Critical opinions

Question 1

There is a distinct

Answer 1

“There is a distinct lack of closure to Frankenstein” - Ray Cluey NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE

Question 2

Victor…an outside

Answer 2

“Victor…an outsider by choice, and thus so very different from the creature of his making” - Ray Cluey ISOLATION

Question 3

Victor also embodies

Answer 3

Victor also embodies the romantic rebelliousness towards accepted modes of thought -Ray Cluey ROMANTICISM

Question 4

Ray Cluley on isolation

Answer 4

“From the onset…it is clear that isolation and solitude are to be the main concerns of the novel” - Ray Cluey ISOLATION

Question 5

an analysis

Answer 5

“…an analysis of the dangers attendant on an exclusively intellectual approach to society” - Dr Mike Rossington, SCIENCE(?)

Question 6

It is the actions

Answer 6

“It is the actions done to it that drive it to destruction” - Dr Mike Rossington MONSTROSITY

Question 7

Love is at

Answer 7

“Love is at the heart of the (creature’s) tale” - Dr Mike Rossington THE CREATURE

Question 8

A manipulating intermediary

Answer 8

“A manipulating intermediary who is, perhaps, anxious to justify his own internal monstrosity” - Jane Bathard Smith NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE AND VICTOR

Question 9

There is much

Answer 9

“There is much that is unmonstrous about the creature” - Jane Bathard Smith MONSTROSITY

Question 10

The creature blames

Answer 10

“The creature blames his eventual internal monstrosity on his physical appearance, suggesting a powerful interplay between the two” - Jane Bathard Smith MONSTROSITY

Question 11

The novel is

Answer 11

“The Novel is a critique: it explores passive, independent women who, like the creature, must then be rejected” -Kate Ellis FEMALES

Question 12

Correspondence among the

Answer 12

…correspondence among the various narrators…which will support a sort of blind faith in the tale” - Mary A Favret on narrative unreliability

Question 13

Victors vaunting ambition

Answer 13

“Victor’s vaunting ambition defies God as creator of man. His good intentions become clouded by his own vanity” - Jane Blumberg AMBITION

Question 14

His ambition blocks

Answer 14

“His ambition blocks out his entire family” - Jane Blumberg AMBITION

Question 15

The novel cam

Answer 15

The novel can be read as a critique of the family as much as a longing for one – Marie Mulvey Roberts FAMILY

Question 16

Most debates about

Answer 16

Most debates about the cause of the creature’s destructive behaviour attribute it either to his isolation and maltreatment, or to his unnatural origin – Marie Mulvey Roberts CREATURE

Question 17

Outrageous …

Answer 17

Outrageous improbability – Edinburgh Magazine 1818 NARRATIVE UNRELIABILITY

Question 18

Gross and

Answer 18

“Gross and obvious inconsistencies” – Literary panorama and national register (1818) NARRATIVE UNRELIABILITY

Question 19

As a result of

Answer 19

As a result of the framed narrative)…”He [the creature] is given a voice… this invites the reader to sympathise with the creature” – Monique R morgan FRAMED NARRATIVE

Question 20

An illusory promise of

Answer 20

“[An] illusory promise of stable moral judgments is offered by the novel’s technique of embedded narratives” …”Victor’s reaction to the creature’s story is itself ambivalent, and hence fails to offer the reader a clear model (embedded narrative” (Monique R Morgan) Embedded narrative