Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The daughter of Beaufort. After her father's death, she is taken in by, and later marries, Alphonse Frankenstein. She dies of scarlet fever, which she contracts from Elizabeth, just before Victor leaves for Ingolstadt at age seventeen.

Caroline

Where Victor tried to find peace after Justine's death...

Chamounix

Victor spent a lot of time in (blank) houses getting body parts

Charnell

Henry (blank) was Victor's best friend

Clerval

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

Henry

Who takes care of Victor when he falls ill after creating the monster?

Henry Clerval

. Who is accused of the murder of Henry Clerval?

Victor

He made the creature

Victor

The doomed protagonist and narrator of the main portion of the story. Studying in Ingolstadt, discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent but grotesque monster, from whom he recoils in horror. 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.

Victor

To whom is Victor taken after Henry is murdered?

Kirwin

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.

Krempe

What do Elizabeth and Alphonse assume is the source of Victor's unhappiness?

Lack of desire to marry Elizabeth

To whom does Walton address his letters?

Margaret Saville

"You are my creator, but I am your (blank)"

master

Walton was afraid of this if he didn't head home

mutiny

The author of Frankenstein is Mary (blank)

Shelley

The type of fever Victor tended to fall into

nervous

Victor became interested in galvanism after seeing lightning strike this

oak (tree)

Walton became one for a year

poet

What does the monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?

poverty

The creature called the cottagers his (blank)

protectors

This drove the creature after Felix beat him and the cottagers left

revenge

The type of fever that probably killed Victor's mother

scarlet

What is the monster's reward for saving a girl from drowning?

shot

What the creature and Victor both drove across the ice

sledge

The cottagers were imprisoned and impoverished for helping a (blank)

turk

When written?

1816

When published?

1818

setting

18th century

To which character(s) in Paradise Lost does the monster compare himself?

Adam and Satan

One of the cottagers, Felix's sister

Agatha

Victor's father, very sympathetic toward his son. Consoles Victor in moments of pain and encourages him to remember the importance of family.

Alphonse

The eight-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation of Victor Frankenstein. Intelligent and sensitive, attempts to integrate himself into human social patterns, but all who see him shun him. His feeling of abandonment compels him to seek revenge against his creator.

Creature

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

Elizabeth

Victor's soul mate and bride

Elizabeth

Victor's surviving brother

Ernest

The cottager who thought he was defending his father

Felix

Where Victor's family lived...

Geneva

Country where the creature took up residence in a hovel near the DeLacey's cottage

Germany

Where does Victor first have a conversation with his monster?

Glacier

Where Victor went to pursue his studies

Ingolstadt

Where Victor's parents were staying when he was born

Italy

A young girl adopted into the Frankenstein household while Victor is growing up. Blamed and executed for William's murder, which is actually committed by the monster.

Justine

She was executed even though she was innocent of murder

Justine

Who is convicted of the murder of Victor's younger brother, William?

Justine

A family of peasants, including a blind old man; 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.

Peasants or DeLaceys

Allusion to greek and roman myth of (blank) whom created men from clay and stole fire from mt olympus

Prometheus

With what is Walton obsessed?

Reaching North Pole

What does Walton do after Victor dies?

Returns to England

The creature learned to read by watching the cottagers instruct her

Safie

Elizabeth begged the crowd not to let Justine perish there

Scaffold

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.

Waldman

What is the name of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods of modern science?

Waldman

The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein. 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.

Walton

The captain who was driven by some of the same desires as Victor

Walton

Victor's murdered brother

William

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

William

Victor was fascinated by (blank) like Paracelsus

alchemists

Where Victor placed the torn remains of the female creature

basket

The creature approached the senior DeLacey because he was (blank)

blind

The mothers of Elizabeth and Mary Shelley both died as a result of this

childbirth

retrospective framed in letters

epistolary

The creature was enraged when William hurled these at him

epithets

The creature demanded that Victor make one

female

Victor often refers to the creature as the (blank)

fiend

Walton complained to his sister that he didn't have one

friend

Frankenstein is a (blank) novel

gothic

The ship was surrounded by this

ice

How does Victor react to seeing Henry's corpse?

ill

The novel opens with four of these destined for Mrs. Saville

letters

The incriminating evidence found in Justine's pocket

locket

"and now it is ended; there is my last (blank)"

victim

"I shall be with you on your (blank) night"

wedding