Frankenstein Study Guide Verified Answers

Frankenstein Study Guide Verified Answers 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? ️️Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? ️️He is writing to Margaret, his sister. 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? ️️When Walton writes Letter 1 he is at the St. Petersburg. He is there because he needs to hire a crew for his ship. Plans to sail to the North Pole in order to discover magnetisms' secrets. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? ️️Self educated, loves to read, father died, loves adventure and discovery. Wishes he had a friend along to share it with. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"? ️️Walton is sailing to the north. Walton's question shows his faith in the Romanticism. Emotion over reason 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors? ️️One month has gone by. The ship is trapped in ice and fog 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? ️️He says he is looking for the one who fled from him. He asks for which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death and very weak. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man The man appears to be mysterious. ️️"This person" is Victor: Educated, well-spoken, refined. Walton is fascinated by him. 9. How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again? What has happened in the meantime? How does the man respond to Walton's project? How is Walton responding to the man? ️️Walton begins writing the biography of this man the very next day. This man has slowly regained his strength and his health. The man tells Waldon that his quest for knowledge and and his project will end in misery. Walton becomes intrigued and wants to hear his side of the story. 10. How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again ? What has happened in the meantime? How does the man respond to Walton's project? Why does the man agree to tell his story? ️️The man agrees to tell his story because he can see that Walton is looking for knowledge as he once was. Victor hopes that it won't end in a disaster for Walton as it did for him. 11. What is the man's background? (Do we know his name yet?) Where is he from? ️️We don't know his name. He is from Geneva, Switzerland. He was greatly loved and adored by his parents. 12. What is the story of the man's mother, Caroline Beaufort? How does the man feel toward his parents, and what responsibilities does he feel they had toward him? ️️Caroline's father and Frankenstein Sr, were friends. Once Caroline's father died Caroline married Frankenstein Sr. Victor's mother died. He loved his parents. He felt as though it was his parents responsibility to raise him the right way. Holds his parents responsible for his sadness and happiness. 13. Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story? What gift does the man's mother give him? Do we know the man's name yet? Do we know his family name? ️️Victor's parents adopted Elizabeth Lavenza, she was an orphan. The man's mother gave him Elizabeth. This is the first time that we figure out Victor's name. We don't know his family name. 14. Who is Henry Clerval and what is his relation to Victor? ️️Henry Clerval is Victor's childhood best friend. He is the son of a merchant from Geneva. 15. How does Victor characterize the interests and characters of Clerval, Elizabeth, and himself? ️️Clerval was interested in romantic literature. He acted in plays with Victor. He was intrigued in being moral. Elizabeth was captivated by poetry but she didn't want to learn it. Victor was always intrigued by science, always wanted to learn more. 16. Who is Cornelius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him? How does Victor's father respond, and how does Victor comment on that response? ️️Cornelius Agrippa is a scientist that studied alchemy. Victor finds out about him by reading a book. Victor's father says that Agrippa's work is nonsense. The books are unscientific and outdated. 17. What sort of science ("Natural Philosophy") is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus? How would a modern scientist respond to this sort of thinking? ️️Victor is learning alchemy from Magnus, Agrippa and Paracelsus. Modern scientists would believe that this thinking is silly. Goal was to find the fountain of youth. 18. What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning and hears an explanation? What does Victor then begin to study? ️️When Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning and hears an explanation, he decides to study galvanism and electricity. 19. Who or what does he credit for this change in direction? Who or what does he blame for his "utter and terrible destruction"? ️️He acknowledges Krempe for this change in direction. He blames Waldman for his destruction. Waldman is his chemistry professor. Kempe-> Good encouraged. Waldman -> Chem= destruction 20. What happens to Elizabeth and to Victor's mother as a result of Elizabeth's scarlet fever? How does this compare with the mother's early history? ️️Caroline comes down with scarlet fever and eventually dies after she restores Elizabeth back to health. Caroline's dad dies in an identical situation. 21. Why does Victor's father send him to the University of Ingolstad? How old is Victor then? (Ingolstadt is in southern Germany, in Bavaria, on the Danube, 43 miles north of Munich. The university founded there in 1472 moved to Landshut in 1802 and to Munich in 1826.) ️️Victor's father sends him to the University of Ingolstad because he thinks that Victor should study in another country. At this time, Victor is 17. 22. What does Victor learn from M. Krempe? How does Victor respond to him, and on what grounds? Is this a good basis for making such a decision? ️️Victor learns about natural philosophy from M. Krempe. Victor is troubled about this idea. Dislikes M. Kempe. 23. What does Victor learn from M. Waldman? How does Victor respond to him? How does Victor think of his older science as opposed to modern science? What does M. Waldman say in describing modern chemistry that changes Victor's mind? What does Victor say he will now do? ️️Victor learns that scientists are very powerful and can do miracles. Victor is astonished a