Single word descriptions in Frankenstein Flashcards
Walton’s mythical country
“eternal light”
Walton’s reason for his journey
“I shall satiate my ardent curiosity”
“glory”
Walton’s needs
“I have no friend”
Allusion to Coleridge’s ‘Ancient Mariner’
“I shall kill no albatross”
- Letter 2
Walton’s descriptions of Victor
- “interesting creature”
- “wildness and even madness”
- “gentle, yet so wise”
Victor’s description of his ambition
“Have you drunk also from the intoxicating draught”
- Letter 4
Victor’s reason for telling story
“I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale.”
- Letter 4
Victor’s father re. his mother
“He strove to shelter her”
- V1C1
Victor’s idyllic childhood
“Their plaything and their idol”
- v1c1
Victor about Elizabeth in v1c1
- “heaven-sent”
- “celestial stamp”
- “cherub”
- “shed radiance”
- “‘till death she was to be mine only”
Differences between Elizabeth’s and Victor’s attitudes to nature
Chapter 2:
E = “appearance of things”
V = “investigating their causes”
Victor’s motivation
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”
- Chapter 2
Victors excuse
“outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me”
- Chapter 2
Descriptions of Elizabeth in Chapter 2
- “saintly soul”
- “celestial eyes”
Victor’s description of his ambition - not a question
“fatal impulse that led to my ruin”
Victor’s ambition.
“one thought, one conception, and one purpose”
- Chapter 3
Victor’s realisation that home is best
“how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world”
- Chapter 4
Victor’s hopes for creature
“A new species would bless me as its creator”
- Chapter 4
Gothic style of creature’s birth.
“corpse of my dead mother’ ‘grave worms”
“grin wrinkled his cheeks”
Victor’s reaction to creature/style
“a flash of lightening illuminated the object”
“wretch”
“hideous”
“filthy daemon”
Romantic Description of home
“blue laked and snow clad mountains”
- Chapter 6
Geneva
“scene so beautiful and heavenly”
- Chapter 9
“heavenly scene restored me”
- Chapter 7
Justine’s stoicism
“God raises my spirit and gives me courage to endure the worst”
- Chapter 8
“Submit in patience”
- Chapter 8
Creatures reason for murder
“barbarity of man”
- Chapter 11
“I am malicious because I am miserable”
- Chapter 17
Victor takes responsibility for his creation
“I had right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?”
- Chapter 20
before he kills lady monster
The monster’s views of man from his knowledge of history
“so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base”
- Chapter 13
