Frankenstein Chapter 13 - 24
two months
How long did it take the Creature to gain a basic understanding of what the cottagers were saying?
20
How many words did Felix cover in the first French lesson?
end of December
When did Victor arrive in England?
the Creature left victor a sign that he was heading to the North to which Victor followed him, but locals let him know that the Creature had set off on boat to a place with no land and that he would surely die if he followed him, so he gave up and found Walton's ship on the way back
How did Victor end up at the North Pole with Walton?
Victor was sickened by the creation of a new Creature, but worked tirelessly regardless
How did Victor feel about creating a new Creature?
he followed the course of the rivers and used his money to gain the trust of locals to give him hints about the creature's location, housing, and food
How did Victor survive during his search for the Creature?
William struggled against him, calling him names and screaming in terror
How did William react to seeing the Creature?
Felix would teach Safie French which the Creature would listen in on and learn from
How did the Creature learn to speak French?
Agatha fainted, Safie ran out of the house, and Felix ripped the Creature away from Mr. DeLacey
How did the cottagers react to finding the Creature?
that the Creature will kill Victor
How does Victor interpret the Creature's threat: "I will be with you on your wedding night" ?
He was not linked to anyone
How is the Creature similar to Adam?
he was envious of the happiness of others
How is the Creature similar to Satan?
false
Safie progressed faster than the Creature in learning French, T or F
Volney's Ruins of Empires
What book did Felix teach Safie from?
Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and Sorrows of Werter
What books did the Creature find on the forest floor that gave him much pleasure and allowed him better analyze his emotions?
she became thinner and was the only person able to calm Victor from his fits
What changed about Elizabeth when Victor returned to Geneva?
he says he is a traveler looking for a place to rest
What cover does the Creature use to enter the DeLacey house?
he would spend days on the lake to ease his mind
What did Frankenstein do to pass time when not working?
marrying Elizabeth
What did Frankenstein's father keep pressing him about?
Mr. Kirwin, who showed Victor sympathy after listening to his fits of pain in French and understood that Victor couldn't express his innocence in English, wrote to Victor's father after finding letters in Victor's jacket
What did Mr. Kirwin do to help Victor?
she knelt before the old man to kiss his hand but he insisted that she stand up and hug him
What did Safie do to greet old man DeLacey?
Safie sang along with the guitar of old man delacey
What did Safie do to show off her talents?
she liked that she could climb the ranks by her own accord in Christianity and that was why she left Turkey once her father left her alone and her servant died
What did Safie like about Christianity that made her leave Turkey and abandon Islam?
he believed he was the cause of Justine, William, and Clerval's deaths
What did Victor believe about himself?
fearing for the safety of his father and Ernest, he left for Geneva immediately slipping in and out of a feverish state
What did Victor do in reaction to seeing Elizabeth dead?
he tore the creature apart, felt again as if he had murdered someone
What did Victor do when the Creature showed up and pressed him for the completion of the second Creature?
she may be more vicious than the original creature, she had not agreed to leave humans alone like the original had, she may not like the original creature, children may be created and more creatures could roam the earth and threaten humans
What did Victor fear about bringing another Creature to the original one?
he looked forward to sleeping so that he could meet his loved ones in his dreams
What did Victor look forward to the most?
some money and his mother's jewels
What did Victor take when he departed from Geneva to chase the Creature?
put all the clay parts of the creature in a basket with stones and threw it into the sea
What did he do with the parts of the broken second Creature?
he would never be kind towards man and would especially dislike his creator
What did the Creature declare after being rejected by the cottagers?
he left marks on trees or stones about clues to his location
What did the Creature do to taunt Victor?
destroyed the garden then set the house on fire and left for Geneva to find Victor since he mentioned that was where he lived and left in autumn
What did the Creature do when he found out Felix sold the cottage?
he was smiling at Victor and pointed to Elizabeth's dead body before he fled
What did the Creature do when he made eye contact with Victor?
Felix sold their cottage back to the owners and fled the German countryside
What did the cottagers do after discovering the Creature?
Frankenstein's log of the Creature's creation taken from the pocket of the dress he stole from Frankenstein's lab
What did the creature possess that allowed him to find out that Frankenstein did not like him from the start?
Elizabeth wishes to keep their relationship as siblings, but if he really does insist on marrying her she will agree to it
What does Elizabeth say in her letter to Victor?
Frankenstein tells the crew to man up since they agreed to this trip and should not return failures, but as heroes
What does Frankenstein say to Walton's crew who wish to return home?
Victor asks Walton to kill the creature for him should he die before he is able to do it
What does Victor ask of Walton before he dies?
he can only get along with another of his species; he wants a female version of his species so that he will be happy
What does the Creature conclude he needs in order to be happy and leave humans alone?
acorns and berries
What does the Creature eat?
he promises to set himself on fire to die since he committed such heinous crimes and pitied Victor for being the recipient of the same hate and pain that he received
What does the Creature promise to do after visiting Victor's body?
he was found to be on Orkney Islands during the time of Clerval's death
What evidence allowed Victor to be released from prison?
Felix and Safie's letter and the faint form of the Creature
What evidence made Walton believe Victor's story?
