Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

English 12H > Ch. 1-3 Frankenstein (Cont.) > Flashcards

Ch. 1-3 Frankenstein (Cont.) Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
Q

(Ch. 1) Victor’s father:

A

Alfons

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

(Ch. 1) Victor’s parents’ marriage built out of

A

sense of responsibility

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

(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 …

A

pride; benevolence; heaven; responsibility

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

(Ch. 1) Victor understands that his parents felt responsible for his … and …

A

existence; happiness

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

(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 …

A

more attractive; intuition; intuition; mind; secret self

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

(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 …

A

giving him a gift; owning a person; romance; responsibility

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

(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 …

A

together; nature why; curiosity; contentment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

(Ch. 2) Henry Clerval:
interested in … and …
… are his mentor

A

danger; excitement; Arthurian legends

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

(Ch. 2) Arthurian legends:
…, knights of … –> roundness shows …, shows that Clerval values ideals of … and people … for the …, he’s an … man

A

Camelot; round table; equality; equality; working together; common good; honorable

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

(Ch. 2) Elizabeth loves the …, Henry loves …, and Victor loves …, which are impossible to ..

A

world; people; secrets of Heaven; attain

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

(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 “…”

A

raining; old book; breaks; narrative frames; breaking the 4th wall;

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

(Ch. 2) 4th wall separates … from …, Mary’s life is now …

A

you; story; this book

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

(Ch. 2) natural philosophy:

A

chemistry

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

(Ch. 2) warning from Victor’s …: don’t pursue …

A

father; chemistry

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

(Ch. 2) galvanism: creation of … through … means

alchemy: search for turning everyday items into …

A

electricity; chemical; gold

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

(Ch. 2) warning of do not read now has come from 2 sources: … and …

A

Alfons; the stranger

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

(Ch. 2) chimerical:

  1. chimera: creature that has the … of a …, … of a …, and … of a … (from …)
  2. chimera: something you …, but ….
A

head; lion; body; goat; tail; serpent; Greek mythology; desperately want; cannot have

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

(Ch. 2) a chimera (the lion, goat, serpent hybrid) is like ….: …, … of …

A

the creature; monsters; assemblages; parts

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

(Ch. 2) Victor has … problem (definition 2)

A

chimerical

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

(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 …

A

dissect; anatomise; names; origin; nature; citadel; knowledge

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

(Ch. 2) citadel:

A

huge library

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

(Ch. 2) Victor’s first impulse: … pursuit to save humans from .. so the only kind of … would be a … one. Like Walton, Victor imagines ….

A

noble; illness; death; violent; glory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

(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 …

A

raising the dead; inexperienced

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

(Ch. 2) fire is significant because …, and fire causes his ….
Victor fixates on the … during the storm, not the …

A

Prometheus stole fire; eternal punishment; fire; lightning

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

(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 …

A

chemist; betrayed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

(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 …

A

souls; crossroads; fate

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

(Ch. 2) Victor again receives the same warning: do not pursue … by …

A

knowledge; reading

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

(Ch. 3) Elizabeth is Caroline’s … –> she attends to Elizabeth and ….

A

favorite; gets sick

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

(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 …

A

get married; mother; young siblings

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

(Ch. 3) Caroline’s death relates to Mary’s mother’s death, .. bears some of Mary’s character

A

Elizabeth

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

(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 …

A

cursed; lead to his destruction; merchant; mother

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

(Ch. 3) Victor meets … who makes him dislike natural philosophy even more

A

M. Krempe

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

(Ch. 3) but then Victor meets …, who … his interest

A

M. Waldman; rekindles

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

(Ch. 3) Waldman combines Victor’s … in … with ….

A

early interests; ancient scientists; modern chemists

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

(Ch. 3) According to Waldman, modern chemists are discovering the …, which is a worthwhile endeavor –> this affirms early part of Victor’s life

A

secrets of nature

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

(Ch 4) Victor says his interest has been … and focused on …, particularly, what … us

A

reignited; human frame; animates

37
Q

(Ch 4) Friedrich Nietzsche: “sometimes you stare into the …, and sometimes the … stares … at …”
Victor is having such a moment

A

void; void; back; you

38
Q

(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 …

A

death; supernatural

39
Q

(Ch 4) … became Victor’s sole occupation

A

natural philosophy (chem)

40
Q

(Ch 4) .. years passed in which Victor was studying, and did not pay a visit to Geneva

A

2

41
Q

(Ch 4) in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for … and … according to Victor

A

discovery; wonder

42
Q

(Ch 4) Victor made some discoveries about the … which made him a man of great esteem and admiration at the university

A

improvement of some chemical instruments

43
Q

(Ch 4) decided to dedicate himself more to the branches of natural philosophy which related to

A

physiology

44
Q

(Ch 4) for victor, a churchyard was merely a … of …

A

receptacle; bodies deprived of lifw

45
Q

(Ch 4) Victor states that he was like the … who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life

