …
Elizabeth takes delight in what … is, but Victor asks the question “…” –> he has deep sense of …, but Elizabeth has deep sense of …
together; nature why; curiosity; contentment
(Ch. 2) Henry Clerval:
interested in … and …
… are his mentor
danger; excitement; Arthurian legends
(Ch. 2) Arthurian legends:
…, knights of … –> roundness shows …, shows that Clerval values ideals of … and people … for the …, he’s an … man
Camelot; round table; equality; equality; working together; common good; honorable
(Ch. 2) Elizabeth loves the …, Henry loves …, and Victor loves …, which are impossible to ..
world; people; secrets of Heaven; attain
(Ch. 2) Mary’s biography merges with the text: Victor went on vacation where it was … constantly, found an … –> this blending … one of the … –> this is “…”
raining; old book; breaks; narrative frames; breaking the 4th wall;
(Ch. 2) 4th wall separates … from …, Mary’s life is now …
you; story; this book
(Ch. 2) natural philosophy:
chemistry
(Ch. 2) warning from Victor’s …: don’t pursue …
father; chemistry
(Ch. 2) galvanism: creation of … through … means
alchemy: search for turning everyday items into …
electricity; chemical; gold
(Ch. 2) warning of do not read now has come from 2 sources: … and …
Alfons; the stranger
(Ch. 2) chimerical:
- chimera: creature that has the … of a …, … of a …, and … of a … (from …)
- chimera: something you …, but ….
head; lion; body; goat; tail; serpent; Greek mythology; desperately want; cannot have
(Ch. 2) a chimera (the lion, goat, serpent hybrid) is like ….: …, … of …
the creature; monsters; assemblages; parts
(Ch. 2) Victor has … problem (definition 2)
chimerical
(Ch. 2) Victor finds it interesting that they (Magnus, Paracelsus, etc.) …, …., and give … but can’t find the … of ….–> he feels as if he and these men are left out of the … of …
dissect; anatomise; names; origin; nature; citadel; knowledge
(Ch. 2) citadel:
huge library
(Ch. 2) Victor’s first impulse: … pursuit to save humans from .. so the only kind of … would be a … one. Like Walton, Victor imagines ….
noble; illness; death; violent; glory
(Ch. 2) Victor notices a common theme of … in his reading, he believes it to be a real potential, and if he can’t achieve it, it’s because he’s …
raising the dead; inexperienced
(Ch. 2) fire is significant because …, and fire causes his ….
Victor fixates on the … during the storm, not the …
Prometheus stole fire; eternal punishment; fire; lightning
(Ch. 2) Victor witnesses the lightning strike with a … who explains it so logically that Victor believes that Agrippa actually is sad trash
Victor feels …
chemist; betrayed
(Ch. 2) strangest thing about our … according to Victor: we never perceive a moment as a …, never a definitive “what do I do” kind of moment that decides our …
souls; crossroads; fate
(Ch. 2) Victor again receives the same warning: do not pursue … by …
knowledge; reading
(Ch. 3) Elizabeth is Caroline’s … –> she attends to Elizabeth and ….
favorite; gets sick
(Ch. 3) On her deathbed, Caroline is compelled to fulfill her last wish for Elizabeth and Victor to …, she tells Elizabeth to take her place as a … to her …
get married; mother; young siblings
(Ch. 3) Caroline’s death relates to Mary’s mother’s death, .. bears some of Mary’s character
Elizabeth
(Ch. 3) Victor feels that he was … as he looks back at his life –> he was given every opportunity to pursue the path that would …, whereas Clerval was forced to stay home since his father was a …., and Elizabeth was forced to stay home to act as the …
cursed; lead to his destruction; merchant; mother
(Ch. 3) Victor meets … who makes him dislike natural philosophy even more
M. Krempe
(Ch. 3) but then Victor meets …, who … his interest
M. Waldman; rekindles
(Ch. 3) Waldman combines Victor’s … in … with ….
