Frankenstein Chapters & Letters 1-4

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Why does the stranger say he has journeyed so far on ice?

"To seek someone who fled from me"

Walton tells his sister of the preparations leading up to his departure and of the desire burning in his accomplish ___________

"some great purpose"

What are the different elements of foreshadowing in Walton's letters?

* Dedicated to his great enterprise * His great purpose * Mathematics * Medicine * science

What does Victor believe now that he has an idea?

* Victor believes that creating life is now within his grasp * Victor believes that this knowledge has made him happier

In what century does Frankenstein take place?

1700s

how old is Walton

28

How much time passes between the 1st and 2nd letters

3 months

How much time passes between letters 2 and 3

4 months

What is there a theme of throughout the 2nd letter?

A desire for community

What occurrence took place when Victor was about five years old?

Adopted Elizabeth Lavenza

Victor's father is ______

Alphonse

What is Victor's particular desire?

Banish diseases

Why is Elizabeth's portrayal interesting?

Because Mary Shelley's mother was a women's rights activist

Why is the amount of time Victor took to gather the parts not logical?

Because if it really took months than the bodies would start to decay

What does the wanderer warn Robert against

Becoming obsessed with one goal

major writers of the enlightenment

Ben Franklin, John Locke, Francis Bacon, Thomas Pain

What great power does Victor discover?

Bistow animation on lifeless matter

How does Walton describe the stranger?

Brother, "noble creature, destroyed by misery"

How is Walton traveling?

By boat

How does Victor's mother die?

Calmly

Victor's mother is _______

Caroline

Who had Frankensteins father married?

Caroline Beaufort

Who had Frankenstein's father married?

Caroline Beaufort.

Whose works does Victor pursue in his reading and studies?

Cornelius Agrippa; he believes that it is a trash and a waste of time considering he doesn't like science

What does he decide to do with his power?

Create a massive human

What does Victor think he is doing by creating life?

Creating a new species

What does Mr. Krempe do?

Criticizes Victor's beliefs in the old scientists

What happens to Victors health?

Declines.

Frozen, emaciated, fatigue, suffering

Describe the man's condition

Cold, snowy, windy, and icy

Describe the weather conditions Robert is about to experience.

What is Victor doing in order to study death?

Digging up dead bodies and observing them as they decay

What are his specific plans for his voyage

Discover a northern passage to the pacific, revealing the source of the Earth's magnetism, or setting foot on undiscovered territory

No

Does Victor follow his father's advice?

Frankenstein described how ________ entered his family.

Elizabeth

What is the name of the orphan Frankenstein's mother helps?

Elizabeth

What does Walton say he would sacrifice to further his knowledge in the workings of the natural world?

Everything

What effect does a thunderstorm have on Victor when he was 15?

He think's it's worth being studied, and starts to take an interest in galvanism

What does Victor think will happen to him if he creates life?

He will be praised

What does Frankenstein's mother do later in life?

Helps another orphan

Two

How many sons does the Frankenstein's now have?

What are the names of the two teachers Victor has in school?

Mr. Krempe and Mr. Waldman

What is Walton's sisters name?

Mrs. Saville

Is Walton a reliable narrator?

Possibly. Waton may not want his friend to be seen badly

What happens to Victors mother?

Scarlet fever

What does Walton say about the Master of the Ship?

That he loved someone who loved someone else

What does Victor think about Elizabeth? (not her personality)

That she is his possession and that he is "his"

What does Victor's father think about the books?

That they are old-fashioned

What does Victor believe himself to be?

The Creator

What is his destination

The north pole

at the end of his letter what does walton suggest is a possibility

that he might die soon

Elizabeth Lavenza

what is the pretty present given to robert by this mother

What are some archetypes of orphans?

*Don't expect much from others * Abandonment and trust issues * Always looking for others * Often worried about others

gothic

-writers seek to evoke an atmosphere of terror -a character's sense of encountering a double of him or herself

How much time passes between letters 3 and 4

1 month

What does he hope to discover on this adventure to the North Pole? (2 things)

1) a magnetism of the North Pole 2) Shorter route to the Pacific

What does Victor think he will be to the new species?

