Frankenstein

Prometheus

the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind

lightning

The natural phenomena that influenced Victor.

Earnest

The only Frankenstein to survive.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The poem about the albatross that mimics Frankenstein.

The Creature

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

Henry Clerval

"He was a boy of singular talent and fancy. He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger for its own sake. He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance."

William

"Hideous monster! Let me go. My papa is a Syndic—he will punish you. You dare not keep me."

Victor

"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch with whom such infinite pains and cares I had endeavored to form."

The Creature's threat

"I Will be with you on your Wedding Night"

Justine

"I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution."

The Creature

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..."

Margaret

The recipient of the letters in the novel.

Describes Elizabeth

"She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, pale features."

Robert Walton

"You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend."

Elizabeth

"a pretty present" for Victor; "since till death she was to be his only"

Describes Alphonse

"his eyes had lost their charm and their delight—his Elizabeth whom he doted on with all that affection. Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs. He could not live under the horrors that accumulated around him; he died in my arms."

Describes Felix

"the young man often went out of the hut but appeared to weep. He seemed unhappy for no reason"

The end of the Creature

'He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance'.

Paradise Lost

(1167) an epic poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the Christian story of the rise of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Elizabeth's beginning

Elizabeth was an orphan who Victor's parents adopted from some peasants.

A locket with a picture

Evidence planted on Justine

DeLacey

His blindness will prevent him from being horrified by the Creature.

Professor Waldman

His lecture on the history of chemistry shows more sympathy for the alchemists who had excited Frankenstein's imagination, and from that time on, Frankenstein looks to him as a mentor and a "true friend"

Setting

Most of the novel takes place in the Swiss Alps near Geneva.

Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein?

She wrote it as a response to a challenge to a contest by Lord Byron and her husband, Percy Shelley, to think of a horror story. Whoever wrote the best story would be declared the winner.

A female creature

The creature's request

Agatha

The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play, and to produce sounds, sweeter than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.

Professor Krempe

This teacher was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine.

Henry Clerval

Took care of Victor when he was ill