early interests; ancient scientists; modern chemists
(Ch. 3) According to Waldman, modern chemists are discovering the …, which is a worthwhile endeavor –> this affirms early part of Victor’s life
secrets of nature
(Ch 4) Victor says his interest has been … and focused on …, particularly, what … us
reignited; human frame; animates
(Ch 4) Friedrich Nietzsche: “sometimes you stare into the …, and sometimes the … stares … at …”
Victor is having such a moment
void; void; back; you
(Ch 4) Victor feels it’s necessary to stare deeply at …, which isn’t a problem for him because his parents taught him not to be afraid of the …
death; supernatural
(Ch 4) … became Victor’s sole occupation
natural philosophy (chem)
(Ch 4) .. years passed in which Victor was studying, and did not pay a visit to Geneva
2
(Ch 4) in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for … and … according to Victor
discovery; wonder
(Ch 4) Victor made some discoveries about the … which made him a man of great esteem and admiration at the university
improvement of some chemical instruments
(Ch 4) decided to dedicate himself more to the branches of natural philosophy which related to
physiology
(Ch 4) for victor, a churchyard was merely a … of …
receptacle; bodies deprived of lifw
(Ch 4) Victor states that he was like the … who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life
Arabian
(Ch 4) Victor decided to make a human of about … feet in height
eight
(Ch 4) Victor thought that perhaps in time he could … where death had apparently devoted the body to …
renew life; corruption
(Ch 4) Victor used …, … from … to make his person
clay; bones; charnel-houses
(Ch 4) Victor’s father sent him a letter stating that Victor must pardon him for believing that his … in correspondence is proof that Victor is … his other …
interruption; neglecting; duties
(Ch 4) according to Victor, a human in perfect ought always to preserve a … and … mind, and never allow … or … to disturb his tranquility
calm; peaceful; passion; desire
(Ch 4) Victor became oppressed by a … and became …
fever; nervous
(Ch 5) Victor finished his work on a night in
November
(Ch 5) Victor saw the … of the creature open
dull yellow eye
(Ch 5) after its eye opened, the creature then … hard and …
breathed; convulsed
(Ch 5) the creature’s .. skin barely covered his … and …, his hair was of a lustrous …, and flowing; his teeth were of a …, but according to Victor this beauty only made a horrid contrast with his … eyes
yellow; muscles; arteries; black; pearly whiteness; watery
(Ch 5) the creature had a shrivelled complexion and straight black
lips
(Ch 5) Victor had a dream of Elizabeth …, and turning into the … of his …
dying; corpse; dead mother
(Ch 5) Victor woke up and saw the creature who muttered inarticulate sounds as a … wrinkled his cheeks
grin
(Ch 5) Victor runs away. He says that a … revived from death would not be so ugly, and that the creature was something that not even … could have conceived of
mummy; Dante
(Ch 5) at … in the morning, Victor begins to walk to ease his mind, when he passes by an inn where he sees a … coach, containing …
six; Swiss; Henry Clerval
(Ch 5) When Clerval and Victor get to his apartment, Victor goes up first and pushes the door open as a child would, and doesn’t find the creature. He becomes so happy and … for joy
claps
(Ch 5) Victor jumps over …, … his hands, and … aloud, frightening Clerval. But then, he imagined that the monster … him and fell down in a …
chairs; claps; laughs; seized; fit
(Ch 5) Victor had a … that confined him for several months. the whole time, … attended to him.
fever; Clerval
(Ch 5) Clerval did not inform Victor’s family that he was sick, to avoid causing them
distress
(Ch 5) Clerval tells Victor that … sent him a ..
