Introduction To Frankenstein

Question 1

What is Genre?

Answer 1

A category that authors use to describe the tone and content of their writing

Question 2

Frankenstein was published in what 2 years

Answer 2

1818 and 1831

Question 3

What 2 genres is Frankenstein mainly in?

Answer 3

Gothic and Horror

Question 4

How did Mary Shelly come up with the idea to write it?

Answer 4

Her husband, Percy, Dr. Polidor, Poet Lord Byron, Lake Geneva, Swiss Alps, rain, ghost stories (challenge)

Question 5

What is galvanism?

Answer 5

The discussion of raising people from the dead using electricity (Theory of Frankenstein)

Question 6

How old was Mary Shelley when she published her first book or novel?

Answer 6

19

Question 7

Describe the gothic genre

Answer 7

Mystery and fear, haunted homes, castles, villain, supernatural, dark setting, omen or vision, intense emotion, women in distress

Question 8

What year was Frankenstein’s setting in?

Answer 8

1700 (18th century)

Question 9

Setting

Answer 9

Late 1700’s European, Switzerland, Germany and in the Artic

Question 10

How long was Mary Shelley alive for

Answer 10

The first half of the 1800s

Question 11

Who is the modern Prometheus?

Answer 11

The god of fire who created humanity using clay (similar to how Frankenstein made the monster out of body parts)

Question 12

What is allusion?

Answer 12

a direct or indirect reference to a significant person, event, time, or work of lifetime (real)