Frankenstein, Vol. 1 Discussion Questions

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Things to Consider:

• Nature
• Science & Ambition
• Religion
• Language:  Speech, Reading, & Writing
• Roles of Men and Women
• Relationship b/w Parents & Children
• Sexuality
• Birth & Death

** Homework Questions **
7:

• Why is Walton going to the North Pole?

21:

• What is Natural Philosophy?

21-23:

• Why does Victor get into Agrippa?
• Why isn't his father successful at first  in persuading him to stop reading him? How does his father get him to stop?

27:

• When Victor says, "I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth" (27),  what does he mean?

30:

• When Victor says, "To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death"(30),  what does he mean?

32:

• Why does Victor refer to his laboratory as a "workshop of filthy creation" (32)?

34:

• Explain the significance of the dream Victor has on the night of his "success."

47:

• Describe the MOOD Shelley develops in her description of the SETTING Of Geneva.

49:

• Why does Victor call the creature "my own vampire, my own spirit released from the grave"(49)?   What does that mean?

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Other Discussion Questions:
37-42:

• What is the nature of Victor's illness? Why does it fatigue him, even after several months recovery time, to write a letter?

43:

• What is an Orientalist?

47:

• Why is Victor so anxious about returning home?

48:

• When Victor says, "The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact"(48),  what is he referring to? What does he mean?

55-56:

• Does Justine kill William? Why does she confess?
• Why do so many people confess?
• 45,51:  Elizabeth
• 52,57:  Victor
• 55,56:  Justine

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