frankenstein study guide

Victor becomes engaged to

Elizabeth Lavenza

Victor attends the university of

Ingolstadt

The monster succeeds in having good conversation with:

captain

Before Victor finishes building a second monster, he

destroys the new monster

Elizabeth Lavenza

(M) An orphan, four to five years younger than Victor, whom the Frankensteins adopt. In the 1818 edition of the novel, Elizabeth is Victor's cousin, the child of Alphonse Frankenstein's sister. In the 1831 edition, Victor's mother rescues Elizabeth from a destitute peasant cottage in Italy. Elizabeth embodies the novel's motif of passive women, as she waits patiently for Victor's attention.

Henry Clerval

(M) Victor's boyhood friend, who nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstadt. After working unhappily for his father, Henry begins to follow in Victor's footsteps as a scientist. His cheerfulness counters Victor's moroseness.

William Frankenstein

(M) Victor's youngest brother and the darling of the Frankenstein family. The monster strangles William in the woods outside Geneva in order to hurt Victor for abandoning him. William's death deeply saddens Victor and burdens him with tremendous guilt about having created the monster.

What is missing from William's possession

A picture of his mother

The monster demands that Victor

Create a mate for him

Frankenstein first lived in

Geneva

Justine Moritz

Hand maiden blamed for William's death and executed

What does the monster steal from Justine

Her life

Felix De Lacey

He unknowingly taught the creature to read and write, is the son of the blind M. De Lacey, and is the brother of Agatha.

The monster makes which of the following threats?

He will take his happiness

On an island between Scotland and Ireland, Victor is accused of killing

Henry Clerval

Who visits Victor at the University?

Henry Clerval

Who is originally accused of William's death

Justine

The De Lacey home is

Located in the Forrest

Victor is born in the city

Naples

Margaret Saville

Robert Walton's sister and the recipient of his letters, which frame the novel.

After creating the monster, Victor

Suffers a breakdown from exhaustion

Robert Walton

The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein. Walton picks the bedraggled Victor Frankenstein up off the ice, helps nurse him back to health, and hears Victor's story. He records the incredible tale in a series of letters addressed to his sister, Margaret Saville, in England.

The monster spends several months observing:

The De Lacey family

Victor Frankenstein

The doomed protagonist and narrator of the main portion of the story. Studying in Ingolstadt, Victor discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent but grotesque monster, from whom he recoils in horror. Victor keeps his creation of the monster a secret, feeling increasingly guilty and ashamed as he realizes how helpless he is to prevent the monster from ruining his life and the lives of others.

Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus

The professors who originally influenced Victor's interest in science and in nature.

Alphonse Frankenstein

Victor's father

Caroline Frankenstein

Victor's mother; died of scarlet fever when he was 17

Victor learns of his brothers death

letter from his dad

A drowning girl is saved by

monster