A

Arabian

46
Q

(Ch 4) Victor decided to make a human of about … feet in height

A

eight

47
Q

(Ch 4) Victor thought that perhaps in time he could … where death had apparently devoted the body to …

A

renew life; corruption

48
Q

(Ch 4) Victor used …, … from … to make his person

A

clay; bones; charnel-houses

49
Q

(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 …

A

interruption; neglecting; duties

50
Q

(Ch 4) according to Victor, a human in perfect ought always to preserve a … and … mind, and never allow … or … to disturb his tranquility

A

calm; peaceful; passion; desire

51
Q

(Ch 4) Victor became oppressed by a … and became …

A

fever; nervous

52
Q

(Ch 5) Victor finished his work on a night in

A

November

53
Q

(Ch 5) Victor saw the … of the creature open

A

dull yellow eye

54
Q

(Ch 5) after its eye opened, the creature then … hard and …

A

breathed; convulsed

55
Q

(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

A

yellow; muscles; arteries; black; pearly whiteness; watery

56
Q

(Ch 5) the creature had a shrivelled complexion and straight black

A

lips

57
Q

(Ch 5) Victor had a dream of Elizabeth …, and turning into the … of his …

A

dying; corpse; dead mother

58
Q

(Ch 5) Victor woke up and saw the creature who muttered inarticulate sounds as a … wrinkled his cheeks

A

grin

59
Q

(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

A

mummy; Dante

60
Q

(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 …

A

six; Swiss; Henry Clerval

61
Q

(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

A

claps

62
Q

(Ch 5) Victor jumps over …, … his hands, and … aloud, frightening Clerval. But then, he imagined that the monster … him and fell down in a …

A

chairs; claps; laughs; seized; fit

63
Q

(Ch 5) Victor had a … that confined him for several months. the whole time, … attended to him.

A

fever; Clerval

64
Q

(Ch 5) Clerval did not inform Victor’s family that he was sick, to avoid causing them

A

distress

65
Q

(Ch 5) Clerval tells Victor that … sent him a ..

A

Elizabeth; letter

66
Q

(Ch 5) On 5th day, God created …, and in Chapter V, … comes to …

A

living creatures; creature; life

67
Q

(Ch 5) This is the … chapter Shelley wrote

A

first

68
Q

(Ch 5) “collected the … of …” –> refers to … and …

A

instruments; life; body parts; blood

69
Q

(Ch 5) creature comes to life by … and …

A

breathing hard; convulsing

70
Q

(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

A

taut; yellow; decay; translucent; disquieting; eyes

71
Q

(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

A

two; runs; sleep; forgetfulness; happened; nightmares

72
Q

(Ch 5) dreams of … in .., he … her and her lips … and he finds himself holding the body of …

A

Elizabeth; Ingolstadt; kisses; decay; his dead mother

73
Q

(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

A

dead

74
Q

(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

A

taking her place; mom; sick; romance; responsibility

75
Q

(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

A

cold; yellow; convulses; doppelganger; creature

76
Q

(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

A

stretches; hand; The Creation; reaches out; reaches; embrace

77
Q

(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 …

A

runs away; seize; human brain; consciousness; intellect

78
Q

(Ch 5) problem with what Victor has done: creature knows his …, simply wants to … his creator, but Victor rejects him, and the creature has …

A

creator; touch; consciousness

79
Q

(Ch 5) Jean-Paul Sarte + Soren Kierkegaard wrote … and …, respectively
Sarte was … and Kierkegaard was …

A

Being and Nothingness; Either/Or; French; Danish

80
Q

(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

A

existentialism; individual; freedom; develop; acts; will

81
Q

(Ch 5) solipsism: the idea that only … is sure to exist

A

one’s own mind

82
Q 
(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 = ...
A

consciousness; responsibilities; God; meet another solipsist; arrogance; alone; self

83
Q

(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

A

Kierkegaard’s; existence; essence; acting; responsible; conscious; labels; stereotypes; roles

84
Q

(Ch 5) The Absurd (…’s idea)–> no … to be found in the world beyond what … we impose on it - essentially … and …

A

Sarte’s; meaning; meaning; unfair; absurd

85
Q

(Ch 5) The Absurd –> … occurs when we run out of meaning to give the world

A

existential crisis

86
Q

(Ch 5) existence precedes essence: the most important consideration for the individual is that he or she is an

A

individual

87
Q

(Ch 5) Facticity (…’s idea) –> a human is always of its …, …, and … at all times and cannot … any of these 3 stages

A

Kierkegaard’s; past; present; future

88
Q

(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 …

A

illusion; limited; were; are; will be; thought; nonexistence; meaning

89
Q

(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

A

their own self; external forces; uncomfortable truths; inauthentic; Sarte’s

English 12H (37 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions