Setting

Question 1

The Mountains:

Answer 1

• “The sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving”. pg. 104
• “They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not subdue my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it.”
• The Romantics viewed nature as both a source of comfort and a force of cruelty, and Frankenstein is imbued with this philosophy.
• “It was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty alps.” pg. 104
• “I enjoyed the scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future.” pg.172

Question 2

The Barn:

Answer 2

• The monster finds Justine sleeping in the barn, he plants the locket on her, knowing that she will be blamed for the murder of William
• “The murder I have committed because I am for ever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone. The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!” pg.154
• “While I was overcome by these feelings, I left the spot where I had committed the murder, and seeking a more secluded hiding-place, I entered a barn which had appeared to me to be empty” pg.154

Question 3

The lab:

Answer 3

• The lab is a solitary chamber or cell that’s separated from the rest of the house, which isolates Victor and his work. Victor’s isolation causes him to make bad decisions and is also the punishment for those decisions.
• “A solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase”
• “By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.” p.63
• “I proceeded, and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory.” p.54

Question 4

The Orkney Islands:

Answer 4

• “Fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkney’s”
• “The soil was barren”
• “Desolate and appalling landscape”
• pg. 175
• Marks a turning point in the novel as it highlights the double sided vows of revenge held by both Victor and the monster
• “She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate” pg. 178
• “He came now to mark my progress, and claim the fulfilment of my promise.” pg.179

Question 5

The Arctic:

Answer 5

• “Vast and irregular planes of ice, which seemed to have no end.” pg. 25
• “I am surrounded by mountains of ice which admit no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel.” pg. 229
• “I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle.”pg. 15

Question 6

DeLacey House:

Answer 6

• “My place of refuge.” pg.115
• “Agreeable asylum from the snow and rain.” pg. 115
• “The light I enjoy came through the sky and that was sufficient for me.” pg.115

Question 7

Geneva:

Answer 7

• “We possessed a house in Geneva.” pg. 39
• “Majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home.”
• “Silence on winter, and the life and turbulence of our alpine summers.”

Question 8

Europe:

Answer 8

• “Immense glaciers.”
• “This valley is more wonderful and sublime.”
• “I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche.”
• “The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me.”