Frankenstein - Overall

Question 1

What is the significance of Victor’s name?

Answer 1

Victor means winner

Question 2

Elizabeth is described by Victor from the beginning as beautiful

Answer 2

Her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes

Question 3

This quote about William contrasts with the point when we learn that he has died. It makes us wonder what could have happened to him.

Answer 3

Rosy with health

Question 4

Frankenstein is similar to the poem Paradise Lost. How?

Answer 4

Frankenstein is banished for being different and this leads to him plotting revenge, much like Satan did when banished from heaven.

Question 5

Elizabeth is portrayed as courageous, clever and just when her speech to defend justice is described as this

Answer 5

Simple and powerful appeal

Question 6

Ambition clouded Victor’s thoughts about his experiments until after he had let the monster loose on the world. After he describes thinks on his experiments differently

Answer 6

Unhallowed acts

Question 7

The importance of companionship is seen when Safie returns to Felix

Answer 7

Infused new life into his soul

Question 8

The monsters reflection causes him pain

Answer 8

Despondence and mortification

Question 9

Victor’s gloom is highlighted by Clerval a number of times, such as during this description of Clerval

Answer 9

Enthusiastic imagination

Question 10

Victor Frankenstein spends a lot of time stuck in small places. What does this mean?

Answer 10

These small spaces could signify the mental and physical imprisonment of Victor Frankenstein

Question 11

Victor has a passion for …

Answer 11

Glory

Question 12

Victor has a ……

Answer 12

Thirst for knowledge

Question 13

Elizabeth is shown to be kind by helping Victor

Answer 13

“Subdue” his violent temper

Question 14

The unnatural nature of the monster is shown by Victor’s first description of it.

Answer 14

Demoniacal corpse

Question 15

Victor’s narration causes the reader to be prejudiced against the monster as we hear from Victor first and he continually describes his creation as the…..

Answer 15

Devil

Question 16

Victor is shown to be ambitious in his attitude to science, he wants to do more than……. . This shows he wants to create

Answer 16

Dissect, anatomise and give names

Question 17

What is the significance of the characters spending large quantities of time in large open space?

Answer 17

The large open spaces signify how lonely a character is

Question 18

What is the significance of Justine’s name?

Answer 18

JUSTine, irony

Question 19

The monster is shown to think humans to be the normal ones and him the abnormal one, which is strange because people often think they are normal and everyone else is weird/wrong. It could also show that he is only small compared to whole of humanity

Answer 19

A monster, a blot on the earth

Question 20

Victor’s ambition leads to a…

Answer 20

Child’s blindness

Question 21

Victor is shown that he wants his scientific contributions to be helpful to mankind. This shows that he thinks, during its creation, that his monster will be helpful.

Answer 21

To the solid advantage of mankind

Question 22

Victor believes that Alphonse fulfilled his duties as a father

Answer 22

Active spirit of tenderness

Question 23

Walton’s ambition mean he cannot see the facts, he has a fantasy that…….

Answer 23

Snow and frost are banished

Question 24

What is the significance of Clerval’s name?

Answer 24

The name Clerval can mean that you have depth of mind, but are also logical. Also, Clerval is only known as Clerval, his last name. He also calls Victor by his last name a lot.

Question 25

Despite Victors flaws, Walton describes him with these three quotes

Answer 25

“Celestial spirit”, “divine wanderer”, “never-failing power of judgement”

Question 26

The monster believes William and De Lacey will be this because they are child and blind respectively

Answer 26

Unprejudiced

Question 27

Victor shows that him and Elizabeth have a strong bond

Answer 27

Beautiful and adored companion

Question 28

Frankenstein is similar to The Fall Of Man. HOW?

Answer 28

He is tempted by knowledge like Adam and Eve were by the apple tree. This ends his Paradise-like childhood and makes his adulthood hell.

Question 29

She loves being Genevan and living in Switzerland because of its equality, only for this love to be shattered by Justine’s execution

Answer 29

Our fortunate country

Question 30

Frankenstein is similar to the Latin myth Prometheus. How?

Answer 30

Because Victor rebels against the laws of nature to make an unnatural man. He does this to try and benefit humanity but is punished for creating it.

Question 31

Victor misinterprets this important quote from the monster

Answer 31

I shall be with you on your wedding-night

Question 32

Frankenstein thinks De Lacy has a kind face. How does he describe it?

Answer 32

Expression of goodness that bestowed pleasure even upon me

Question 33

The rejection from humanity could be what turned the creation into monster. This is shown when he begins to see himself as a monster

Answer 33

A monster, a blot upon the earth

Question 34

Victor portrays the monster as otherworldly as it runs towards him in the Alps

Answer 34

Superhuman speed

Question 35

Clerval is shown to love life

Answer 35

Others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour