Unit 3 Outcome 1A: Essential Knowledge

Characters Events Events Context of the Author

 Robert Walton 1. Explorer Robert Walton looking for a new passage from Russia to the 23. From the notes, the monster learns of his creation. He has endured  Percy Shelley
 Margaret Seville Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. rejection by mankind, but he has not retaliated upon mankind in general o Atheist
 Victor Frankenstein 2. After weeks as sea, the crew of Walton's ship finds an emaciated man, for his misfortune. Instead, he has decided to take revenge on his creator's o Poet
 Alfonse Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein, floating on an ice flow near death. family to avenge the injury and sorrow he endures from others. o Husband
 Caroline Beaufort 3. In Walton's series of letters to his sister in England, he retells Victor's 24. Victor refuses to make a second monster, but is convinced when the  William Goodwin
 Elizabeth LaVenza tragic story. monster assures Victor that he will leave Europe and move to South o Philosophical anarchist
 Henry Clerval 4. Growing up in Geneva, Switzerland, Victor is a precocious child, quick to America. o Father
 M. Kempe learn all new subjects. 25. Victor agrees to begin work on a second creation and makes plans to go to  Mary Wollstonecraft
 M. Waldman 5. He is raised with Elizabeth, an orphan adopted by his family. England and Scotland, with Henry Clerval, to begin his secret work. o A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
6. Victor delights in the sciences and vows to someday study science. 26. Before he leaves Geneva, Victor agrees to marry Elizabeth immediately o Died during birth of Mary
 Monster
 Earnest Frankenstein
7. Victor prepares to leave for his studies at the University of Ingolstadt, upon his return from the British Isles.  Lord Byron
when his mother and Elizabeth become ill with scarlet fever. 27. Victor takes up residence in the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. o Poet
 William Frankenstein
8. Caroline dies from the disease, and Elizabeth is nursed back to health. Victor destroys his project and goes out to sea to dispose of the remains.  Summer trip to Geneva
 Justine Moritz
9. At the university, Victor meets his professors M. Krempe and M. The monster vows revenge on Victor not upholding his end of their o The challenge of writing a ghost story set.
 Old Man Waldman. bargain.
 Agatha  Parents were distinguished and celebrated authors
10. For two years, Victor becomes very involved with his studies, even 28. While at sea, Victor's boat is blown off course by a sudden storm, and he  Lived in the country as a child in Scotland
 Felix impressing his teachers and fellow students. ends up in Ireland.
 Safie  Dreamer, interested in fantasy, reality was dreary
11. He devises a plan to re-create and reanimate a dead body. He uses a 29. Henry Clerval's body has washed up on the shores of Ireland, and Victor is  Under pressure from P Shelley to prove worthy of her parentage
combination of chemistry, alchemy, and electricity to make his ambition set to stand trial for murder.
