Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Notes

Question 1

When was Mary Shelley born?

Answer 1

August 30, 1797

Question 2

Mary Shelley’s mother?

Answer 2

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 3

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

Answer 3

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Question 4

What were Mary Wollstonecraft’s occupations?

Answer 4

Author and female rights activist

Question 5

What did Mary Wollstonecraft argue for?

Answer 5

Education and value of women

Question 6

Who was Mary Shelley’s father?

Answer 6

William Godwin

Question 7

What were William Godwin’s occupations?

Answer 7

Author and philosopher

Question 8

Mary Shelley was born in the aftermath of the _____________ ________ (1803-1815) and the rise of the _____________ __________.

Answer 8

Napoleonic Wars, Industrial Revolution

Question 9

Mary Shelley’s mother died of __________ _______ 8 days after Mary’s birth.

Answer 9

Puerperal Fever

Question 10

William Godwin later married ________ _______ ____________.

Answer 10

Mary Jane Clairmont

Question 11

Did Mary get along with her step mother?

Answer 11

no

Question 12

Percy B. Shelley was married ________ _______, who was pregnant with his child, when he met Mary Shelley. She was translating the ___________ when he met her.

Answer 12

Harriet Shelley, Aeneid

Question 13

Mary and Percy ran off together when she was 16 (almost 17) to France and took her step-sister, __________ ___________ with them.

Answer 13

Claire Clairmont

Question 14

Estrangement with _________ resulted for almost 2 years until she finally married Percy.

Answer 14

father

Question 15

Percy Shelley was a ___________ poet and author.

Answer 15

Romantic

Question 16

meaning of Romantic

Answer 16

heightened awareness, nature

Question 17

Mary and Percy’s first child was born 22 Feb 1815 (2 months premature), but the baby died 6 March. (She lost __ more children in the next __ years.)

Answer 17

2, 3

Question 18

What made Mary Shelley begin obscuring the line between life and death?

Answer 18

She dreamed that her baby came back to life.

Question 19

Mary Shelley’s works (4)

Answer 19

Frankenstein (1818)
Mathilda (1819)
Valperga; or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823)
The Last Man (1826)

Question 20

Full name of Frankenstein

Answer 20

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Question 21

Meaning of modern in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Answer 21

Scientific

Question 22

Frankenstein was published in ________ when Shelley was only ____ years old.

Answer 22

1818, 19

Question 23

She started writing it in 1816 as a result of a _____ ______ __________ involving Mary, Lord Byron, Percy, and Byron’s doctor, Dr. Polidori.

Answer 23

ghost story competition

Question 24

Dr. Polidori wrote _____ __________ during this competition and had it published in 1819. _________ and other vampire stories evolved from this novel.

Answer 24

The Vampire, Dracula

Question 25

How many versions of Frankenstein have been published? Best?

Answer 25

3, 1st

Question 26

It was originally published ____________ with a preface by Percy Shelley, so people assumed it had been written by __ ______.

Answer 26

anonymously, a man

Question 27

The novel is set in the late _______, all over Switzerland, Germany, and the Arctic.

Answer 27

1700s

Question 28

The _________ form, which means that a novel is comprised of ________, creates a story within a story within a story.

Answer 28

epistolary, letters

Question 29

_______ ________ in epistolary format were a popular genre during Shelley's time, and she even kept her own epistolary journals when she and Percy travelled together after leaving England.

Answer 29

Travel journals

Question 30

She referred to her travel journal while writing Frankenstein. Notice Victor's hometown is ________, which is where Shelley was when she wrote her story.

Answer 30

Geneva

Question 31

Through this format 3 people tell the story: _______ ________, ________ _______ and ______ _________.

Answer 31

Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton, and the creature

Question 32

Significance of Justine's name

Answer 32

mock justice

Question 33

Significance of Victor's name

Answer 33

mock victory (made life, ended badly)

Question 34

Significance of the creature not having a name

Answer 34

dehumanizes, not worthy of a name, not claimed by anyone

Question 35

Is the novel meant to condemn scientific exploration?

Answer 35

no

Question 36

__________ and _______ _________ constantly talked about scientific exploration in front of Mary, and she was interested in it.

Answer 36

Percy and Lord Byron

Question 37

muscle spasms in dead form when electricity is used.

Answer 37

galvanism

Question 38

Double self or shadow

Answer 38

doppelgänger

Question 39

_______ become parentless and isolated, like his ________.

Answer 39

Victor, creature

Question 40

How does Frankenstein become a Cain figure?

Answer 40

He kills loved ones through his creature

Question 41

Why is the creature a doppelgänger for Mary?

Answer 41

She was rejected by her father (after she eloped with Percy)

Question 42

The creature has the physical description of a ______. (p. 35)

Answer 42

man

Question 43

The creature is a product of Frankenstein's hubris, or _______.

Answer 43

pride (Frankenstein's pride made the creature that killed him)

Question 44

The creature battles some of the same issues _______ of this time period battled.

