Name Frankenstein Study Guide Part I Date Block Set 1: 1. Who is writing the letter? To whom is he writing? 2. To where is the writer traveling? 3. Why does the man who is picked up by the ship say he is there? What is his physical and emotional state? Set 2: 4. Who is the stranger? Where is he from? What is the man s background? 5. Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story? Who is Henry Clerval and what is his relation to Victor? How does Victor characterize Elizabeth, Henry, and himself? 6. What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning? What does he then begin to study?
Set 3: 7. What happens to Victor's mother? 8. What roles do Victor's professors play in his studies? What sciences does he explore? Set 4: 9. How does Victor go about creating a human being? Set 5: 10. How is the Creature described? Why is Frankenstein disgusted and afraid of the Creature? 11. How does Victor s work consume him? What effects does it have on him, his dreams, and his hallucinations?
12. How does Henry help Victor? Set 6: 13. Describe the contents of the letter from Elizabeth. 14. When does Victor finally plan to return home? 15. What news does Victor s father give him? How does Victor respond? Set 7: 16. How long has Victor been away from home? 17. How long had it been since the Creature had been brought to life? 18. What does Victor now believe happened to William? How does he react?
19. Who has been identified as the murderer, and on what evidence? How does Victor respond to this news? Why doesn t he say anything about the real murderer? Set 8: 20. What happens at Justine s trial? Set 9: 21. How does Victor respond in the days after Justine s death? 22. What journey does Victor undertake? Why? 23. Whom does Victor see? How does he respond? Why is that ironic?
Name Frankenstein Study Guide Part II Date Block Set 10: 24. How does the Creature describe his early days of life? Analyze how the Creature is similar to an infant. 25. What things does the Creature notice about the family at the cottage? 26. What does the Creature learn from the family at the cottage? 27. What things bother the Creature when he thinks of revealing himself to the family? How does he respond to his own appearance when he sees it? 28. How does the Creature hope to win over the family?
Set 12: 29. What did the Creature find in the woods? What did he find in the pocket of the dress? How did it affect him? 30. What does the Creature tell the old man? How does the old man respond? 31. How does the family react upon returning to the cottage and seeing the Creature with the old man? Set 13: 32. How does the family s reaction to the Creature affect his view of himself and the human race? What questions does he begin to ask? 33. Where does the Creature decide to go? Why?
34. Describe the two encounters the Creature has in the woods. How do these encounters affect him? 35. Why does the Creature kill the young boy he finds in the woods? What was his original intention? Set 14: 36. What is the Creature s chief complaint? What does he demand? 37. How does the Creature blame humanity for his behavior? 38. What promise does the Creature make to Frankenstein?
39. What does Frankenstein decide to do? To what conditions does he make the Creature abide? Set 15: 40. What are the reasons Victor travels to England? 41. Why does he tell Clerval he wishes to continue his travels alone? Set 16: 42. Why does Frankenstein decide to destroy the female Creature? Who watches this happen? 43. What does the Creature vow to do?
Name Frankenstein Study Guide Part III Date Block Set 17: 44. Why does Victor row his boat out to sea in the middle of the night? 45. Why might the police be arresting Victor for murder? Set 18: 46. Explain what happened at Victor s trial. 47. Do you agree with Frankenstein that he is the true murderer and bears some responsibility for the deaths? Why? Set 19: 48. Describe the contents of the letter from Elizabeth.
49. What promise is fulfilled at the end of the section? Set 20: 50. What does the change in the weather at the beginning of Chapter 11 foreshadow? 51. What has happened to Elizabeth? Explain why this occurs. 52. What results after Victor s return to Geneva? Set 21: 53. How does Victor cope with the tragedies that have occurred?
54. Explain the conversation between Victor and the judge. 55. Why does Victor decide to leave Geneva forever? 56. Why does the Creature want Victor to stay alive, for the time being? 57. What does Victor vow on the top of page 29? 58. What does Victor ask of Robert Walton? Set 22: 59. What happens to Victor? 60. Describe the final event that occurs as told by Walton.
61. What does the Creature say he deserves? Why? 62. Explain the Creature s plans for his future. Closing Letters: 63. Why does Frankenstein refuse to tell Walton how he made the Creature? 64. Explain the conversation between the Creature and Walton. 65. Why does the Creature compare himself to Satan? 66. Describe the ending.