Ch. 9-13 Frankenstein Flashcards
(ch. 9) Victor is … –> the only thing keeping him alive is his … of … toward his family
suicidal; sense; responsibility
(ch. 9) Elizabeth now despises …. because of Justine’s … –> taking delight in anything would be …, she regards men as …
world; death; sacrilege to dead; bloodthirsty monsters
(ch. 10) Victor is wondering why people feel … to … –> beings that don’t have … and …
superior; brute animals; human reasoning; consciousness
(ch. 10) Quote in this chapter is from …’s poem called …
Percy Shelley; Mutability
(ch. 10) Shelley’s Mutability is about how we constantly endeavor to …, but sleep is ruined by … and days are ruined by …. –> the only thing consistent about human nature is that we are subject to …
keep things the same; bad dreams; bad thoughts; terrible change
(ch. 10) mutability:
change
(ch. 10) Victor confirms that the creature is in Switzerland –> creature likely looks wild after … with no care
2 years
(ch. 10) Creature replies to Victor, saying “How dare you .. thus with …?”
sport; life
(ch. 10) Creature tells Victor to do his … and the creature will do his –> creature is … and …: if Victor doesn’t take responsibility for what he made, … will be wrought
duty; warning; instructing; destruction
(ch. 10) creature has natural inclination to … before Victor –> by nature, he’s …
lower himself; good
(ch. 10) creature has learned … creation origin –> knows who … and .. are
Judeo-Christian; Adam; Satan
(ch. 10) Creature thinks that God is … to Adam and that the relationship between him and Victor should be the same –> views it as the relationship between … and …
good; man; God
(ch. 10) differences between creature and VIctor:
creature is … and does not stand in … of Victor as … does of …
stronger; awe; man; God
(ch. 10) creature acknowledges that he is now … –> … made him that way
evil; misery
(ch. 10) creature commands Victor to make him … and he will be … as a result
happy; virtuous
(ch. 10) “I am …, and they shall share my …” –> creature
miserable; wretchedness
(ch. 10) Romantic concept: “the … is the father of the …” stated by …
child; man; Wordsworth
(ch. 10) the child is the father of the man: “
as much as your parents made you, your … is what made them … –> giving them one of the most crucial parts of their … (child … parents)
birth; parents; identity; birthing
(ch. 10) creature made Victor … (this is how creature made Victor)
wretched
(ch. 10) creature covers Victor’s … so they can converse because he understands that Victor hates how he …
eyes; looks
(ch. 10) Victor wanders in the valley of …, noting the magnificence of the landscape as well as the disorder and destruction –> there are constant …
Chamonix; avalanches
(ch. 10) Victor climbs to the top of …, a …
Montanvert; glacier
(ch. 10) Victor is filled with sublime ecstasy as he climbs the glacier, but becomes melancholic as he ascends, meditating on the … of human dreams and attachments. He invokes the “..”, asking them to permit him to be happy or bring him to his grave
impermanence; wandering spirits
(ch. 10) The creature threatens to “glut the maw of … with the blood of Victor’s friends”
death
(ch. 10) The creature asks that Frankenstein … and then decide if he would or would not relieve the creature of agony
listen to his story
(ch. 11) For part of his early life, the creature was unable to distinguish between …, …, and …
light; sound; smell
(ch. 11) With the oppressive heat of the countryside, the creature sought refuge in the … near Ingolstadt, where he found shade, but he was … and … He was consoled by … and loved ….
forest; hungry; thirsty; moonlight; birdsong
(ch. 11) the creatures discovered … in the forest
fire
(ch. 11) the people that the creature encounters treat him horribly –> he is pelted with … and beaten with … As a result, he finds himself in a … attached to a …
stones; sticks; hovel; cottage
(ch. 11) The cottage has … inhabitants: an …, a …., and a …
3; old man; young woman; young man
(ch. 12) the creature soon finds that the source of the cottagers’ suffering is …, but they love one another. The young man and woman often …. so that the old man, who is blind, wouldn’t. As such, the creature stops … their … and begins to …. for them sot that the young man, named …, wouldn’t have to
poverty; starve; stealing; food; cut firewood; Felix
(ch. 12) The creature sees his reflection in a … of … and recognizes that he is very … and believes he will never find happiness
pool; water; monstrous
(ch. 12) The creature wishes to learn to … as the cottagers do so that he can reveal to them the beauty of his soul
speak
(ch. 13) A stranger arrives at the house. Felix refers to her as his “…”. Her name is …
sweet Arabian; Safie
(ch. 13) The cottagers are teaching Safie their language and the creature listens in to learn as well. They are teaching her from a book called …, which also provides information about …
Ruins of Empires; history
(ch. 13) Through Ruins of Empires, the creature learns about the …, …, and … of modern Man
manners; governments; religions
(ch. 10) From Montanvert, Victor could see
Mont Blanc
(ch. 10) Victor calls the creature … and ..
Devil; vile insect
(ch. 10) the creature calls Victor his … and …
lord; king
(ch. 10) Victor says that for the first time, he felt what the .. of a creator toward his creature were, and that he ought to try to make the creature … before he complained of his …
duties; happy; wickedness
(ch. 11) to satiate his hunger the creature ate
berries
(ch. 11) The creature would try to express his sensations, but his own voice … him into silence
frightened
(ch. 11) the creature kept the fire burning by placing … on it
wet branches
(ch. 11) the creature tried … berries and nuts, and the berries were ruined but the nuts were made better
roasting
(ch. 11) the first experience with humans that the creature describes is when he went into a … with an old man that ran away screaming. The creature then ate the food in the house
hut
(ch. 11) the creature loved the music coming from the instrument the old man was playing. He says that the old man has … hair and a … countenance
silver; benevolent
(ch. 11) He says that the young man’s eyes were filled with … and …
despondency; sadness
(ch. 12) the creature initially did not understand why the family was miserable, believing that they had a great …, nice …, … and …, as well as each other’s … and believed they needed nothing more
house; clothes; food; fire; affections
(ch. 12) creature calls language a …
godlike science
(ch. 12) the first words the creature learns are …, …, …, and …
fire; milk; bread; wood
(ch. 12) The sister’s name is
Agatha
(ch. 12) Creature also learned the words …, …, and …
good; dearest; unhappy
(ch. 12) creature thought that the cottagers would be the … of his
arbiters; future destiny
(ch. 12) the creature’s spirits are lifted by the arrival of
spring
(ch. 13) the creature compares Safie’s singing to that of a
nightingale
(ch. 13) the creature learned english more … than the Arabian
quickly
(ch. 13) the creature was also learning to
read
(ch. 13) the creature learned of the slothful …, the mental activity of the …, the wars and virtue of the … and of the …
Asiatics; Grecians; Romans; American hemisphere
(ch. 13) When hearing of men’s vice and bloodshed, the creature was filled with … and …
loathing; disgust
(ch. 13) the creature found that one’s … and … made a man esteemed
parentage; financial situation
(ch. 13) the creature learned of the differences of the … and about the .. and … of children, which he compared to his own creation
sexes; birth; growth
