Frankenstein

Question 1

Makes you feel sympathetic towards the monster

Answer 1

• “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion”

- “i ought thy Adam; but rather i am the fallen angel”

Question 2

Shows Victor regrets creating the creature

Answer 2

• ‘The beauty of the dream vanished’

- ‘breathless horror and disgust filled my heart’

Question 3

Shows the monster regrets what he has done

Answer 3

• ‘I have devoted my creator… to misery’

Question 4

Makes you feel unsympathetic towards the monster

Answer 4

• “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph”
• “I will be with you on your wedding”

Question 5

Shows society are scared/horrified by creature

Answer 5

“some fled, some attacked me”

Question 6

Shows the hatred/desire for revenge Victor has for the monster

Answer 6

• ‘Begone vile insect’

- “Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony’

Question 7

Makes you feel sympathetic towards Victor

Answer 7

• “his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.’
• “seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition”

Question 8

Demonstrates Victor’s ambition and obsession

Answer 8

• “a species would bless me as its creator”
• “i was their plaything their idol”
• “pour a torrent of life into our dark world”

Question 9

Shows the hatred/desire for revenge the monster has for Victor

Answer 9

• “Slave…You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!”

- ‘No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species’

Question 10

Makes you feel unsympathetic towards Victor

Answer 10

• ‘I was their plaything and their idol’

- “A new species would bless me as its creator’

Question 11

Shows Victor regrets what he has done to others

Answer 11

• “William, Justine, and Henry-they all died by my hands.”
• ‘I had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart, and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse. …

Question 12

Shows the love the monster has for Victor

Answer 12

• ‘I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel
• ‘Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?
• ‘I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror; I abhorred myself.

Question 13

Shows that isolation/rejection result in cruelty

Answer 13

• ‘Misery made me a fiend’

- “My heart was…susceptible of love and sympathy”

Question 14

Shows Victor blames fate for his situation

Answer 14

“The words of fate, enounced to destroy me.”

Question 15

Shows that beautiful people are accepted in society

Answer 15

Beautiful

Extremely pretty”

‘Angelic’