Answer 44

women

Question 45

Some of the issues the creature and women of this time faced. (3)

Answer 45

oppression isolation lack of readily accessed education

Question 46

Just as women were educated at home by a _______ ________, the creature is also educated at home by the De Lacey family while they are educating Safie.

Answer 46

family member

Question 47

Frankenstein's creature embodies the ideas of philosophers ______-________ _________ and ______ _______.

Answer 47

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke

Question 48

Locke believed that humans are born with a ________ _____ or a blank slate and our environment shapes and molds our values.

Answer 48

tabula rasa

Question 49

_______-_________ is another aspect of Locke's philosophy.

Answer 49

Self-knowledge

Question 50

Rousseau believed that humans are born instinctually ______, but we learn evil from our interactions with _______.

Answer 50

good, society

Question 51

How does the creatures education begin and continue?

Answer 51

It starts with its senses to discover the world, then observes the family to learn the norms and codes of society.

Question 52

The creature learns to read and write by watching _______.

Answer 52

Safie

Question 53

The creature reads _________ ______, ________ ____ ________ _________, and __________ _________.

Answer 53

Paradise Lost, Sorrows of Young Werter, and Plutarch's Lives

Question 54

Author of Paradise Lost

Answer 54

John Milton

Question 55

Author of Sorrows of Young Werter

Answer 55

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 56

Author of Plutarch's Lives

Answer 56

Plutarch

Question 57

Because Prometheus sympathized with the humans, he stole ____ from the ____ and gave it to the ______.

Answer 57

fire, gods, humans

Question 58

"Pour torrents of light into a dark world" is from _________

Answer 58

Prometheus

Question 59

For stealing fire from the gods to give to the humans, Prometheus was punished by ______.

Answer 59

Zeus

Question 60

Prometheus is later freed by ________ in Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.

Answer 60

Hercules

Question 61

Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Answer 61

Coleridge

Question 62

What is similar to the Purgatory in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Frankenstein?

Answer 62

Victor-creates the creature and is punished by the creature. | Creature-denied humanity, not alive but not dead.

Question 63

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the self is trapped in isolation similar to _______ in Frankenstein.

Answer 63

Victor

Question 64

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein they are traveling _______ (direction)

Answer 64

north

Question 65

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner all of the crew/family dies similar to how all of _________'s family dies.

Answer 65

Victor

Question 66

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a guest is telling the story similar to how __________ ________ is telling ________'s story.

Answer 66

Robert Walton, Victor

Question 67

In Paradise Lost, the story of the creation of ______ and ______ is told. It focuses on God's relationship with his two humans and ________ as well.

Answer 67

Adam, Eve, Satan

Question 68

Like Paradise Lost, Frankenstein deals with the creation of a ________.

Answer 68

human

Question 69

Victor Frankenstein successfully creates a natural man, but his error lies in his refusal to ______ ___ and to take responsibility for it. He never ever gives the creature a _______.

Answer 69

love it, name

Question 70

Victor mocks the power of God by creating another human being. ___________ also displaces God from the creation of humans. Shelley was wary of childbearing since she lost 3 children.

Answer 70

Childbearing

Question 71

When was Romanticism?

Answer 71

1798-1832

Question 72

__________ is highly regarded as Romanticism followed by the Enlightenment (a highly logical, ordered, balanced, and structured era).

Answer 72

Imagination

Question 73

What placed new emphasis on horror, terror, and awe?

Answer 73

Romanticism

Question 74

Romanticism included _______ _________ of the artist or narrator.

Answer 74

heroic isolation

Question 75

Romanticism valued ________ over ________.

Answer 75

passion, reason

Question 76

This period began with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.

Answer 76

Gothicism

Question 77

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey _______ the values of Gothicism.

Answer 77

mocks

Question 78

In Gothicism, _____________ strand based on Milton's Paradise Lost is developed in a character.

Answer 78

Satanic

Question 79

What style includes supernatural, horror, and mysterious elements?

Answer 79

Gothicism

Question 80

What style has an ominous tone?

Answer 80

Gothicism

Question 81

Gothicism has _______ in the atmosphere

Answer 81

darkness

Question 82

In Gothicism, a victimizer exists who is associated with _____. A helpless victim is set against his _________.

Answer 82

evil, torturer

Question 83

In Gothicism, there are ________ landscapes.

Answer 83

extreme

Question 84

a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. It may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context.

Answer 84

epigraph

Question 85

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" is the epigraph for __________.

Answer 85

Frankenstein

Question 86

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" is originally from _________ _____.

Answer 86

Paradise Lost

Question 87

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" in Paradise Lost ________ says this.

Answer 87

Adam

Question 88

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" in Frankenstein the _________ would have said this.

Answer 88

creature

Question 89

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" ______ is aligned with the _________ through this epigraph.

Answer 89

Adam, creature

Question 90

Responsibilities of creator?

Answer 90

Take care of creation

Question 91

Responsibilities of creation?

Answer 91

Listen to creator and learn