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Letters 1-4, Ch. 1-3 Flashcards

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1
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(Letter 1) Walton believes he deserves a … after living a life of … and …
He deserves to … something incredible

A

greater purpose; ease; luxury; discover

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(Letter 2) sense of …: demands a friend with a …, …., someone to … him and … him on
even though he has people around him who are perfectly decent

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entitlement; cultivated mind; ceaseless patience; console cheer;

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3
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(Letter 2) Walton says that writing is a poor way of

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communicating feeling

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(Letter 2) Walton says that the 1 thing that separates him from others is that his … are more… than others
relates to Mary, she would daydream, this book derived from a dream

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daydreams; magnificent

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5
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(Letter 2) Walton wants a friend who will not call him

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Romantic

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(Letter 2) Walton doesn’t like the lieutenant because he’s too …, even though he’s …
Walton is … even though he’s friendless

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quiet; honorable; picky

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7
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(Letter 2) Walton is a person at … with …

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odds with himself

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(Letter 2) Walton as one at odds with himself:
he thinks that he’s so .., …, experiencing something so … that he can’t describe it in …, but he desperately wants to … it –> “half .., half …”

A

valuable; unique; powerful; words; communicate it; pleasurable; fearful

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(Letter 2) “half pleasurable, half fearful” expresses huge Romantic notion of … and … of nature

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awe; wonder

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(Letter 2) awe is a mix of … and …, it is a … experience

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terror; greed; speechless

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(Letter 2) Walton says he will not kill an …, and he will not return as …

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albatross; Ancient Mariner

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(Letter 2) in talking about the albatross and Ancient Mariner, Walton is alluding to …, written in the … by … and …

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The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner; Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge; Wordsworth

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(Letter 2) The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner:
about a …
grumpy old man at wedding who tells story of how he was going to go to …
above his ship was a … –> …

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wedding; the North Pole; giant white bird; albatross

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(Letter 2) The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (cont):

Captain shoots the bird down with an …, from that moment their story becomes …, all crew members … but him

A

arrow; tragic; die

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15
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(Letter 2) albatross around your neck means being really … about something

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guilty

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16
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(Letter 2) Walton expects to be … This is what he means by he will not kill an albatross (he’s gonna follow all signs, warnings, etc.)

A

victorious

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17
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(Letter 2) Something inside Walton’s soul that he does not …, this is the very thing that puts him in this position –> he is … by something within him
Walton believes that this something may be a … of the …, but he is unsure

A

understand; compelled; belief; marvelous

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18
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(Letter IV) can’t stop writing this 1 letter

ship is encased in …, which breaks off into … when it …

A

ice; icebergs; thaws

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(Letter IV) The crew see something that has the “…” of “…

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shape of a man; gigantic stature

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20
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(Letter IV) man on sledge was like the one that came before

savage: anything other than

A

European

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21
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(Letter IV) They refer to the creature as a “….” of the North Pole but refer to Victor as …, not merely describing him as a “…”

A

savage inhabitant; human being; shape of a man

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22
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(Letter IV) words to note: … and … —> they … Victor back to … by rubbing … all over his body and forcing him to drink some, they also gave him …

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animation; restoration; restore; animation; alcohol; soup

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23
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(Letter IV) Walton refers to Victor as an …. –> he overreacts to …, constantly looking over his should as if waiting for …, has a … about him

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interesting CREATURE; kindness; something terrible; wildness

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24
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(Letter IV) Victor says he was chasing a …

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demon

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25
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(Letter IV) demon has 2 meanings/spellings:

1: …, refers to the … in …
2: …, means …, 1/2 …, 1/2 …, semi- … spirit

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demon; damned souls; Hell; daemon; inferior divinity; mortal; immortal; divine

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26
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(Ch 1.) Victor is by birth a

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Genevese

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27
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(Ch 1.) Victors ancestors had been .. and ..

