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Ch
9-12
45.
How does
Victor respond in the days after Justine's death? How have
Elizabeth's views changed ?
46.
What
journey does Victor undertake, and when ? What places does he travel
through? Where does he stay?
47.
Where does Victor go the next day? Where does he go the
following day? P. B. Shelley mentions the glacier in a letter
written an Chamouni (his
spelling) on July 25, 1817:
48.
How does he feel during this part of his journey? (Notice
in this chapter that Frankenstein, in the late 1700s, is able to
quote a poem written by P.B.
Shelley in 1816.
49.
Whom does
Victor see? ? How does he respond ?
50.
In this
chapter, we finally hear the creature speak for the first time. What
does he say? Is this what we expect from the creature?
51.
What does
the creature ask of Victor ? What does the creature say to Victor ?
Does his language remind you of another literary work? How good is
Victor at performing the role of creator for his
creature?
52.
Why has
the creature caused the deaths of William and Justine? Is he as
inherently evil and bloodthirsty as Victor has assumed?
53.
What will
cause the creature to change? Keep in mind his statement "I was
benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I
shall again be virtuous".What sort of
psychological understanding is Shelley showing here?
54.
How good
of an ironic sense of humor does the creature have? (See the "hand"
bit )
55.
Does
Victor agree to listen to the creature's tale? What does Victor
begin to feel ? Where do they go?
56.
What does
the creature remember of his earliest days ? How does he seem to be
learning things? How well can the creature speak at this point of
his existence?
57.
How does
the creature respond to his discovery of the fire? Why does he move?
58.
What
happens during his first encounters with people ? Is this more like
what you expect from a horror story? But from whose point of view do
we
see these encounters?
59.
Where does
he finally find a place to stay ? What does he learn about the
people who live in the cottage? How does he feel toward them?
60.
How does
the creature continue to learn about the family he is watching? How
might a modern anthropologist or sociologist respond to the
creature's methods? What is the condition of
the family? How does the creature manage to help them?
61.
How does
the creature learn language ? Why might he have trouble learning
words such as "good, dearest, unhappy" ?
62.
What are
the names of the family members ? Who are Agatha and
Felix?
63.
What
things bother the creature when he thinks of discovering himself to
the family ? How does he respond to his own appearance when he sees
it?
64.
The
creature is still there when spring comes . What has been happening
to Victor in the meantime? (See Chapter 5.)
65.
How does
the creature hope to win over the family? How does he respond to the
coming of spring?
Ch
13-15
66.
Who
arrives at the cottage in the spring? What is Safie's
background? How does her language problem help the creature? Which
of them learns
faster?
67.
How does
the creature learn about reading? What book does Felix use to teach
Safie ?
68.
What does
the creature learn from this book? How much of a monster can someone
be who can say "but when I heard details of vice and
bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away
with disgust and loathing" ?
69.
What
happens when the creature begins to think about himself? How does he
compare with the humans described in the book? What questions
does he ask himself? How does his knowledge make
him feel?
70.
What does
he learn about human relationships, and how does this make him feel?
71.
How did
the De Lacey family come to be living in the cottage?
72.
How did
Safie come to find and join them?
73.
What does
the creature find in the woods?
74.
What are
the three books that the creature reads, and what does he learn from
each?
75.
What else
does the creature read and what does he learn from it ?
76.
How long
has it been since the creature came to life ? What is Victor doing
at this point? (See chapter 6.)
77.
What does
the creature hope will happen when he talks to De Lacey? What
actually happens?
Ch
16-18
78.
What
happens to the De Lacey family after the events of chapter 15? How
does the creature respond, and what does he do to the cottage?
79.
How does
the creature travel? Does this remind you of any other people's
travels?
80.
What event
during the creature's travels confirms his hatred of humans ?
81.
What event
happens when the creature is near Geneva ? Who is the boy? Who is
the woman?
82.
When
Victor visits the site of William's death in chapter 7, he says "I
had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight
was in
carnage and misery" . After reading the
creature's version of events, do you agree?
83.
What does
the creature demand from Victor ?
84.
How does
Victor at first respond to the creature's demand? What response does
he expect from the creature? What approach does the creature
say he will take?
85.
How
effective is the creature in convincing Victor?
86.
What does
the creature say will happen if Victor creates a female for him ?
87.
What does
Victor decide ? What does the creature say he will do while Victor
is at work?
88.
How does
Victor appear and respond to his family when he returns home?
89.
Why does
Victor's father think Victor might not want to marry Elizabeth?
90.
Why does
Victor want to visit England? What do you make of his talk of
slavery ?
91.
What is
the effect of Victor's return to the present?
Ch
19-21
92.
What are
Clerval's plans for his career ?
93.
Where does
Victor's journey end, and what does he plan to do there? Why is he
afraid ?
94.
Why does
Victor change his mind about creating the female? Who watches him as
he destroys the female?
95.
What
happens shortly after Victor destroys the female ? How is this
similar to what happened after Victor created the Creature?
96.
What
happens when the Creature visits Victor?. What does the Creature
promise to do? What does Victor understand that promise to mean ?
97.
What
happens when Victor goes out in a boat to dispose of the female
creature's remains? Where does he end up? What happens when he
lands?
98.
Who is Mr.
Kirwin and how does he treat Victor? What has happened to cause
Victor's arrest? What happens to Victor after his arrest?
99.
What
happens when Victor wakes up? Who is there?
100.
What
happens at Victor's trial?
101.
How does
Victor feel as they leave Ireland and go to France ?
Ch
22-24
102.
Why
doesn't Victor get home quickly?
103.
What does
Elizabeth say in her letter? How does Victor respond to her?
104.
What are
the marriage plans? How does Victor prepare for what he fears will
happen?
105.
How do
Victor and Elizabeth get to Evian and why do they stop there?
106.
Has
Victor understood the Creature's promise correctly? What happens on
Victor's wedding night?
107.
How does
the Creature respond?
108.
What
happens when Victor returns to Geneva? What happens to Victor's
father? What happens to Victor?
109.
What
happens when Victor tries to get the authorities to help him hunt
for the Creature?
110.
What
happens during Victor's pursuit of the Creature? Where to they go?
What does the Creature do?
111.
What
sustains Victor during his pursuit?
112.
What does
Victor ask Walton to do? What does he warn Walton about the Creature
?
Walton's letter
continues
113.
Why
wouldn't Victor tell Walton the details about the creation?
114.
How has
Victor come to understand himself ? How does Walton respond to
Victor's impending death?
115.
How does
Walton avoid the threat of a mutiny ?
116.
Why is
Walton returning to England ? What will Victor do?
117.
Does
Victor blame himself ? What is Walton's response to Victor's death?
118.
What
happens as Walton is writing ? What is the effect of shifting to the
present tense here?
119.
When
Walton sees the Creature in the cabin with Victor's body, what is
familiar about the scene? Why has the Creature come to see Victor?
120.
How does
the Creature explain what he has done? How does Walton respond to
the Creature?
121.
What will
the Creature do next? How does he feel about it?
122.
Do we see
the Creature die?
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