Ch. 15-17 Frankenstein Flashcards
(ch. 15) Creature comes upon a …
leather portmanteau
(ch. 15) portmanteau can be a big …, but it also describes a word formed by … the … of other words
the word portmanteau is an … of …
leather box; smushing; sounds; assemblage; words
(ch. 15) creature finds … and … in the portmanteau
clothes; books
(ch. 15) Sorrows of Werter: an … novel, which is a book composed of …
epistolary; letters
(ch. 15) sorrows of werter was written by …, who is essentially the German Shakespeare, in the year …
It would have been a … at the time Frankenstein is written
Goethe; 1774; recent classic
(ch. 15) Werter is young, sensitive … who fell in love with a girl named … and finds out she is already … He moves away and realized that he’s lost everything by doing so, so he returns to his town, coincidentally on the day of … He decides that one of them must die. He befriends her husband and borrows … from him and … and … attends his funeral
artist; Charlotte; engaged; Charlotte’s wedding; 2 guns; kills himself; nobody
(ch. 15) Sorrows of Werter is a story of a man so … that he chooses to …
alienated; kill himself
(ch. 15) Plutarch’s Lives of the …:
significantly older than Sorrows of Werter, massive endeaver, first of its kind
finding out what all of … and … had in common in terms of … and …
Noble Greeks and Romans; ROman emperors; Grecian leaders; virtues; failures
(ch. 15) purpose of Plutarch’s Lives is to … people, serve as … and …
guide; history; instruction
(ch. 15) Plutarch’s lives serves as instruction and warning for future rules –> works like a
monster
(ch. 15) Paradise Lost: about Satan airing his … with God –> wondering why God …, asks how … God is to make angels who …
grievance; made him; arrogant; worship him
(ch. 15) God of Paradise Lost gives Satan … as a gift because he wants Satan to be happy
reference: when creature calls something Pandemonium–> this is the place where the … are held in this book
Hell; devils
(ch. 15) Paradise Lost is about …’s struggle with ..
creation’s; creator
(ch. 15) The 3 books creature finds resemble his
life
(ch. 15) creature gets his understanding of love from …, as well as his understanding of …
he comes to see love as essentially …
sorrows of werter; compassion; unrequited
(ch. 15) the more the creature reads, the more he realizes that he is
like people
(ch. 15) creature has a … moment –> he can relate to people’s …, but he … alone
duality; feelings; exists
(ch. 15) reading allows creature to engage in a …,has the same benefits as real interaction
community
(ch. 15) From Plutarch’s lives, creature learnds the difference between … and …, he learns … understanding, and the difference between … and …
right; wrong; moral; virtue; vice
(ch. 15) creature read the 3 books as if they were … –> regards them as …
nonfiction; fact
(ch. 15) creature believes in God’s existence, but as a matter of …, not of …
sees in Paradise Lost that creators go to .. with their creations
omnipotent means …
fact; faith; war; all powerful
(ch. 15) creature knows he has full power to … Victor
Victor is neither … nor … –> creature realizes that Victor is subject to a different …
destroy; omnipotent; omniscient; God
(ch. 15) creature never makes an appeal to
Victor’s GOd
(ch. 15) creature wants to relate to …, but the only thing they have in common is that after they’re created, they are the only ones …
Adam; like them
(ch. 15) creature realizes that his relationship with Victor is more like God’s relationship with … –> identifies his nature with …
Satan; evil
(ch. 15) when creature reads Paradise Lost, he realizes that, like Satan, he is an emblem of … –> as … and … as Satan
evil; dejected; unwanted
(ch. 15) In a way, Victor has made creature in his … –> creature is made of … parts, made of things that …, as Victor will one day
image; human; died
(ch. 15) creature realizes that Satan had an …, but he is completely …
army; alone
(ch. 15) creature realizes that Satan had an …, but he is completely alone
army
(ch. 15) creature decides he will talk to the cottagers, because they are good people who fight against …
injustice
(ch. 15) creature has no … to stop him from making …
Eve; bad decisions
(ch. 15) creature is speaking …, and has a … accent
there is no official language of Switzerland
French; French
(ch. 15) Victor is translating the creature’s account for Walton from … to … –> explains use of “…,” a French word
French; English; portmanteau
(ch. 15) creature’s having “how are … with” moment
De Lacey is assuring him that most people are not …
strangers dealt; prejudiced
(Ch. 16) creature’s … and his desire for … keeps him from committing suicide after De Laceys’ rejection
rage; revenge
(Ch. 16) creature declares war upon all … for its … and …
mankind; callousness; cruelty
(Ch. 16) creature vows to exact … upon his creator, who sent him into this misery
revenge
(Ch. 16) the creature longs to spread … and … around him and enjoy the ruin
havoc; destruction
(Ch. 16) with the arrival of morning, the creature allows himself to hope that he can still endear himself to the …, and thereby make … with his …
elder De Lacey; peace; children
(Ch. 16) when creature returns to the cottage, however, he finds that it is … He waits until Felix finally appears with a strange man. He finds out that the De Laceys decided to … out of … that he would return
empty; leave the cottage; fear
(Ch. 16) The creature cannot believe that his protectors have … him
abandoned
(Ch. 16) The next morning, the creature is overcome with fury and he … the cottage in order to give vent to his anger
burns down the cottage
(Ch. 16) The creature decides to travel to … in order to revenge himself upon his creator. The journey is long and arduous, esp with his little knowledge about geography. He primarily travels at …, in order to avoid …
Geneva; night; disovery
(Ch. 16) He permits himself to travel during daylight on one of the first days in the spring . The warmth soothes him, and the sunlight revives some of his former …, and for a few moments he “…”
gentleness; dares to be happy
(Ch. 16) A young girl comes running through the forest and he hides himself beneath a cypress tree. She suddenly stumbles and falls into the rapidly moving …, the creature leaps in and … her. As he attempts to … her, a peasant snatches the girl away from him and … the creature
water; rescues; revive; shoots
(Ch. 16) After he is shot, the creature bitterly contemplates this … for his benevolence, and his … for humanity grows
reward; hatred
(Ch. 16) He arrives in Geneva and sees a child running past his hiding place in the woods. He is taken with the child’s beauty and speculates that he is too young to feel… for his deformity. He seizes the boy’s arm and the child … and … to …, calling the creature a “…” and saying that his father, …, will punish him.
