Frankenstein - Victor

Question 1

What is significant about his name?

Answer 1

Victor means winner

Question 2

What about Victor’s personality is dangerous?

Answer 2

Thirst for knowledge

Question 3

What isolates Victor from his family and friends?

Answer 3

His knowledge of the monster

Question 4

How does Walton describe Victor?

Answer 4

Celestial spirit

Question 5

Why can we see Victor’s flaws but the other characters can’t?

Answer 5

The other characters are short-sighted, or maybe biased narration

Question 6

What does Victor say he wants?

Answer 6

Glory

Question 7

Why doesn’t Victor long for love?

Answer 7

His parents were “possessed by the very spirit of kindness”

Question 8

Why dies Victor change his mind about making Lady-Monster

Answer 8

The wickedness of my promise burst upon me

Question 9

What does Victor want to discover?

Answer 9

Secrets of nature

Question 10

Only looking back can he see that his experiments on corpses were

Answer 10

Unhallowed acts

Question 11

Victor wants to impart on the world an…

Answer 11

Inestimable benefit

Question 12

What does Victor think he has done by making the monster?

Answer 12

Unchained an enemy

Question 13

Victor blames himself for the deaths

Answer 13

Not in deed, but in effect, the true murderer

Question 14

Victor doesn’t commit suicide because he would leave his family…

Answer 14

Exposed and unprotected to the fiend whom I had let loose among them

Question 15

How does Shelley describe Victor’s solitude with gothic imagery?

Answer 15

Deep, dark, deathlike

Question 16

Victor finds happiness in places which are…

Answer 16

Terrifically desolate

Question 17

This quote about Williams death could show why Victor refuses to reanimate another corpse. Or possibly he just wouldn’t reanimate his own brother

Answer 17

Irreparable

Question 18

These show why Walton wants to succeed. Very general reasons

Answer 18

“Glory” “benefit”

Question 19

Walton shows his struggles by comparing it to his sisters life. Also shows that their is no point not pursuing science.

Answer 19

Ease and luxury

Question 20

Victor describe knowledge like this to Walton, to stop him. Has obvious biblical reference

Answer 20

Serpent to sting you

Question 21

Ironically, Victor is described as this when he hears the monster is still alive

Answer 21

“Animated” “a new spirit of life”

Question 22

Victor uses hyperbole to isolate himself and show how bad his hardship was

Answer 22

Suffered great unparalleled misfortune

Question 23

Victor alludes to the Adam and Eve story when talking about ambition in a derogatory way.

Answer 23

Have you drank also the intoxicating draft?

Question 24

Victor says his parents did this. Contrasts the monsters childhood

Answer 24

Fulfilled their duties

Question 25

Victor uses a religious term to describe how he felt about Greek authors

Answer 25

Disciple

Question 26

Wigtown has a temper which is described as…

Answer 26

Violent

Question 27

Others agree that Victor loved science as a child

Answer 27

Eager desire to learn

Question 28

Victor shows his love for his childhood and how he spent it

Answer 28

No human could have passed a happier childhood than myself

Question 29

Victor recognises that he had a bad temper

Answer 29

My temper was sometimes violent

Question 30

Victor shows a form of hubris

Answer 30

Denies gods role in nature

Question 31

This explains why Shelley’s character was interested in electricity and reanimation

Answer 31

In Shelley’s time Luigi Galvani thought electricity was in the joints of animals

Question 32

Victor uses pathetic fallacy to show what it was like playing with lightning. He was on the summit of science

Answer 32

I saw the lightnings playing on the summit of Mont Blanc

Question 33

Victor describes the storm in the same way as his success with reanimation

Answer 33

Beautiful yet terrific

Question 34

Victor describes the feeling of his success in a way that distances himself from the monster

Answer 34

Flesh tingling