Elizabeth; letter
(Ch 5) On 5th day, God created …, and in Chapter V, … comes to …
living creatures; creature; life
(Ch 5) This is the … chapter Shelley wrote
first
(Ch 5) “collected the … of …” –> refers to … and …
instruments; life; body parts; blood
(Ch 5) creature comes to life by … and …
breathing hard; convulsing
(Ch 5) one of the few physical descriptions of creature;
skin pulled .., … with …, …
his horrifying qualities mixed with his beauty is …, his … are most disturbing
taut; yellow; decay; translucent; disquieting; eyes
(Ch 5) endeavor to make creature took … years, but then he makes it, … away, and goes to … –> wants a few moments of …, pretend it never …, but his … prevent this
two; runs; sleep; forgetfulness; happened; nightmares
(Ch 5) dreams of … in .., he … her and her lips … and he finds himself holding the body of …
Elizabeth; Ingolstadt; kisses; decay; his dead mother
(Ch 5) he has just bestowed life upon body parts from people he didn’t care about, but his mother is also … and he wouldn’t wanna do that to her
dead
(Ch 5) Elizabeth turning into Caroline relates to idea that she is … as …, and that Caroline got … from Elizabeth –> also exhibits Victor’s confusion about … wrapped in …, and these are the two women responsible for him
taking her place; mom; sick; romance; responsibility
(Ch 5) when he wakes up, Victor is .., his body appears .. because of the moon and he .. awake –> … moment, he looks like the … he made
cold; yellow; convulses; doppelganger; creature
(Ch 5) creature is standing before him, and he … out his … –> resembles painting …, in which Adam .. to God and God … back in full … of his creation
stretches; hand; The Creation; reaches out; reaches; embrace
(Ch 5) but Victor … from his creation, thinking creature was trying to … him
where God is in the painting, The Creation, it looks like … –> God is ultimate … and …
runs away; seize; human brain; consciousness; intellect
(Ch 5) problem with what Victor has done: creature knows his …, simply wants to … his creator, but Victor rejects him, and the creature has …
creator; touch; consciousness
(Ch 5) Jean-Paul Sarte + Soren Kierkegaard wrote … and …, respectively
Sarte was … and Kierkegaard was …
Being and Nothingness; Either/Or; French; Danish
(Ch 5) Sarte and Kierkegaard are the fathers of …, a philosophical theory that emphasizes existence of …, their … and ability to … their own life through … of … –> Victor has created something with all of these attributes
existentialism; individual; freedom; develop; acts; will
(Ch 5) solipsism: the idea that only … is sure to exist
one’s own mind
(Ch 5) solipsism: the only thing is one's ... to be true solipsist is to accept the ... of ... greatest test for solipsist is to ... being solipsistic --> .... solus = ... + ipse = ...
consciousness; responsibilities; God; meet another solipsist; arrogance; alone; self
(Ch 5) existentialism: …’s idea –> .. precedes …, that you are independently .., .., and … being, you are not …, …, or … you fit –> Victor made someone that has this problem
Kierkegaard’s; existence; essence; acting; responsible; conscious; labels; stereotypes; roles
(Ch 5) The Absurd (…’s idea)–> no … to be found in the world beyond what … we impose on it - essentially … and …
Sarte’s; meaning; meaning; unfair; absurd
(Ch 5) The Absurd –> … occurs when we run out of meaning to give the world
existential crisis
(Ch 5) existence precedes essence: the most important consideration for the individual is that he or she is an
individual
(Ch 5) Facticity (…’s idea) –> a human is always of its …, …, and … at all times and cannot … any of these 3 stages
Kierkegaard’s; past; present; future
(Ch 5) facticity:
time is an …
freedom is … because you can’t be anything other than what you …, …, and …
we are mostly a … that never was until it was and one that will never be again –> most of what we are is …, but we learn to regard things with …
illusion; limited; were; are; will be; thought; nonexistence; meaning
(Ch 5) authenticity: degree to which an individual is faithful to … despite …
a person who ignores crucial info about themselves in order to avoid …, is …
this was …’s idea
their own self; external forces; uncomfortable truths; inauthentic; Sarte’s