A father

What does Robert feel has finally found

A friend

What does the stranger provide Walton with?

A friend

What does Walton see at the beginning of the 4th Letter?

A man on a sledge guided by dogs

What did Walton's men see last Monday (July 31st) while they were trapped by ice?

A sled being pulled by dogs with a gigantic man figure guiding them

Who does Walton meet upon his arrival?

A stranger

What natural event occurs that fascinates Victor?

A tree is struck by lightning and destroyed

Who did Frankenstein's father marry?

A young orphaned woman.

What in particular does he decide to study?

Anatomy

How is Elizabeth presented to Victor?

As a gift from his mother

Brotherhood; noble

As the stranger's health gradually improves, what sort of relationship develops between Walton and him?

What subject in school interests Victor?

Chemistry

What is the relationship between Victor and Elizabeth?

Close friends

What does Walton desire now?

Companionship / friend: Someone to share his joy or disappointment with

Why does the stranger despise himself?

For his great passion for knowledge

What is Walton's sister's premonition a sign of?

Foreshadowing

Victor's mother die?

From scarlet fever

What idea does Victor become interested in?

Galvanism

What native country did Victor's parents return to raise their child

Geneva

What is the setting?

Geneve Switerland

How does the man respond to Walton's project?

Grief overcame him.

What does Victor think of Krempes subject?

Hates it

major writers of romanticism

Hawthorne, Poe, Mary Shelly

What does Victor do to Elizabeth because of her view of the world?

He dismisses her as an intellectual equal

How does Victor cope with his mother's death?

He doesn't go to college right away

What realization comes over Victor as soon as he leaves his home?

He doesn't like the company of strangers but always gains new knowledge so to him it was worth it.

What does Walton say the new friendship does for him?

He feels like he has been brought back to life

What is the one want he has not been able to satisfy

He has no firends9

What is the allusion at the end of Letter 2?

He is in the land of mist and snow, and he will kill no albatross

What news does he give in letter 3

He is safe

Whose relationship is the stranger When he says " he strove to shelter her as a fair very exotic is sheltered by the gardener..."?

He is talking about his parents

What is Victors attitude toward Elizabeth?

He loves her

What is Victor's attitude toward Elizabeth?

He loves her.

What must Victor do first in order to examine the causes of life?

He must examine death

He was 15 what did Victor see that so intrigued him and made him doubt that's the ancient philosophers who had followed could ever provide real knowledge

He saw lightning strike a tree and it made him think if electricity

Describe the "strange incident" of letter 4

He see's a very large man on a sled, and the next day he sees another man on a sled with all but one dog dead. he is weak and starving, he boards the ship and is cared for

What is another allusion to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Letter 3?

He talks about the sheets of ice that surround the ship

Who is Victor's friend?

Henry Clerval

Who was Victors greatest friend?

Henry Clerval

Who was Victor's close boyhood friend

Henry clerval

Why did Frankenstein's father marry the woman he did?

Her father had died and she was an orphan

What has Walton managed to do and what does he desire?

Hire sailors and vessel. A friend

What does Victor refer to Elizabeth as?

His "more than sister"

What emotions does the stranger bring about from Walton?

His admiration and pity

How does Walton react to the news of Victor's discovery?

His discovery caused his misery

Why doesn't Clerval accompany Victor to Ingolstadt?

His father's business is low.

Despite the optimistic tone of these letters what is never far from reach?

His lonliness

What is Victor's first encounter with death?

His mother dies

What is happening to Victor whilst he is creating life?

His own health is failing him

How does Victor describe his parents?

His parents are doting and always give their children the attention that they desire

Who are Walton's letters to?

His sister

What do Victor's parents give him as a gift?

His sister, Elizabeth

He read book in his uncle Thomas' library

How did he become interested in this expedition?

