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Frankenstein: Literature Study Questions (Unit 3)
Chapter 13

1. Who arrives at the De Lacey home in the springtime, and what is her background? How does the creature benefit from her language barrier?
2. What sort of book does Felix use to teach Safie?
3. What impression about mankind does the creature gain after hearing the history lessons in this book?
4. What does the creature realize about himself when he begins to compare how humans gain power and respect to how he achieves those things? How does this new self-awareness make him feel?
5. What does the creature learn about family and parental relationships? How does that make him feel about himself?
Chapter 14
6. What did Felix do in Paris that resulted in his family being exiled from France and forced to live in this cottage in Germany?
7. How did Safie manage to avoid the fate of having to return to Arabia with her dastardly father, and instead make her way to the De Lacey cottage?

Chapter 15

8. After reading the books that he finds in a satchel in the forest, what comparison/contrast does the creature make between himself and Adam from the Bible?
9. What other reading material does the creature suddenly find in his coat pocket? Now that he can read, what does he learn about Victor from this material?
10. What is going on in Victor’s life during this part of the creature’s life? (Peek back at Chapter 6 if necessary.)
11. How does the creature plan to gain his first entry into the cottage and acceptance from Felix, Agatha, and Safie? How does his plan go wrong?

Chapter 16

12. What do the De Lacey’s decide to do with their cottage after the awful scene at the end of Chapter 15? With what feelings does the creature react to this decision, and what does he do to the cottage as a result?
13. What takes place as the creature travels through the forest on his search for Victor that makes him “vow eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind”?
14. Who is the boy that wanders near while the creature was resting in the forest? What does the creature plan to do with him before he learns the boy’s identity?
15. Who is the woman the creature finds asleep in a barn? What “mischief” does he decide to do while holding the portrait and watching her sleep?
16. What demand does the creature make at the end of Chapter 16, and why?
Chapter 17
17. How does Victor react to the demand? What consequence does he expect to get for his reaction?
18. What promise does the creature make if Victor will agree to his demand?
19. Why does Victor find it hard to believe this promise?
20. What decision does Victor finally announce to the creature about his demand? What is the creature planning to do while Victor carries out his decision.

Respuesta :

21.   How does Victor look to others, feel about himself, and behave toward his family when he arrives home in Geneva this time?Chapter 18
22.   How does Victor feel when his father offers the idea that perhaps an immediate marriage to Elizabeth might cure Victor's remaining melancholy?  Why does Victor feel the way he does about it?
23.   Why does Victor want to travel to England now for the next few months instead of staying in Geneva?  Who did Victor’s father arrange should travel with Victor?  Who else is probably going to “accompany” him?
24.   When Victor interrupts his own story and says the line near the end of Chapter 18 that begins with, “Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute…” what outcome for Henry do you think he is referring to (that has not yet happened)?Chapter 19
25.   Describe how Henry and Victor’s attitudes about their six months in London are different.  What is each of them hoping to gain from this journey?
26.   Describe the place where Victor goes when he leaves Henry behind at their Scottish friend’s house and travels to the farthest northern part of Scotland he can reach.  What is it like there, and why do you think he chose this location for his work?Chapter 20
27.   What thoughts make Victor change his mind just before he was about to complete the female?  Who is watching through the window as he destroys the female?
28.   Describe Victor’s explanation when the creature enters the hut to confront him about destroying the female.  What promise does the creature make as the last thing he says to Victor before he rushes out of Victor’s hut?
29.   What does Victor believe is the real meaning of the creature’s promise?
30.   What is in the basket that Victor hauls out to sea in the middle of the night?
31.   What country does Victor land in after he falls asleep in his boat and drifts for so long?  Why do the villagers there speak so rudely and suspiciously to him?
32.   What is Victor’s physical reaction when he hears one of the villagers giving testimony about what he had found while coming home from a fishing trip?  What did the witnesses and Mr. Kirwin, the magistrate, think as a result of Victor’s reaction?
33.   What has Mr. Kirwin found out about Victor while he lay unconscious in a fever for two months?  Who has Mr. Kirwin summoned to come from Geneva?
34.   What is the outcome of Victor’s criminal trial?  What evidence is given to prove this?
35.   What is the “one duty” on Victor’s mind as he and his father sail away from Ireland on their way home to Geneva?Chapter 22
36.   When Victor becomes too ill to travel and has to stop in Paris for a few weeks of rest on the way home to Geneva, he often refers to himself as the “murderer” of Justine, William, and Henry.  Why does his father not believe him and direct him not to say such things?
37.   What does Elizabeth want to know in her letter to Victor?  What does she say is the only way their marriage can truly make her happy instead of “eternally miserable”?  What is Victor’s answer to her inquiry?  What does he promise he will do the day after their wedding?
38.   After Victor and his father arrive home and a date is set for the wedding, what precautions does Victor take as he prepares for it?  What does he pack?  Where does he and Elizabeth go for their honeymoon?
39.   In the boat leaving Geneva after the wedding, what sort of mood does Elizabeth try to present for Victor’s sake?  What sort of mood does he nonetheless notice she seems to feel?
Chapter 23
40.   Why does Victor send Elizabeth to bed earlier than himself in the town of Evian on their wedding night?
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A few answers, but for more of a challenge and since there are so many questions you must match the answer with the question, by the way, I only have a few answers and site is listed above this bit of text:

1. Safie is from Turkey. Her father was wrongly accused and thrown into prison. Felix falls in love with her and teaches her French. The monster observes the reading lessons and learns faster than Safie.

2. F
elix teaches Safie how to read with Volney's Ruins of Empires.

3. 
The creature learns about the history of civilization and all the wars man has waged on one another.

4. 
The creature realizes he is the only one in existence like himself, he is monstrously ugly and he is utterly alone. He asks "What am I?" and "Who am I?" He feels absolute misery.

5. 
He hopes he will be befriended. They are horrified instead.
6. The De Lacey family fled France after trying to help Safie's father escape.

7. The monster learns about families and their love for one another. He longs for companionship and feels wretched.

8. 
Two years. Victor has been hiking and resting in Geneva.

9. 
Plutarch's Lives, Goethe's Sorrows of Werter, and Milton's Paradise Lost. He learns of man's cruel history of war, of man's melancholic nature and the noble thoughts of man in Paradise Lost.

10. 
Victor's notes and he learns who his creator is.

11. 
She found letters intended for her father that included the directions to Felix.

12. 
Finds a suitcase and some books.


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