A

counsellors; syndics

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28
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(Ch 1.) Victor’s father was friends with a … named …., who fell into poverty and retreated with his daughter to the town of …

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merchant; Beaufort; Lucerne

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29
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(Ch 1.) Victor’s father searched for Beaufort after he concealed himself, and it took him … to find him. Beaufort was hoping to be employed in a … but when waiting was doing nothing and losing money. His grief became worse and he became …

A

10 months; merchant’s house; sick

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30
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(Ch 1.) Beaufort’s daughter, …., tried to gain money by …. –> … but her father died and Victor’s father took care of her and brought her to …. Later, after …, they got married

A

Caroline Beaufort; plaiting straw; sewing; Geneva; two years

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31
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(Ch 1.) everything victor’s father did was made to yield to Caroline’s wishes and convenience. Before they got married, Victor’s father quit his public functions, and after they got married they moved to … and visited …. and …

A

Italy; Germany; France

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32
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(Ch 1.) Victor was born in … Victor says that during every hour of his infant life he received a lesson of …, …, and …

A

Naples; patience; charity; self-control

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33
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(Ch 1.) When Victor was about … years old, his parents and him passed a week on the shores of the … and they visited cottages of the poor, where on one of his mother’s walks they saw a cot full of half-clothed children. His father, then, was at …

A

five; Lake of Como; Milan

34
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(Ch 1.) At the cot, his mother saw a very … girl, with … eyes, who differed from the other dark-eyed children. The girl was the daughter of a … and her mother was a …, who died when giving birth

A

fair; blue; Milanese nobleman; German

35
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(Ch 1.) Elizabeth’s father was a schiavi ognor frementi: “….” and died or was imprisoned. When Victor’s father returned from Milan, they made the decision to adopt her after consulting the …
The girl’s name was …

A

slaves always fretting; village priest; Elizabeth Lavenza;

36
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(Ch 1.) Victor believed that Elizabeth was his to …, …, and … They called each other ..

A

love; protect; cherish; cousin

37
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(Ch. 2) There wasn’t even a … difference in their ages (Elizabeth and Victor).
… was the soul of their companionship

A

year; harmony

38
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(Ch. 2) Elizabeth was of a … and more … disposition, but Victor was capable of a more intense application, and had a thirst for …

A

calmer; concentrated; knowledge

39
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(Ch. 2) Elizabeth found delight in … and … where Victor delighted in investigating the … of the things in …

A

poetry; nature; causes; nature

40
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(Ch. 2) …, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture etc. were the earliest sensations Victor can remember

A

curiosity

41
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(Ch. 2) Caroline had a second son, who was … years younger than Victor, and they had a house in … and a campagne (…) in … which is where they mainly lived

A

7; Geneva; country house; Belrive

42
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(Ch. 2) Victor was indifferent to his … because it was his temper to avoid a crowd, but he was close friends with …, the son of a … in Geneva

A

schoolfellows; Henry Clerval; merchant

43
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(Ch. 2) Henry loved …, …, and …. and was well read in books of … and … and wrote heroic songs

A

enterprise; hardship; danger; chivalry; romance

44
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(Ch. 2) Victor felt that his parents were the creators of the … they enjoyed

A

delights

45
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(Ch. 2) Victor wanted to learn about the …, the … of the world

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metaphysical; physical

46
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(Ch. 2) Clerval occupied himself with the … relations of things and his hopes were to become one among those whose names are recorded in …

A

moral; story

47
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(Ch. 2) … is the “genius that has regulated [Victor’s] fate”

A

natural philosophy

48
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(Ch. 2) When on a trip to Thonon, Victor found a volume of works by ….

A

Cornelius Agrippa

49
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(Ch. 2) After reading Agrippa’s book, Victor read more by him and afterwards of … and ….

A

Paracelsus; Albertus Magnus

50
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(Ch. 2) Sir Isaac Newton said that he felt like a child picking up … besides the great and unexplored … of …

A

shells ocean; truth

51
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(Ch. 2) Victor began searching for the the … and the … of life, mainly the latter

A

philosopher’s stone; elixir

52
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(Ch. 2) Victor wanted the … that would come with the discovery of banishing diseases

A

glory

53
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(Ch. 2) VIctor also wanted to be able to raise … or …

A

ghosts; devils

54
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(Ch. 2) one day when Victor was about … at the house of Belrive, there was a thunderstorm that destroyed an …, reducing it to a … and slivers of …

A

15; oak tree; stump; wood

55
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(Ch. 2) When the oak tree was destroyed a man who was an expert on … and … spoke of the catastrophe and “threw greatly into the shade” Agrippa, Magnus, and Paracelsus which made Victor upset and disinclined to pursue his accustomed studies

A

electricity; galvanism

56
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(Ch. 2) Victor thought that nothing would or could ever be