Laid the foundation for modern knowledge

How does Waldman consider the teachings of Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus?

The stranger excited Walton's admiration and pity for him. He grieves him as he is a noble creature destroyed by misery. Yet, he is very gentle, wise, and educated.

How does Walton feel about the stranger?

Wisely

How does Walton promise to act regarding his voyage north?

28

How old is Walton?

What does Victor think is important about things?

How they work

What is Walton questioning about his journey?

If he is being too ambitious

Victor attends a university in ___________

Ingolstadt

Where does Victor go to school?

Ingolstadt

What effect does Waldmans teaching have upon Victor?

Inspirational

No because father didn't believe in liberal education

Is Clerval allowed to accompany Frankenstein? Why?

No, knowledge

Is Walton embarking on this journey to reap money?

Yes

Is he worried about never seeing his native land again?

Why is Victor interested in the tree being struck by lightning?

It is mother nature destroying something with electricty

"Although I possess the capacity of bestowing animation yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it all still remain a work of inconceivable difficulty and labor" what is victor saying and in what tone of voice do you imagine him saying it

It will be really hard but he can do it and high-pitched

Elizabeth, discovered by Caroline on a trip to _______

Italy

What does Victor's "light" represent?

Knowledge

Where does Victor secure his materials?

Labs and graves

How does Waldman consider the teachings of Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus?

Laid foundation for modern knowledge

Who told Victor he was happy to have gained a disciple

M waldman

At the university, Victor sets up a meeting with a professor of natural philosophy

M. Krempe

Victor attends a lecture in chemistry by a professor named ______

M. Waldman

Who is Victors other teacher?

M. Waldman

What is a major theme in the first 4 chapters?

Man's desire for ultimate knowledge and the disasters that can happen because of those desires

Robert Walton's sister is _____________

Margaret Saville

What is Victor's interest in learning?

Metaphysical

Who are the letters addressed to?

Mrs. Saville

Where was Victor born?

Naples, Italy

What does Frankenstein study in the 2 years when he paid no visit to Geneva?

Natural science and Chemistry

PreDiction will Victor's father learn what his son is up to you at school

Never ne is sly

Does Walton know what he is doing?

No

Has Walton ever had a friend?

No

Is Clerval allowed to accompany Frankenstein? Why?

No, Father says no

What does Walton see both the Lieutenant and the Master of the Ship as?

Noble savages

What does M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy, think of Victors studies?

Nonsense

What does Walton consider to be the "most severe evil"?

Not having any friends

What does Victor pick up whilst with his father?

Old style science books (alchemy)

What are the books Victor reads about?

People who are trying to find out the meaning of life and how life is created

Where is the narrator when he writes letter one? Why is he there?

Petersburg. Going to North Pole

What is Victor doing by creating life?

Playing God

Which professor is Victor's favorite? Why?

Professor M. Waldman because he encourages Victor's interest in philosophy

Where does the idea of Frankenstein being the Modern Prometheus come from?

Prometheus made man (a species) and Victor is making a species

Letters are from explorer ___________

Robert Walton

Who wrote the letters? What is the relationship between writer and recipient?

Robert Walton, brother and sister

Who is writing letter 1 and every other letter and to whom is he writing? What is their relationship?

Robert Walton. Margaret. Siblings

What type of person is Henry Clerval?

Romantic

How is the setting of the fourth letter typically Romantic?

Romantic stories often took place in wild and untamed settings

How do Walton's life and travels adhere to the ideals of Romanticism?

Romanticism dealt with the themes of adventures and travel to educate one's self

What country is Walton in when writing the first letter?

Russia

What is the major theme of Frankenstein?

Seeking knowledge

Why did the peasants family raise Elizabeth and why did they give her up

She lived in poverty on the streets

What last request does Victors mother make?

She wants Victor and Elizabeth to marry.

This letter is signed "R. Walton" for Robert Walton. What is his relation to the woman he is writing to in England, Mrs. Saville?

Siblings

What did Walton's sister have a premonition about?

