English 2 - Frankenstein Notes

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The burnt cat shuns the fire Is applied to...

Childhood

The Modern Prometheus is a metaphor for

Frankenstein

The full title of the book we are reading

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus

Identify the motif: "No creature could have more tender parents than mine"

Gratitude

Identify the motif: Alphonse Frankenstein looking after his friend Beaufort who was hiding in shame because of his poverty

Gratitude

What is the major theme in Frankenstein?

Gratitude

Victor Frankenstein's desire to have complete ____________, to know the secret of __________ creation, is associated to the ___________ bargain.

knowledge; human; Faustian

Victor wants to steal a secret - a secret of...

life

Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein are _______ ____________. They see similarities in each other.

mirror characters

Henry _________ the creature the moment he took a glance of him

nurses

What is Frankenstein to the audience?

parable

Another word for foreboding

portent

punish something by punishment

retribution

Elizabeth had caught the ______ _____

scarlet fever

inherits money/power

scion

Describe the creature's countenance

straight black lip, lustrous, black flowing hair; dull yellow eye; teeth of a pearly whiteness

Moral of Frankenstein

take care of your child, they didn't ask to be born

"Early in the morning before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the out-house, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand." Who is the invisible hand?

the creature

Identify the speaker: "I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I was, have made me what I am."

the creature

Identify the speaker: Food, however, became scarce; and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.

the creature

Who is the speaker: I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with blood of your remaining friends.

the creature

Who is the speaker: This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it

the creature

Who is the speaker: This was then the reward my benevolence!

the creature

William was murdered by who?

the creature

After the murder of Clerval, I returned to Switzerland, heart-broken and overcome.

the creature (speaking to robert)

Alas! He is cold, he cannot answer me

the creature (talking to robert)

Victor Frankenstein is a perfect example of a ________ _______

Byronic hero

Name the motif: Pig-stye

Allusion

Who is the speaker: My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this, it is sad thrash.

Alphonse/Victor's father

is what gods eat to stay immortal

Ambrosia

Another word for Byronic hero is...

Anti-hero

What is Henry Clerval's reading interest?

Arts (poetry, literature)

learn on his own (ex. the creature)

Autodidact

The creature is ________________

Autodidactic

Foreshadows electricity to create Victor

Blasted stump

Why does he know this? "Such was the history of my beloved cottagers."

Crack in the wall

How is the creature going to learn language?

Crevice

Frankenstein is _______________

Didactic

intended to teach

Didactic

to teach

Didactic

literature meant to teach a lesson

Didactic literature

Orphan/cousin/love-interest

Elizabeth

The quote below the title: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay/To mould me?/Did I solicit thee/From darkness to promote me?"

Epigraph

a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme

Epigraph

The novel belongs to __________ genre

Epistolary

Plant of immortality from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Exiler

__________ made a deal with the devil to exchange his soul for complete power and knowledge.

Faust

the belief that flowers have power

Flower power

Another word for opposite

Foil

What is the connection between Victor Frankenstein and Henry Clerval?

Foil characters

Who is the speaker: You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well fast as you can;

Henry

Victor's best friend

Henry Clerval

Who is the secondary character?

Henry Clerval

A hut, shelter

Hovel

Describes the place where the family lives

Hovel

Natural, native (ex. you were born in Texas therefore you're a native of the land)

Innate

"Human beings are born good, but something grows wrong as they grow up"

Innate goodness

charged with the "blackest ingratitude"

Justine Moritz

Mary Shell is a...

Liberal

believes that poverty is a terrible thing

Liberal

Do Victor and the creature ever get a chance to talk things out?

No

How many members of the family are there in Henry's in comparison to Victor?

Not alot

Famous book Mary Shell quoted on the title of the book

Paradise Lost

The creature's source which is his favorite book

Paradise Lost

the quality in art and literature that stimulates (evokes) pity, tenderness, or sorrow

Pathos

"I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep."

Pig-stye

"They were not entirely happy." Why weren't they entirely happy?

Poverty

The reference to the Bible: Pig-stye

Prodigal son

The professor who doesn't like Victor

Professor K

Who is the speaker: I am happy to have gained a disciple

Professor W

What does the role of the narrative compare to?

Ring

believed in the sublime power of nature to heal

Romantics

What is Victor's reading interest?

Science/Sci-fi

Why is Justine charged with the "blackest ingratitude"?

She is accused of killing William Frankenstein

What is the creature not born with?

Silver spoon

Where is the universality in this quote? "My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash"

Someone's treasure may be another man's trash (parents and children do not agree on what they do)

The events that happened during the time Mary Shell (1960s)?

The Vietnam War, Civil rights movement

Who actually killed William Frankenstein?

The creature

Who is Walton talking about? "He sprung from the cabin-window, as he said this, upon the ice-raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance."

The creature

Who is the speaker? "I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames"

The creature

Identify the speaker: "No creature could have more tender parents than mine"

Victor

Who is born with a silver spoon?

Victor

Who is the primary character?

Victor

The opposite of what you would expect (ex. You tell someone to watch their step but then you fall immediately after. How _____!)

ironic

I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

Walton

Identify the speaker: "He sprung from the cabin-window, as he said this, upon the ice-raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance."

Walton

Who is the speaker: But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil

Walton

Who is the speaker: My education was neglected, yet I was passionate about reading.

Walton

Who is the speaker: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

Walton

..but I shall kill no albatross, therefore do not be alarmed for my safety.

Walton (to his sister, Margret)

Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe

Walton (to his sister, Margret)

the baby of Frankenstein's family

William

Victor _________ the creature the moment he took a glance of him

abandons

make something less

assuage

Key line: Here then I retreated, and lay down, happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.

barbarity of man

The old man is ______ therefore the creature wants to talk to him

blind

Second theme in Frankenstein

creature's suffering

The creature does/doesn't express gratitude

doesn't

Henry's huge sacrifice to the creature

drop out of school

Another word for foreshadows

evil

Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein are both _________ seeking _____________, breaking boundaries.

explorers; knowledge

Take extreme joy

exult

against war, believe nature can heal, believed to live in a community (materialistic, free souls)

hippies

Does not express gratitude

ingrate

Elizabeth demonstrates

ingrate

Who is the speaker: I shall be forever grateful;and your present humanity assures me of success with those friends whom I am on the point of meeting

the creature (telling the blind man)

Prevent someone's success

to foil

defining by what something is not

via negativa


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