Frankenstein Reading Journals (page numbers follow

the Frankenstein, Pocket Books edition, 2004, ISBN: 0-7434-8758-3):

Letters 1-4 (pages 7-26)

#1: What do you think spurs people to explore the unknown?
Chapters 1-7 (Volume 1, pages 27-97)
#2: How do you define personal responsibility? When something bad happens that
involves you, how do you know whether or not you bear some responsibility for it?
(Discuss hypothetical situations: A falls off B’s roof while mending it. B walks by A,
who is homeless and begging on the street. B lends A his car, which has faulty brakes,
and A has an accident.)
Chapters 10-14 (Volume II, pages 98–160)
#3: What are some reasons why a person might be rejected by others?
Chapters 15-16 (Volume II, pages 160-179)
#4: Why is it important to love and be loved?
Chapters 21-22 (Volume III, pages 183-248)
#5: Why is having a name so important? What does having a name mean and symbolize?
Chapter 23 (Volume III, pages 249-275)
#6: Many people see the characters of Victor and the Creature as doubles of each other,
or doppelgangers. Do you agree? Why or why not? What do they have in common?
Where do they differ?
Reviewing the novel
#7: How do you think Frankenstein (the monster) errs as a human being? What traits or
attributes, do you think, led to the creature’s fate?