Something bad happening to the ship Walton is on

Where is Robert when he writes the first letter

St. Petersburg Russia

From what city is Walton writing from?

St. Petersburgh

Of what country are the Frankenstein family citizens?

Switzerland

What does Mr. Waldman do?

Teaches chemistry

What does Walton believe about himself?

That he has a greater purpose

What does the stranger say he has done?

That he has lost everything and cannot start life again

What does Walton think about the Lieutenant on the ship?

That he is noble

Walton is captain of a ship that is headed to _______

The North Pole

What does Walton allude to at the end of the 2nd Letter?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

What does Elizabeth think is important about things?

The beauty of things

What does he say influenced him to want to travel the ocean

The books he read in his uncles library

What does Henry like about things?

The moral relations of things and how they work together

What discovery does Victor make while at the university?

The structure of the human frame

What did Victor study in order to examine death?

The structure of the human frame and the decay it endured

What does Waldman promise Frankenstein?

The use of a lab and books

Gothic novel, isolation, science

Themes of Letters:

How are Walton and the stranger parallels?

They are both ambitious

What are Noble Savages?

They are good people but are not well educated

How many children do Victor's mother and father have? (including him; not including Elizabeth)

Three

Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there?What shape is he in?

To find the one who fled him. He's old and frail

Why do you think Shelly waited until Chapter 1 to reveal the stranger's name?

To get Walton's perspective on the character before the story began.

What is the purpose of this first letter?

To inform Mrs. Saville he has arrived in Russia safely.

Why does the man agree to tell his story?

To prevent Walton from doing the same thing he did

Mathematics

To what studies does Frankenstein now turn his attention?

What kind of childhood has Victor experienced?

Very happy

How did the strangers parents treat him when he was a child?

Very kindly and wanted to learn from him

The stranger, ____________ , begins his story.

Victor Frankenstein

Who is the stranger?

Victor Frankenstein

Who tells the story to whom?

Victor Frankenstein to captain Robert Walton

What is different about Victor compared to Henry?

Victor is more violent and wants to discover the origins of things

What warning does Victor give Walton about his discovery?

Victor wants to prevent his new friend from making the same mistakes he did.

How do Elizabeth and Victor differ as children?

Victor was loud and was always searching for knowledge. Elizabeth was more calm and did normal childhood activities

Who is Henry Clerval? Describe his character.

Victor's best friend; he has a noble spirit, and is extremely kind and generous

The cycle of seasons mirror what?

Victor's own transformation

friend

Walton writes to his sister and says he has hired a vessel, sailors, and ready to embark on his journey; but he is missing one thing. What is it?

Why does the wanderer want to tell his story to robert

Wants to be understood/wants his story to serve as a lesson

Man on the sledge

What "accident" is explained in letter four?

Study all branches of natural philosophy

What advice does Waldman give Frankenstein?

Walton complains that he doesn't have a friend and desperately wants one to accompany him on this long and hard journey.

What complaints does he have?

They both desire knowledge

What do the strange man and Walton have in common?

Natural science and chemistry

What does Frankenstein study in the two years when he paid no visit to Geneva?

Nonsense, wasting time

What does M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy, think of Victor's studies?

He hates it

What does Victor think of Krempe's subject?

The use of his lab and a book list

What does Waldman promise Frankenstein?

Create a massively large human being

What does he decide to do with this power?

Where he's going

What does the man ask the captain before boarding his ship?

Not to take same path by telling about himself

What does the strange man tell Walton?

The stranger demands Walton to tell him where his ship is bound.

What does the stranger demand?

Inspiration

What effect does Waldman's teaching have upon Victor?

Undiscovered territory

What for?

How to bestow animation on lifeless matter

What great power does Victor discover?

Becomes very nervous and feverish

What happens to Victor's health?

She dies of scarlet fever

What happens to Victor's mother?

Anatomy

What in particular does he decide to study?

