Frank enstein
Letters 1-4
1. Who is writing the letters and to whom is he writing?
2. Where is the writer? Why is he there? What had influenced him?
3. How does he meet Victor Frankenstein?
4. How does Walton feel about Frankenstein?
5. Why is Frankenstein in the Arctic?
Chapters 1-5
1. Who is telling this part of the story?
2. How did Victor's parents treat him as a child?
3. How does Elizabeth come to live with the Frankenstein family? How did Mrs.
Frankenstein's childhood factor in?
4. How does Victor feel about Elizabeth from the moment they meet?
5. Who is Victor's closest friend?
6. How do Henry and Victor's interests differ?
7. What event causes Victor to become so interested in electricity?
8. Where does Mr. Frankenstein decide to send Victor to college?
9. What tragedy befalls the Frankenstein family?
10. What goal did Frankenstein decide to pursue? How did he think he would be
viewed if he succeeded?
11. How does Frankenstein go about creating his masterpiece? How is he conflicted and
what happens to him while he works?
12. How does Frankenstein feel when he succeeds in bringing the creature to life?
How does he react to it and his feelings? How in this way is Victor acting
irresponsibly?
13. What toll has creating his creature taken on Frankenstein?
Chapters 6-10
1. What news does the letter from Elizabeth bring?
2. How and why does Frankenstein change his course of study?
3. What helps Frankenstein recover?
4. What news does the letter from Mr. Frankenstein bring to Victor?
5. Who does Frankenstein see outside the gates of Geneva when he returns home? What
is he certain of, and what does he wonder?
6. Who was accused of the murder and why? What is Frankenstein's reaction to the
accusation?
7. What dilemma does Frankenstein have, and what does he decide to do about it?
8. What happens to the accused murderer? What is Frankenstein's reaction and state of
mind as a result?
9. What is Frankenstein certain of, and what does he decide he must do?
10. Where does Frankenstein go to seek relief? Why?
Chapters 11-15
1. When Frankenstein meets the creature in the mountains, how does he react to it?
What warning does the creature give?
2. How does the creature criticize Frankenstein? What does that tell us about the
creature? What does he want of Frankenstein?
3. For the first time, what does Frankenstein feel toward his creation?
4. From whose point of view will the story now be told?
5. What feelings does the creature have upon awakening?
6. How does the creature survive? How does he learn? What does all this say about him?
7. How do the villagers react when they encounter him?
8. Where does he take shelter?
9. What observations does the creature make about the people living in the cottage?
10. How does the creature feel about this family?
11. How does the creature learn to speak and to read?
12. What confuses the creature when he learns about males, females, reproduction,
families, etc?
13. How did Safie and Felix meet?
14. As he reads and observes the family, what increasing feelings and confusion does the
creature have?
15. What piece of literature has the biggest impact on the creature? Why?
16. What keeps the creature from approaching the De Lacey family, and what finally
prompts him to do it? What is Mr. De Lacey's reaction when the creature speaks to
him?
17. What is the reaction of the rest of the family when they see him?
Chapters 16-20
1. After the incident with the De Lacey family, whom does the creature blame?
2. What mistake does the creature realize he made? What does he intend to do?
3. What has happened to the De Lacey family? What is the creature's reaction?
4. Describe the encounter by the river. How does this leave the creature feeling?
5. What happens with the next human the creature encounters? How does he feel
afterward?
6. What does the creature ask Frankenstein to do? Why? What promise does he make?
7. What is Frankenstein's reaction to the request?
8. What is keeping Frankenstein from marrying Elizabeth?
9. What does Frankenstein do to his next creation? Why? What is the creature's
reaction?
10. What happens when Frankenstein goes ashore in Ireland?
Chapters 21-24 & the end of letters
1. Who is the creature's most recent victim? Why?
2. What happens at Frankenstein's trial?
3. What is Frankenstein's state of mind?
4. When Elizabeth worries about what is wrong with Victor, what is his reply?
5. What happens on Victor and Elizabeth's wedding night? What happens to Victor's
father as a result?
6. What is the magistrate's response when Frankenstein tells him the whole story?
7. What does Frankenstein decide to do after he leaves the magistrate?
8. What request does Victor Frankenstein make of Robert Walton?
9. What happens to Frankenstein? To the creature?