Frankenstien

Translate this quote into easy-to-understand language: "Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us," (the Monster, Chapter 10).

The monster tells Victor he knows Victor hates him and that he can only be separated from Victor if one of them dies.

M. Waldman - Who were was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

He is a Chemistry professor at Ingolstadt who Victor likes.

William Frankenstein - Who was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

He is the brother of Victor Frankenstein who is murdered by the monster.

Alphonse Frankenstein - Who was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

He is the father of Victor. When his sister dies he takes his niece Elizabeth in to live with the family.

How does your theme change or develop during this first part of the novel?

Ambition and Falibility. At the beginning of the story Victor is really ambitious to discover new things and animate dead flesh. After he creates the Monster he loses his ambition and he thinks it was a mistake to create the Monster.

Robert Walton - Who was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

An explorer traveling to the North Pole who finds Victor on the ice near death. Victor is telling him his story.

Translate this quote into easy-to-understand language: "During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture. It was to be decided, whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow-beings: one a smiling babe, full of innocence and joys; the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror," (Frankenstein, Chapter 8).

During the trial of Justine Victor felt guilty because the monster he created murdered William and now innocent Justine will be hanged for the crime.

c. How does this novel fit into the Gothic genre?

Gloomy, decaying setting - graveyard and morgue for body parts Supernatural - Frankenstiens monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants) Curses or prophecies - the Monster vows to kill everyone close to Victor

Why does the author use different narrators to frame the story?

I gives us different perspectives or point of views about what other people are thinking during the story.

Translate this quote into easy-to-understand language: "These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life," (Walton, Letter 1).

Robert read and loved his books on sailing but he was sad because before his father died he asked his uncle to not allow Robert to be a sailor.

The Monster - Who was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

The creature created by Victor Frankenstein while he was at Ingolstadt.

Justine Moritz - Who were was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

The housekeeper for the Frankenstein family. She is found guilty of William's murder and hanged but she is inocent.

What features of this novel fit the Romantic era in literature?

There is a lot of use of imagination; there is idealization of women and children and rural life; there is a lot of emotion and use of the supernatural.

Translate this quote into easy-to-understand language: "So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein, -- more, far more, will I achieve: treading the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation," (Frankenstein, Chapter 3).

Victor is saying that many things have been done in the world and he will do many things and discover answers to things in the world that are mysteries.

Translate this quote into easy-to-understand language: "Were we among the tamer scenes of nature, I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions, which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature: -- nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed," (Frankenstein, Letter 4).

Victor is telling Robert that there are many things in the wild that are not believable to people who haven't been in the wild and he thinks his story has evidence that shows it is true.

Translate this quote into easy-to-understand language: "M. Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences," (Frankenstein, Chapter 6).

Victor was disgusted that he created a monster so it was painful when his Professor praised him for his progress in the sciences.

Henry Clerval - Who were was this person? What was their relationship to Victor?

Victor's best friend who helps Victor when he gets sick..