Frankenstein Context

Question 1

Who wrote paradise lost

Answer 1

John milton, was about the fall of man

Question 2

What character relates to paradise lost

Answer 2

The monster

Question 3

Quote from paradise lost

Answer 3

“I ought to be thy adam but rather i am the fallen angel”

Question 4

The modern prometheus

Answer 4

Prometheus stole fire from zeus and gave it to humankind and zeus nailed him to a mountain and had an eagle eat his liver everyday as an eternal punishment.

Question 5

What is shelley’s didactic message via the modern prometheus?

Answer 5

Shelley uses this perhaps to warn humans of rapid scientific advancement

Question 6

Robert Mclure

Answer 6

British explorer stuck in ice for 4 years in the arctic.

Question 7

The sublime was created by…

Answer 7

Edmund Burke

Question 8

Rime of the ancient mariner

Answer 8

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, man shoots an albatross and his ship becomes cursed.

Question 9

What was Shelley’s intention of the intertextual reference to Rime of The Ancient Mariner?

Answer 9

To warn of the dangers of attempting to usurp nature.

Question 10

Shelley’s childhood

Answer 10

Mary wollstonecroft was a proto-feminist ‘a vindication on the rights of women’ and her father was a political philospher, william godwin.

Question 11

What did Mary and Percy Shelley face?

Answer 11

They faced ostracism due to their relationship, constant debt and the death of their premature baby daughter.

Question 12

Tabula Rasa

Answer 12

The theory that everyone is born with a ‘blank slate’, nature vs nurture argument. Created by John Locke

Question 13

What quote can we link to the Tabula Rasa?

Answer 13

‘Innocent and helpless creature’

Question 14

Physiognomy

Answer 14

Pseudo- science, persons character determined by their outward appearance. Popular in the 19th century.

Question 15

What authors made use of physiognomic description?

Answer 15

Hardy, Dickens, Oscar Wilde.

Question 16

Galvinism: Luigi Galvini

Answer 16

Investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780’s and 90’s.

Question 17

Aldini: Giovanni Aldini

Answer 17

The nephew of Galvani, ran electric current through deceased criminal George Foster in 1803.

Question 18

When was first blood transfusion performed because of Aldini?

Answer 18

1818

Question 19

Grave Robbing

Answer 19

18th and 19th century, people stole bodies and sold them to the med schools in London and Edinburgh.

Question 20

When was the Murder Act passed?

Answer 20

1752

Question 21

The industrial revolution

Answer 21

Period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

Question 22

Shelleys life

Answer 22

Her parents hoped for a boy.
Father rejected her because of her relationship with already married Percy Shelley.

Question 23

What did Shelley dream 4 days after Clara died?

Answer 23

She har revived her.

Question 24

The French Revolution

Answer 24

Began in 1789 as a result of food shortages and exploitation.

Question 25

Did the romantics support the FR

Answer 25

yes, as they believed it would alleviate some of the suffering of the poor, they later abandoned the cause as it descended into violence and corruption.

Question 26

What book did Mary Shelley’s father write?

Answer 26

‘An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice’

Question 27

The sublime is the belief that…

Answer 27

Nature possesses the most powerful emotions within people.

Question 28

What did John Locke write?

Answer 28

Essay concerning human understanding, 1689