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Frankenstein Study Guide This study guide IS NOT comprehensive; there will be s

Frankenstein Study Guide This study guide IS NOT comprehensive; there will be some material on the test that IS NOT on this study guide. Make sure to study your quizzes and past worksheets. This study guide is worth 20 points! Fill in the character that fits with each description. Also write whether the character is alive or dead by the end of the novel: A. The hideous creation of our protagonist. He is intelligent and sensitive, but his feelings of abandonment compel him to seek revenge against his creator. B. The Artic seafarer to whom Victor is relating his story. He relates Victor’s tale to his sister, Margaret Saville, in England. C. Victor’s childhood friend. His cheerfulness counters Victor’s moroseness. D. She is raised as Victor’s cousin, they later marry. She embodies the novel’s motif of passive women, as she waits patiently for Victor’s attention. E. Her death is the original reason Victor decides to study how to reanimate matter and eventually to stop death altogether. F. The Monster learns to speak and read partly because of this woman’s education in the same subjects. G. His death is the first of many in the novel; he is the adorable and much beloved youngest son of the Frankenstein family. H. A young girl adopted into the Frankenstein household. She is executed for a crime that she did not commit. I. The protagonist of the novel, he changes from a naïve young man fascinated by science into a revenge-driven man who is determined to destroy his creation. Short answer questions: 1. Who is writing Victor Frankenstein’s story and why? 2. Victor states, “If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free” (pg. 111). What point is Victor trying to make? 3. The symbol of FIRE is introduced in ch. III (pg 119)—what are the two opposite effects that fire can produce and what might fire symbolize? 4. The monster learns an important lesson in Chapter V about human nature as he learns about history. What is this lesson (pg. 139)? 5. As the monster becomes self-aware, his sorrow increases with knowledge (pg. 140). How does this compare/contrast to Victor’s desire from question #2? 6. What two characters from Paradise Lost does the monster compare himself to in Chapter VII? Why might he compare himself to these two? 7. Volume III has plenty of examples of foreshadowing—list one example from the text below and include a quote: 8. When Victor believes that he is about to die while floating aimlessly in the ocean, he states: “How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!” (pg. 212) What deeper meaning might this quote hold, for both Victor and the monster? 1 9. Shelley writes of the peaceful and calm landscape at the end of ch. III—why does she write about the landscape and the feelings that it evokes in such detail? What might she be attempting to do to the reader? Write 2-3 sentences explaining how these themes are present in the novel: 1. Dangerous Knowledge: 2. Sublime Nature: 3. Life/Death: Write 2-3 sentences explaining how these motifs are present in the novel: 4. Passive Women: 5. Abortion: Write 2-3 sentences explaining how this symbol is present in the novel: 6. Light/Fire: Your test will feature exposition questions; you will have to choose at least TWO of the following questions to answer in a grammatically correct paragraph. Your answer should include examples from the text. YOU DO NOT NEED TO ANSWER THESE FOR THE STUDY GUIDE. THESE ARE SHOWN JUST SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. YOU CAN ANSWER THEM TO HELP YOU PRACTICE FOR THE TEST. 1. What powers does the text attribute to nature with regard to human happiness? Follow the fluctuations in Victor's relationship to and interpretations of his natural environment: 2. Trace the "light" imagery—what are the connotations of "light" at various points in the book? 3. Why can't ordinary humans accept the Monster’s appearance? What does this inability imply about the basis of human community? In other words, why so much emphasis on physical similarity or dissimilarity? 4. Why might it be construed as "poetic justice" (of an infernal sort) that Victor Frankenstein's worst catastrophe comes just after he is married? 5. Discuss the final usage made of fire and the natural setting. Why is it significant that the Monster decides to destroy himself? Why is it appropriate that he will do this when he reaches the North Pole? 2 uploads/s3/ frankenstein-study-guide.pdf