Daniel Nugent witnessed Victor on the boat near where he discovered the body while fishing
What evidence was their to support Victor's guilt?
he woke up in prison after being deemed insane for how he acted and was released because people understood he was no longer a danger to himself
What happened after Victor's father died?
Victor heard a scream from Elizabeth's room and found her draped across the bed, strangled
What happened to Elizabeth?
Safie's father was put into prison due to disagreement with the government. Meanwhile, Safie and Felix exchanged letters in secret because Safie's parents disliked the idea of her marrying a Christian. Safie's father escaped from prison and allowed for Felix to marry Safie on the condition that he hide his knowledge of Safie's father's whereabouts in Italy. However, when he left he took Safie with him and news spread to the Parisian government that Felix and his family were aware of the whole plan and they were jailed for 5 months.
What happened to the DeLacey family that put them into poverty?
brought before Mr. Kirwin, the magistrate, to be tried for the murder of man found off the coast
What happened when Victor awoke on the shore of Ireland?
he fell asleep and the boat drifted all the way to Ireland
What happened when Victor was on the boat?
they made him question the nature of knowledge in that he realized that he was an outlier in the cottagers and human world; made him question what he was since he never followed the traditional sense of human life having no parents or relations
What impact did reading historical texts have on the Creature?
guitar
What instrument did the old man of the cottage often play?
they were once a high ranking French family in Paris brought to ruin by Safie's father
What is an important fact about the DeLacey family's past?
why did Frankenstein have to create such an ugly creature that would be feared by man and be incapable of obtaining their love
What is the reason the Creature loathes Victor so much?
knowledge only proves to him more and more that his existence is disliked
What is the significance of knowledge to the Creature?
he carried pistols and knives on him at all times and was very jumpy
What measures did Victor take to protect himself from the Creature after his marriage?
he felt the fiend strangling him in his sleep
What nightmare did Victor have repeatedly once he returned from Ireland?
Christian Arab
What religion is Safie's mother?
the ship is surrounded by ice and should they be freed, Walton should let the crew go home to England
What situation arises in September on Walton's ship?
when saving a little girl, a man shot the creature even thought he helped the girl which solidified his anger at man
What situation made the Creature certain about his animosity towards man?
the Creature would harm his family back home
What was Victor's biggest fear?
they found a place in the German countryside and Safie's father insultingly sent them money to stay afloat, but not enough to survive on
What was happened after the DeLacey family's release from prison?
to be a good person was man's highest honor, to be cruel and vicious was man's greatest dishonor; he could not conceive why any person would wish to harm another
What were the Creature's ideas regarding the values of man?
8 pm and it began to rain very hard
What were the conditions of their arrival to Villa Lavenza?
end of September
When did Victor leave for England?
the day after their marriage
When did Victor plan to tell Elizabeth the secret of the Creature?
March 27th
When did they leave England for Scotland?
September 12th
When does Frankenstein die?
10 days from when he told his father of his agreement to the marriage
When would the marriage take place?
he wanted to work in India to see the various languages and work in the trade and colonization there by the British
Where did Clerval seek to work?
Clerval accepted the invitation to spend time in Perth, Scotland while Victor went to Orkney Islands to work on his creature after going to Scotland
Where did Victor and Clerval go after receiving the invitation from the Scottish visitor?
he broke into a fever again and in two months woke up in prison
Where did Victor find himself after finding out Clerval was killed?
South America
Where did the Creature promise to go after he got his companion?
the cemetery where Victor's friends and family are buried
Where did the chase for the Creature start?
Elizabeth's possession of a piece of land in Como by the Austrian government allowed them to stay at Villa Lavenza for their honeymoon
Where would their honeymoon take place?
Elizabeth arranged for Clerval to join Victor on his journey to Strasbourg to discuss with the English philosophers
Who accompanied Victor on his journey to England?
Henry Clerval, strangled to death
Who was murdered in Ireland?
he felt obligated as his creator to rid humans of the threat he posed
Why did Victor agree to make the Creature a female companion?
he couldn't muster the motivation or courage to endure the creation of another Creature again and he needed to meet with natural philosophers in England to discuss ideas
Why did Victor delay his work on The Creature's companion?
he wanted to make Elizabeth and his father happy despite threats to his life by the Creature
Why did Victor go through with marrying elizabeth despite the Creature's threat?
he was occupied with working on the second creature and felt that he was guilty of crimes because of his part in the death of Justine and William
Why did Victor isolate himself once he got to England?
he felt he could not tell his father the secret of the Creature because he felt wholly responsible for the deaths of his friends and family by creating him
Why did Victor keep the Creature a secret from his father?
he framed Justine because she was human and he believed that the justification for his crimes was in the unkindness of man, thus she being human, made her a part of the reason he committed crime and therefore should be blamed
Why did the Creature frame Justine?
he thought the picture of the woman (victor's mother) was beautiful and took it
Why did the Creature take William's locket?
he thought William may be unprejudiced and could be a suitable companion for him
Why did the Creature want William to be his friend?
he agreed to give Victor the resources to kill the Creature, but believed that from Victor's account of the story, the Creature would be too powerful and Victor would be disappointed by the outcome and thus it would be useless to try
Why did the judge not grant Victor's request for help after being released from prison?
he is blind and cannot judge the Creature for his appearance
Why does the Creature wish to pursue DeLacey's goodwill first?