Frankenstein

Question 1

first victim

Answer 1

“The first hapless victim to my unhallowed arts.”

Question 2

strength of destiny

Answer 2

“Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.”

Question 3

true murderer/worm

Answer 3

“But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom.”

Question 4

Victor tortured over Justine

Answer 4

“The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence.”

Question 5

blot upon this earth

Answer 5

“Endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”

Question 6

archangel/hell

Answer 6

“Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.” (Victor, Chapter 24)

Question 7

spirit/iron

Answer 7

“For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh”

Question 8

emaciated

Answer 8

“My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.”

Question 9

creature - curious about identity, unique and different

Answer 9

“I had never yet seen a being resembling me…What was I?”

Question 10

Victor’s advice to Walton

Answer 10

“Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.” p220

Question 11

Adam

Answer 11

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

Question 12

desired to divine

Answer 12

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

Question 13

sacrifice life for knowledge

Answer 13

“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge.”

Question 14

fear of the creature’s children

Answer 14

“a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth.”

Question 15

Victor and parents, a helpless creature

Answer 15

“I was…their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven.” (Victor about his parents)

Question 16

Elizabeth, rose

Answer 16

“fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.”

Question 17

Creature wants female monster

Answer 17

“You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.”

Question 18

Victor’s possession of Elizabeth

Answer 18

“til death she was to be mine only.”

Question 19

Elizabeth, angelic features

Answer 19

“a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.”

Question 20

creature about reading books

Answer 20

“this was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it.” (the Creature about reading books)

Question 21

penetrate nature

Answer 21

“I have always been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature…I always came away from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.”

Question 22

pursue nature + prometheus

Answer 22

“I pursued nature to her hiding places…to animate the lifeless clay” – prometheus

Question 23

gnashed (and say when)

Answer 23

“Gnashed his/my teeth” (Letter 4, repeated Chapter 8) - Freud

Question 24

desired to divine

Answer 24

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

Question 25

acquisition of knowledge

Answer 25

“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.”

Question 26

apple (too late)

Answer 26

“But the apple was already eaten, and the angel’s arm bared to drive me from all hope”

Question 27

Satan, bitter gall of envy

Answer 27

“Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.”

Question 28

creature’s solitude contrasting satan

Answer 28

“Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.”

Question 29

Victor liking solitude after Justine’s death

Answer 29

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

Question 30

creature, appearance matching his soul

Answer 30

“His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.”

Question 31

early description of the creature once alive

Answer 31

“Its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy demon to whom I had given life.”

Question 32

curiosity/compassion

Answer 32

“determined to listen to his tale. I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.”

Question 33

Victor sometimes feeling compassion towards the creature

Answer 33

“His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him”

Question 34

lightening, lake on fire

Answer 34

“vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire”

Question 35

blasted tree

Answer 35

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul”

Question 36

oak tree on fire (from lightening)

Answer 36

“Streams of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak.”

Question 37

Victor thinking of Elizabeth like an animal

Answer 37

“While I admired her understanding and fancy, I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal”

Question 38

Victor describing the monster, himself from the grave

Answer 38

“my own spirit let loose from the grave…forced to destroy all that was dear to me”

Question 39

Victor, heart and hands

Answer 39

“My heart often sickened at the work of my hands”

Question 40

great crime but guiltless

Answer 40

“I felt as if I had committed some great crime…I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head”

Question 41

Victor, Elizabeth mine, rule of 3

Answer 41

“mine to protect, love and cherish”

Question 42

Elizabeth letter p91

Answer 42

“brother and sister…without desiring a more intimate union” and “do you not love another?”

Question 43

creature malicious miserable

Answer 43

“I am malicious because I am miserable”

Question 44

creature, obey!

Answer 44

“you are my creator but I am your master. Obey!”