Frankenstein - Overall Flashcards
What is the significance of Victor’s name?
Victor means winner
Elizabeth is described by Victor from the beginning as beautiful
Her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes
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.
Rosy with health
Frankenstein is similar to the poem Paradise Lost. How?
Frankenstein is banished for being different and this leads to him plotting revenge, much like Satan did when banished from heaven.
Elizabeth is portrayed as courageous, clever and just when her speech to defend justice is described as this
Simple and powerful appeal
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
Unhallowed acts
The importance of companionship is seen when Safie returns to Felix
Infused new life into his soul
The monsters reflection causes him pain
Despondence and mortification
Victor’s gloom is highlighted by Clerval a number of times, such as during this description of Clerval
Enthusiastic imagination
Victor Frankenstein spends a lot of time stuck in small places. What does this mean?
These small spaces could signify the mental and physical imprisonment of Victor Frankenstein
Victor has a passion for …
Glory
Victor has a ……
Thirst for knowledge
Elizabeth is shown to be kind by helping Victor
“Subdue” his violent temper
The unnatural nature of the monster is shown by Victor’s first description of it.
Demoniacal corpse
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…..
Devil
Victor is shown to be ambitious in his attitude to science, he wants to do more than……. . This shows he wants to create
Dissect, anatomise and give names
What is the significance of the characters spending large quantities of time in large open space?
The large open spaces signify how lonely a character is
What is the significance of Justine’s name?
JUSTine, irony
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
A monster, a blot on the earth
Victor’s ambition leads to a…
Child’s blindness
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.
To the solid advantage of mankind
Victor believes that Alphonse fulfilled his duties as a father
Active spirit of tenderness
Walton’s ambition mean he cannot see the facts, he has a fantasy that…….
Snow and frost are banished
What is the significance of Clerval’s name?
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.
Despite Victors flaws, Walton describes him with these three quotes
“Celestial spirit”, “divine wanderer”, “never-failing power of judgement”
The monster believes William and De Lacey will be this because they are child and blind respectively
Unprejudiced
Victor shows that him and Elizabeth have a strong bond
Beautiful and adored companion
Frankenstein is similar to The Fall Of Man. HOW?
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.
She loves being Genevan and living in Switzerland because of its equality, only for this love to be shattered by Justine’s execution
Our fortunate country
Frankenstein is similar to the Latin myth Prometheus. How?
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.
Victor misinterprets this important quote from the monster
I shall be with you on your wedding-night
Frankenstein thinks De Lacy has a kind face. How does he describe it?
Expression of goodness that bestowed pleasure even upon me
The rejection from humanity could be what turned the creation into monster. This is shown when he begins to see himself as a monster
A monster, a blot upon the earth
Victor portrays the monster as otherworldly as it runs towards him in the Alps
Superhuman speed
Clerval is shown to love life
Others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour
