Monstrosity

Question 1

Vanished

Answer 1

Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart

Question 2

Thirsting

Answer 2

Men appeared to me as monsters thirsting for each others’ blood

Question 3

Sport

Answer 3

How dare you sport thus with life?

Question 4

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Joseph

Answer 4

It is ironic but totally appropriate that, the nameless monster seems to have usurped the name of its creator

Question 5

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Percy Shelley

Answer 5

The being in Frankenstein, is no doubt, a tremendous creature

Question 6

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Hawels

Answer 6

The subject is somewhat revolting, the treatment somewhat hideous

Question 7

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Mary Shelley

Answer 7

My hideous prodgeny

Question 8

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O’Keefe

Answer 8

(Gothic) “in that liminal state between our real world and the world of imagined horrors and fears”

Question 9

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Punter

Answer 9

Shelley is the first Gothic writer to “invite sympathy for the monster, allowing him to speak and explain the origins of his monstrous behaviour”

Question 10

Humanity

Answer 10

More hideous than belongs to humanity

Unearthly ugliness

Too horrible for human eyes

Question 11

Deformity

Answer 11

Deformity of its aspect

Gigantic structure

Fatal affects of this miserable deformity

Question 12

Monster

Answer 12

I began to think that I was the monster he said I was - Justine

Unable to believe that it was indeed I that was reflected in the mirror

I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am

Question 13

Wretched

Answer 13

I was wretched helpless and alone

It was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life

All men hate the wretched

Question 14

Satan

Answer 14

Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition

I ought to be thy Adam but I was rather the fallen angel

Question 15

Sickened

Answer 15

My heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred

Question 16

Concieve

Answer 16

Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil?

Question 17

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Mellor

Answer 17

Victors most passionate relationships are with men rather than women

Victor cannot do scientific research and think lovingly of Elizabeth and his family at the same time

One of the deepest horrors in the novel is Frankensteins implicit goal of creating a society for men only; his creature is male and he refuses to create a female

Always refers to nature as a she, Victor steals “the females control over production”

Frankenstein has has eliminated the female primary biological function and source of cultural power

Set against the novels wider pattern of gender inequality and political injustice the De Lacey family provides an alternative

Question 17

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Johnson

Answer 17

The story of Frankenstein is the story of a man who usurps the female role by giving birth

Question 17

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Moers

Answer 17

He defies morality by giving birth

He gets “retribution” for his “deficient infant care”

Trauma of afterbirth