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CHAPTERS 10-15 23. Frankenstein comes face to face with his creature, what does the creature want and why? 24. How does the creature explain his feelings after he was first created? 25. What were the reactions of the villagers that the creature encountered and why did they react that way? 26. Where did the creature go and what observations does he make? 27. What does he learn? 28. What is the family’s reaction upon meeting the creature? CHAPTERS 16-20 29. What is the creature’s reaction? 30. Following the incident with the De Lacey family, what happens to the creature? 31. When the creature comes upon a little boy in the woods, what does he do? How does he feel? 32. What piece of jewelry does the boy have that the creature takes? Why and how does it become significant? 33. What does the creature ask Frankenstein to do and why? 34. How does Frankenstein react? 35. What threat does the creature make? 36. When Frankenstein returns to shore, what happens? CHAPTERS 21-24 37. Another murder has occurred. Who has committed it and why? 38. After the trial, what major event occurs in Frankenstein’s life? 39. What happens on the night following this event? 40. Frankenstein’s father is not well. Why? 41. What does Frankenstein decide to do? 42. What request does he make of Robert Walton? 43. What happens to Victor Frankenstein? 44. What happens to the creature?
VOCABULARY – INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, LETTERS 1. Dilate – Expand “…how I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?” 2. Odious - hateful His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handwork, horror-stricken. 3. Progeny – [proj-uh-nee] children, offspring And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. 4. Expedient –adj. suitable, practical; noun. a means to an end; resource It was commenced partly as a source of amusement and partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind. 5. Capacious –[kuh-pey-shuhs] spacious, roomy; capable of holding much I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans. 6. Ardent – passionate, enthusiastic I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties. 7. Emaciated – thin, wasted His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. 8. Wretched – miserable I never saw a man in so wretched a condition. 9. Paroxysm – [păr ək sǐze əm] spasm, convulsion; any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion Such words, you may imagine, strongly excited my curiosity; but the paroxysm of grief that had seized the stranger overcame his weakened powers… 10. Harrowing – distressing, agonizing Strange and harrowing must be his story. VOCABULARY CHAPTERS 1 - 5 1. Oblivion - state of being forgotten This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition, and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence,. 2. Rankling – irritating; to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful. …his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of an exertion. 3. Penury – [pen-yuh-ree] extreme poverty During one of their walks a poor cot in the folding of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.
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