chapter 3.1

Question 1

‘day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to geneva’

Answer 1

temporal deixis

feels like he has to create a female

Question 2

‘without any wish that she might become your wife’

Answer 2

thinks frankenstein doesn’t want to marry elizabeth

emphasises frankenstein’s isolation - no counterpart, similar to the creature

secretive - transgression stops him from moving forward

Question 3

‘this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck, and bowing me to the ground’

Answer 3

albatross

suffocation of secrets

Question 4

‘a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances, which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention’

Answer 4

nurturing role

the creature doesn’t have this

Question 5

'’wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful?

Answer 5

doppelganger

Question 6

‘i have seen… the most beautiful scenes of my own country ; i have visited the lakes of lucerne and uri, where the snowy mountain descend almost perpendicularly’

Answer 6

clerval appreciates nature, frankenstein wants to dominate it

what frankenstein should’ve been and could’ve been

uncanny - forced to confront it