 ‘silent listener’ to Shelley and Byron
a reality. 30. Fortunately, Mr. Kirwin, a local magistrate, intercedes on Victor's behalf
Setting 12. After bringing the creature to life, Victor feels guilty that he has brought and pleads his case before a court, which then finds Victor innocent of the Context of the world in which the text was set
 Setting a new life into the world with no provisions for taking care of the crime.  Written in 1816, published in 1818
o Dark "monster." 31. Victor is miserable knowing he has caused the deaths of so many, but  Locke:
o Foreboding 13. He runs away in fear and disgust from his creation and his conscience. recovers enough to finalize the plans for his marriage to Elizabeth. o Tabula rasa
o Isolated 14. The monster wanders the countryside while Victor seeks solace in a 32. With a wedding date set, Victor torments himself with the thought of the  Rousseau
o Rugged tavern near the university. monster's threat to be with him on his wedding night.  Galvanism
 Geneva: Geneva, Switzerland. Home of the Frankenstein 15. Henry Clerval appears to save Victor and restore him to health. 33. The wedding goes off as planned. While Victor makes sure he covers all  Vivisections
family where Victor grew up and to which he returned 16. Alphonse writes to Victor telling him to come home immediately since an possible entrances that the monster could use to get into the wedding  Body snatching
after college and the creation of the monster. The unknown assailant murdered his youngest brother, William, by chamber, the monster steals into Elizabeth's room and strangles her.  Alchemy
murders of William and Justine were located in the area strangulation. 34. Victor now wants revenge and chases the monster through Europe and  Fantasmagoriana
around Geneva. 17. Justine Moritz, their housekeeper, is falsely accused of the murder of Russia.  French Revolution
 Ingolstadt: Ingolstadt, Germany. Victor went to college William, and she goes to the gallows willingly. 35. Victor nearly catches the monster near the Arctic Circle when Robert  Industrial Revolution
in Ingolstadt and created the monster in his laboratory 18. Victor knows who the killer is but cannot tell his family or the police. Walton discovers him. Victor, now near death, is taken aboard Walton's o Luddites
there. This was the city of the monster's awakening. 19. He journeys out of Geneva to refresh his tortured soul and visits Mount ship to recover from exhaustion and exposure.  Romanticism
 Mont Blanc: A mountain near Geneva. This mountain is Montanvert when he sees the monster coming to confront his maker 36. Walton’s crew threaten mutiny.  Neo-classicism and the enlightenment
referred to again and again in descriptions of scenery with a proposition — "make me a mate of my own." 37. The monster appears out of the mists and ice to visit his foe one last time.
 Prometheus
throughout the novel. It carries weight as a mark of 20. Victor refuses, and the monster asks that his part of the story be heard. 38. The monster enters the cabin of the ship and tells Walton his side of the
o Titan
Romanticism because it is the subject of a famous poem The pair retreats to a small hut on the mountain where the monster tells story.
o Made man
by Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley's husband. his story. 39. Victor dies, and the monster tells Walton that he will burn his own funeral
o Tricks Gods
 North Pole: Destination of Robert Walton and his ship 21. The monster has taught himself to read and understand language so that pyre.
o Attempts to give fire to humans
as well as the monster and Victor. he can follow the lives of his "adopted" family, the De Laceys. 40. Walton turns ship towards home.
o Punished for going behind Gods’ backs
 Chamounix: While Frankenstein was in Chamounix, the 22. While the monster wanders the woods, he comes upon a jacket with a 41. The monster then disappears in the waves and darkness, never to be seen
 Paradise Lost
monster approached him about creating a female notebook and letters that were lost by Victor. again.
o John Milton
monster companion for him. The monster lived in an ice
o Felix culpa (fortunate fall)
cave not far from Chamounix.
o Adam, Eve, God, Satan
 Orkney Islands: Orkney Islands, Scotland. Victor stays in
a hut on one of the sparsely populated Orkney Islands to  Sorrows of Werther
create a second creature to be a companion to the o Goethe
monster. o Finds moral emptiness in the world
 Plutarch’s Lives
Structure/Form Style/Literary Devices Textual Interpretations/Readings o Character shapes destinies of individuals and the state
 Frame narrative  Allusions  Jungian  Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 Epistolary novel  Imagery  Marxist o Samuel Coleridge
o Letters  Symbolism  Feminist o Mariner
 Gothic/horror genre  Use of the sublime and supernatural  Structural o Crew
 Tragedy  Suspense and terror  Post-structural o Albatross
  Villain-Hero (Victor)
Critique  Psychoanalytical o Murder
  Unreliable narrator
Epigraph  Overarching scientific interpretation o ‘Death’
 The grotesque o ‘Night-mare Life-in-Death’
 Critique of revolutionary ideology
 Dopplegänger
o Safety
 Foils
o Saved
 Tension
o Cursed
 Paradox
o Burden
 Metaphor
o Supernatural
 Simile
o Superstition
 Irony
o Ship