Walton had been interested in books illustrating all the voyages made for purpose of discovery since he was a child. He desired to embark on a seafaring life, but his uncle forbade it. He then tried to become a poet, but he failed miserably. After inheriting the fortune of his cousin, he decided to try and achieve his dreams of seafaring.

What inspired him to go? What had he done before this?

Metaphysical science - secrets of the world

What is Victor's interest in learning?

Banish disease from the earth and make man invulnerable

What is Victor's particular desire?

Story that connects (Frankenstein)

What is a frame story?

Very close and compatible

What is the relationship between Victor and Elizabeth?

He starts his search for the philosophers stone, Elixir of life

What is the result of Frankenstein's reading of these books?

Extremely happy

What kind of childhood has Victor experienced?

Victor finds a book written by Cornilius Agrippa

What leads to Victor's learning interests?

He hired a vessel and is occupied in collecting his sailors

What major thing has Walton accomplished since his first letter?

July

What month does Walton write to his sister and tell her he is "well advanced on my journey"?

June

What month does he intend to sail?

Writing home

What obligation does he fail to perform?

The ship was surrounded by ice, closing the ship in on all sides and they were encompassed by a thick fog.

What problem does the crew run into?

"Where does life begin?"

What question does Frankenstein often ask himself?

The crew spots a carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, being guided by a man.

What strange sight does the crew see?

Romantic, adventurous

What type of person is Henry Clerval?

Books by Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus

What writings does Victor read and study when he returns home?

Talking to someone in the ocean in the middle of somewhere

When Walton awakens, what does he see the crew doing on deck?

To seek one who fled from me

When asked, why the man was on the ice so far out, what was the man's response?

He doesn't know

When will he return?

Ingolstadt

Where does Victor go to school?

Graves, charnel homes

Where does Victor secure his materials?

What question does Frankenstein often ask himself?

Where does life begin?

North pole

Where is he traveling?

Walton is going to the North Pole. He is going to find a passage near the pole to counties on the other side of the world and discover the origin of the earth's magnetism.

Where is the narrator going and why is he going there?

Margaret Saville (Robert Walton's sister)

Who are the letters to?

M. Waldman

Who is Victor's other teacher?

Robert Walton is writing to his sister Margaret Saville

Who is writing the letters and to whom?

His father

Who opposed of Robert's seafaring life?

Captain Walton

Who records the stranger's tale?

Henry Clerval

Who was Victor's greatest friend?

The letters from his sister lift him up when he's depressed, and he can share his joy

Why do the letters from his sister mean so much to Walton?

To make Captain Walton doesn't make same mistake

Why do you think he tells him his story?

The stranger feels compelled to tell his story because he recognizes Walton is following the same path and exposing himself to the same dangers as he did. He hopes Walton will deduce a moral from his tale, which will direct him if he succeeds in his undertaking or console him in case of failure.

Why does the stranger feel compelled to share his story?

He witnessed the power of electricity

Why is the thunderstorm so disturbing to Victor?

What is Victor youngest brother's name?

William

What obligation does he fail to perform?

Writing home

Does Walton believe that his goals can be reached?

Yes

Is it possible that Walton is changing the story to make his friend seem better?

Yes

What does Walton call his friend?

a "brother of my heart"

Enlightenment

a celebration of ideas about what the human mind is capable of and what could be achieved through deliberate action and scientific methodology

what strange sight do the men see from the deck of the ship

a sledge with a monstrous creature on it

Walton tells his sister that his ship has set sail and that he has full confidence that he will __________

achieve his goals

Begins to study how the human body is built

anatomy & death and decay

romanticism

appeals to imagination, willing suspension of disbelief

Walton's story ends and the stranger's story ________

begins

Elizabeth and Victor grow up together as _______

best friends

rationalism/enlightenment/age of reason

criterion of the truth and is not sensory, bur intellectual and deductive

what does Walton hope to accomplish from the trip

discover earths magnetism, and learn the secrets of the world

After several years of work he masters all that his professors have taught him: he goes a step further

discovering secrets of life and death

What is Galvanism?