A

known

57
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(Ch. 2) Victor believes that this disinclination was the last effort made by the spirit of .., his …

A

preservation; guardian angel

58
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(Ch. 2) Victor believes his misery was a … that was too potent

A

destiny

59
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(Ch. 2) Victor had a violent … that manifested itself in his passion for learning

A

temper

60
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(Ch. 2) Victor, when disillusioned, decided to study …

A

mathematics

61
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(Ch. 3) At age …, Victor was to become a student at … because his father thought it necessary that he should learn of the … other than those of his native country but at this time Elizabeth caught the …

A

17; Ingolstadt; customs; scarlet fever

62
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(Ch. 3) they tried to convince their mother not to take care of Elizabeth because the disease was fatal, but she did anyway. Elizabeth lived but on the … day, Victor’s mother became sick and she …, but before she did she told Elizabeth and Victor that she wished for them to get … and that Elizabeth would ….

A

third; died; married; take her place as mother for her youngest

63
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(Ch. 3) Elizabeth devoted herself to

A

Victor’s family

64
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(Ch. 3) Clerval tried to convince his father to allow him to accompany Victor to Ingolstadt and become a …, but his father saw … and … in Henry’s ambitions

A

student; idleness; ruin

65
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(Ch. 3) Victor’s family and Clerval were “…” and he believed himself unfitting for the company of ..

A

old familiar faces; strangers

66
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(Ch. 3) Victor says that …, or …., led him first to the professor of natural philosophy, …

A

chance; the Angel of Destruction; M. Krempe

67
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(Ch. 3) Krempe basically insults Victor for having studied Magnus, Paracelsus etc. and gives him a … of … about natural philosophy. …. would be the professor lecturing on … when krempe wasn;t therel

A

list; several books; M. Waldman; chemistry

68
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(Ch. 3) Part of Victor’s disinterest in modern natural philosophy and sciences was that he … and he also liked the search for …. and … in ancient natural philosophy, and modern philosophy annihilate the visions on which Victor’s interest in science was founded –> he didn’t like the science that explained …

A

didn’t understand it; immortality; power; reality

69
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(Ch. 3) M. Waldman was the complete opposite of …

A

M. Krempe

70
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(Ch. 3) Victor attends one of M. Waldman’s lectures, where he speaks on the … of chemistry and the present state of chemistry. But he says that the ancient teachers of chem promised .. and performed … but that the present scientists promise little and seem to be doing little but have actually …., and have ….

A

history; impossibilities; nothing; performed miracles; unlimited powers

71
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(Ch. 3) After hearing Waldman, Frankenstein became resolved to do greater and discover more. But when he woke up the next day, his only resolution was to return to his … and devote himself to science

A

ancient studies

72
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(Ch. 3) Waldman advises Victor to study …

A

all branches of natural philosophy, even math

73
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(Ch. 3) Waldman also gives Victor a list of

A

books

74
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(Ch. 3) Waldman says that scientists can mock the invisible world with its own

A

shadows

75
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(Letter 4) the stranger (VIctor) is referred to as

A

creature

76
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(Letter 4) stranger has … when Robert speaks of how he wants to acquire previously unknown knowledge

A

spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling

77
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(Letter 4) monster of this book is holding a sign that says do not … or … through …, which is ironic because you have to … the book to know this –> essential ….

A

read; pursue knowledge; reading; read; contradiction

78
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(Letter 4) Robert says he wants a friend, but the stranger is … his friendship
stranger says without a friend we are …, but … made up –> we are not …
if our creator were kinder, he would make us … by giving us friends –> friendlessness is ..’s fault

A

rejecting; unfashioned creatures; half; whole; whole; God

79
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(Letter 4) the stranger is … embodied: he feels the power and beauty of ..

A

Romanticism; nature

80
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(Letter 4) the stranger experiences a … existence: … world disappoints him but when he retreats into himself something … prevents him from experiencing …
the … makes the stranger …

A

double; regular; heavenly; grief; secret self; peaceful

81
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(Letter 4) stranger’s … is never failing, his …. is penetrating into the … of things –> why Robert thinks stranger is one of the best people he knows

A

judgment; intellect; cause

82
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(Letter 4) stranger agrees to tell Robert a story because Robert is going on the same …, this is to … Robert if he succeeds/fails

A

path; guide

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