hatred; screams; struggles; get away; hideous monster; M. Frankenstein
(Ch. 16) Upon hearing the name Frankenstein, the creature … the boy, and feels “…” at his death, reflecting that his creator is not …
strangles; hellish triumph; invulnerable
(Ch. 16) The creature takes the necklace with Caroline’s picture and is in awe of her .., but then he becomes furious, because he realizes that no one would ever look at him with the … he sees in Caroline’s eyes
beauty; kindness
(Ch. 16) Seeking a hiding place, creature enters a barn and finds Justine sleeping there. He is in awe with her beauty too and decides that she should suffer too since he will never experience … He places the portrait of Caroline in her dress, stating that she, not he, would suffer … for the murder.
love; punishment
(Ch. 16) The creature thinks that is the inaccessible … of people like Justine that caused him to …, so it is only fair that she would atone for the crime
beauty; kill William
(Ch. 16) the creature command Frankenstein to make him a … of the same … and of the same … so that he wouldn’t be alone
companion; species; defects
(Ch. 17) Victor initially refuses to create a … for the creature, arguing that their “…” would be enough to destroy the world.
female companion; joint wickedness
(Ch. 17) The creature replies to Victor’s refusal by saying that he is only malicious because he is …, and that if he is met with hatred he can only respond in …, appealing to Victor for … and asking Frankenstein to provide him with a lover to share in his suffering
miserable; kind; sympathy
(Ch. 17) The creature states that if Victor complies, he would quit the … forever
company of mankind
(Ch. 17) Victor sees the justness in creature’s argument, and though he feels compassion, the loathsomeness of his appearance replaces his sympathy with … and …
horror; hatred
(Ch. 17) creature continues to argue, saying that his vices are the children of a … and that in the company of another creature, his virtues would come forth, and he would become linked to the chain of … and …
forced solitude; existence; events
(Ch. 17) Victor is torn, thinking about the creature’s … and the destruction he might cause. But he determines to … with his request in order to … and …
supernatural strength; comply; save his family; humanity
(Ch. 17) the creature says he will anxiously … Victor’s … and then leaves. Victor descends the mountain with a …, and returns to Geneva haggard
observe; progress; heavy heart
(Ch. 16) The evening of the rejection, the creature goes into the woods and gave vent to his anguish in … like a …
fearful howlings; wild beast
(Ch. 16) the creature couldn’t sleep because he kept dreaming of the … of the …
events; preceding day
(Ch. 16) The creature had learned some geography from
the lessons that Felix gave Safie
(Ch. 16) the creature went to Victor, because from him he hoped for .., …, and …, seeking …
aid; pity; redress; justice
(Ch. 16) creature was shot in the
shoulder
(Ch. 16) creature vowed daily for
revenge
(Ch. 16) … after he was shot, he reached Geneva
two months
(Ch. 16) creature says that the divine benignity of someone like Caroline would change into … and … if she saw him
disgust; fear
(Ch. 16) Creature says that he learned to work mischief from the … and the … of man
lessons of Felix; sanguinary laws
(Ch. 17) creature demands that Victor specifically make him a …, and calls it a … which he must not refuse to concede
female; right
(Ch. 17) creature says that if he cannot inspire love, he will cause …, particularly toward his creator, who he calls his …
fear; arch-enemy
(Ch. 17) Victor says that creature’s tale, and the feelings he expressed, proved him to be a creature of
fine sensations
(Ch. 17) creature says that if victor makes him a female he will go to the … of …, and will eat … and …, and will sleep upon …
vast wilds; South America; acorns; berries; dried leaves
(Ch. 17) creature says that the love of another would destroy the
cause of his crimes
(Ch. 17) Victor says that he will make creature a female so long as he vows to
quit Europe
(Ch. 17) After promising to make the creature a companion, on his way home, Victor …
weeps bitterly
(Ch. 17) Victor returns home, and his family is alarmed by his haggard and … appearance. Victor does not speak, and says that he felt as if he were placed under a …, as if he had no right to claim their …, as if he would never more enjoy their …
wild; ban; sympathies; companionship
