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Frankenstein - Victor Flashcards

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1
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What is significant about his name?

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Victor means winner

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2
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What about Victor’s personality is dangerous?

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Thirst for knowledge

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3
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What isolates Victor from his family and friends?

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His knowledge of the monster

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4
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How does Walton describe Victor?

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Celestial spirit

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5
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Why can we see Victor’s flaws but the other characters can’t?

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

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6
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What does Victor say he wants?

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Glory

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7
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Why doesn’t Victor long for love?

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

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8
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Why dies Victor change his mind about making Lady-Monster

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The wickedness of my promise burst upon me

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9
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What does Victor want to discover?

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Secrets of nature

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10
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Only looking back can he see that his experiments on corpses were

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Unhallowed acts

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11
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Victor wants to impart on the world an…

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Inestimable benefit

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12
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What does Victor think he has done by making the monster?

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Unchained an enemy

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13
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Victor blames himself for the deaths

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Not in deed, but in effect, the true murderer

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14
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Victor doesn’t commit suicide because he would leave his family…

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

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

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Deep, dark, deathlike

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16
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Victor finds happiness in places which are…

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Terrifically desolate

17
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This quote about Williams death could show why Victor refuses to reanimate another corpse. Or possibly he just wouldn’t reanimate his own brother

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Irreparable

18
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These show why Walton wants to succeed. Very general reasons

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“Glory” “benefit”

19
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Walton shows his struggles by comparing it to his sisters life. Also shows that their is no point not pursuing science.

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Ease and luxury

20
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Victor describe knowledge like this to Walton, to stop him. Has obvious biblical reference

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Serpent to sting you

21
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Ironically, Victor is described as this when he hears the monster is still alive

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“Animated” “a new spirit of life”

22
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Victor uses hyperbole to isolate himself and show how bad his hardship was

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Suffered great unparalleled misfortune

23
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Victor alludes to the Adam and Eve story when talking about ambition in a derogatory way.

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Have you drank also the intoxicating draft?

24
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Victor says his parents did this. Contrasts the monsters childhood

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Fulfilled their duties

25
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Victor uses a religious term to describe how he felt about Greek authors

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Disciple

26
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Wigtown has a temper which is described as…

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Violent

27
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Others agree that Victor loved science as a child

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Eager desire to learn

28
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Victor shows his love for his childhood and how he spent it

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No human could have passed a happier childhood than myself

29
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Victor recognises that he had a bad temper

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My temper was sometimes violent

30
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Victor shows a form of hubris

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Denies gods role in nature

31
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This explains why Shelley’s character was interested in electricity and reanimation

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

32
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Victor uses pathetic fallacy to show what it was like playing with lightning. He was on the summit of science

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I saw the lightnings playing on the summit of Mont Blanc

33
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Victor describes the storm in the same way as his success with reanimation

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Beautiful yet terrific

34
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Victor describes the feeling of his success in a way that distances himself from the monster

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Flesh tingling

35
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Victor hides in the courtyardof the house from the monster in fear

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The monster hides in a hovel next to the de lacey family with the ultimate aim of befriending them

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