electricity produced by chemical action

What mixture of three interests of Victor's result in bad things?

electricity, chemistry, and desire to create life

hubris

excessive pride or self confidence

at the end of his August 13th letter, Walton thinks he may have found a _____________

friend

what is a desire Walton has not yet satisfied on his journey

friend

As time passes, Walton and the stranger become ______

friends

Walton and his men spot a sledge guided by a _______ half a mile away

gigantic creature

what seems to excite the ill stranger

going north

what quality does the stranger have that "elevates him so immeasurably" in Walton's esteem

good intuition and judgement, the communication between the two

how is his friendless condition affecting his determination and resolutions

he is becoming depressed and almost wants to give up

What is Walton referencing when he says "Country of Eternal Light"?

he is referring to the amount of time it is daytime in Russia

when will he leave and how long will he be away

he leaves in june, he does not know how long he will be away

who does Walton greatly admire

his Lieutenant

in what dangerous physical condition does the boat find itself

it is surrounded by ice

He witnesses the destructive power of nature: during a raging storm, ____________ destroys a tree near his house.

lightning

How does Walton feel after meeting the stranger?

like he no longer has to deal with isolation and loneliness

Walton feels ________ and isolated

lonely

Discovering a passage to the Pacific, revealing the source of Earth's __________

magnetism

to whom is this letter written

margret Saville

On her deathbed, she begs Elizabeth and Victor to______

marry

Victor's mother decides at the moment of the adoption that Elizabeth and Victor should someday ______

marry

major writers of gothic

mary shelly, poe

to what or whom does Walton attribute most of his romantic fascination with the ocean

modern poets

How long does Victor spend preparing the body parts?

months

Victor becomes interested in ________

natural philosophy

Interested in ________________

natural philosophy and chemistry

As a teenager, Victor becomes fascinated by the mysteries of _______

natural world

What does Walton have a love of?

nature

Victor moves from being very human to being what?

nervous, unable to relax, pale, and hollow

is the sledge they encounter the same one carrying the man of "gigantic stature" that they had seen earlier

no

what is Walton's destination

north pole

What type of tone is set in Walton's letters?

optimistic

What are Walton and the stranger?

parallels

What is Faustian legend?

pursuing knowledge at all costs in the hope of concurring death

What is the allusion in letter #2? Explain

rime of the ancient mariner; he says he wont shoot and albatross

Just before Victor departs, his mother catches _________ from Elizabeth.

scarlet fever

Victor's mother has been nursing Elizabeth back to health and, but then Victor's mother _________

she died

what is the relationship between the author of the letters and the person to whom it is addressed

sister

What does Walton consider a friend?

someone who is an intellectual equal

The stranger spends two days recovering before he could _______

speak

What advice does Waldman give Frankenstein?

study all branches of natural philosophy

What does the stranger hope about Walton's dream?

that if Walton's wish is granted that they: "are not like a serpent who stings, as a stranger wishes granted had been

what specific story about his lieutenant makes Walton admire him

the Russian lady and poor man the lieutenant's mistress was in love with a poor man but her dad did not let her marry him because he was poor so the Lieutenant gave the poor man a farm and livestock

what does walton say prompts the stranger to begin telling his cautionary tale

to share his knowledge, warn Walton that the persuit of knowledge can backfire

daemon

what is the thing of gigantic stature called

a friend

what is walton's greatest desire

What is Pathetic Fallacy?

when nature mirrors what happens with the characters or the story

The next morning they encounter another sledge stranded on ice. The man on the sledge is weak and starving and refuses to board the ship until Walton tells him __________

where they are going

surprisingly, before getting on the vessel, the stranger wants to know what

where they are headed

Robert Walton

who are the letters written by

Mrs. Margaret Saville

who are the letters written for

what does the stranger look like

wild eyes, very sick

what does Walton intend to do upon hearing the stranger's tale

write it down

does Walton seem confident in achieving his aim

yes

does he have positive feelings about traveling to the location

yes


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