Frankenstein

Question 1

Who made the book?

Answer 1

Mary Shelley

Question 2

When was the book made?

Answer 2

1817

Question 3

Context

Answer 3

• Mother was feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her mother died a week after her death
• Married to Percy Bysshe Shelley but drowned 1822 a
• 1 out of 4 Mary Shelley’s children survived into adulthood
• Galvani = Used electrical currents through frogs to cause them to move after they are dead
• Aldini = He electrically stimulated a dead body of a criminal which cause the body to move and twitch and open eyes
• Mary Shelley created when visiting the Swiss Alps whilst telling stories.
• The Modern Prometheus

Question 4

“Knowledge and wisdom, as I once did…the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been”

Answer 4

• Frankenstein
• Dangers of Science
• A dire warning. Redeem himself from the sins he has committed. Dangers of science.
• Biblical serpent represents temptation. A devil that tempted Adam and Eve. Very clear warning.

Question 5

“I am an abortion”

Answer 5

• The monster

Question 6

“I was their plaything and their idol and something better”

Answer 6

• Frankenstein

- Ambition and Family

Question 7

“I am thy creature: I ought to be Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”

Answer 7

• The monster

- Rejection and Loneliness

Question 8

“A new species would bless me as its creator”

Answer 8

• Frankenstein

Question 9

“fate - would destroy me”

Answer 9

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Question 10

“satan had his fellow companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him”

Answer 10

• The monster

Question 11

“For this I had deprived myself of rest and health”

Answer 11

• Frankenstein

Question 12

“accursed creator! Why did you form a monster hideous that even you turned from me in disgust”

Answer 12

• The monster

Question 13

“Became my desire to claim their protection and kindness .. and loved by these amiable creatures”

Answer 13

• The monster

Question 14

“acquired new and almost unlimited powers”

Answer 14

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Question 15

Opening Paragraph

Answer 15

The monster in Frankenstein lurches into life as prodigious and as men but as ignorant as a new born. It was the acquisition of the language along with the eloquence it brings that turns the monster from a mysterious nightmare into a sympathetic and tragic figure.
- Shelley invites to assume the monsters insides matches the outside`