English: Frankenstein Test Review

DeLacey: Family

A family of peasants, including a blind old man, De Lacey; his son and daughter, Felix and Agatha; and a foreign woman named Safie. The monster learns how to speak and interact by observing them. When he reveals himself to them, hoping for friendship, they beat him and chase him away.

Caroline Beaufort

After her father's death, Caroline is taken in by, and later marries, Alphonse Frankenstein. Dies of scarlet fever, which she contracts from Elizabeth, just before Victor leaves for Ingolstadt at age seventeen. Beaufort - A merchant and friend of Victor's father; the father of Caroline Beaufort.

Elizabeth Lavenza

Elizabeth Lavenza is the orphan child taken in by the Frankenstein family, who was lovingly raised with Victor Frankenstein Later becomes Victor's wife and is killed by the monster on their honeymoon: strangled Elizabeth was the daughter of a Milanese nobleman and a German mother. 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.

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.

Krempe

A professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt. He dismisses Victor's study of the alchemists as wasted time and encourages him to begin his studies anew.

Agrippa

At the age of 13, Victor discovers the works of Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, all alchemists from an earlier age. His voracious appetite for knowledge thus begins, and eventually leads him to study science and alchemy.

Alphonse Frankenstein

Father to Victor, Ernest, and William Husband to Caroline Beaufort Uncle and adoptive father of Elizabeth Very sympathetic toward his son. Alphonse consoles Victor in moments of pain and encourages him to remember the importance of family.

Safie

Felix becomes ecstatic the moment he sees her. The woman, who does not speak the language of the cottagers, is named Safie. She moves into the cottage, and the mood of the household immediately brightens. As Safie learns the language of the cottagers, so does the monster. Upon her arrival, Safie did not speak French, the language of the De Lacey family, so Felix undertook to teach her. The important thing to note is Safie was pivotal in his education. Without her, the Creature would not have learned

Chamounix

Frankenstein traveled to Chamounix to escape his guilt and depression, but while he was in Chamounix, the monster approached him about creating a female monster companion for him. The monster lived in an ice cave not far from Chamounix.

Henry Clerval

Friend and schoolfellow of Victor and Elizabeth from childhood; murdered by the Creature. Victor describes him as an only child, "the son of a merchant of Geneva, an intimate friend of my father. 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.

Geneva

Home of the Frankenstein family where Victor grew up and to which he returned after college and the creation of the monster. The murders of William and Justine were located in the area around Geneva.

Justine Moritz

Justine lives with the Frankenstein family as a servant after her mother dies. When William is murdered, the monster puts a photograph that William was carrying in her pocket, and she is accused of murder. She confesses falsely to the crime out of fear of going to Hell. She is executed.

Margaret Seville

Sister of Robert Walton and the recipient of the letters that constitute the novel. Although her brother's confidante, she disapproves of his expedition

Mr. Kierwin

The magistrate who accuses Victor of Henry's murder.

Waldman

The professor of chemistry who sparks Victor's interest in science. He dismisses the alchemists' conclusions as unfounded but sympathizes with Victor's interest in a science that can explain the "big questions," such as the origin of life.

Parallel Structure

The repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern

Orkney Islands

Victor goes there to work on the creation, Victor stays in a hut on one of the sparsely populated Orkney Islands to create a second creature to be a companion to the monster, Henry dies

Victor Frankenstein

Victor is the oldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein. Victor's childhood is a good one. His doting parents lavish him with attention. He even receives a present, in the form of Elizabeth Lavenza, from his parents. 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.

Ireland

Victor lands there after the voyage He is first arrested because Clerval's body was found, and who else but a murderer would be floating on a makeshift raft? Also, it was Victor's monster who killed Clerval.Indirectly, Victor was responsible for his creations' murders.

Ingostadt

Victor went to college in Ingolstadt and created the monster in his laboratory there. This was the city of the monster's awakening.

Italy

Where they got Elizabeth

William Frankenstein

William Frankenstein Victor's youngest brother Killed by the monster: strangled 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.

Ernest Frankenstein

Younger son of Alphonse and Caroline Frankenstein; brother to Victor and William. Victor Frankenstein describes his younger brother: Ernest was six years younger than myself, and was my principal pupil. Elizabeth tells Vctor this in the form of a letter

Foil

a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.

Suspense

a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.

Allusions

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Foreshadowing

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

Imagery

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.