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Frankenstein Focus Questions Letters 1-4

1. Who is Mrs. Seville? 2. From reading the first letter, what can you infer about R. Walton's character and explain what

his purpose is.

3. In the second letter, what does Walton desperately want and miss?

4. Walton makes an allusion in his second letter. Identify the allusion and briefly explain it.

5. In the August 5th portion of the fourth letter, Walton encounters two things on the ice. What are they?

6. What did the man want to know before he was willing to come on board Walton's ship?

7. What did the stranger answer when he was asked why "he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle?" 1

8. In the August 13th portion of the fourth letter, what can you infer about how Walton feels about the stranger? Provide quotations as support.

9. What reason does the stranger give Walton for wanting to tell his own story? 10. Whose point of view are the letters told from? 11. What is the purpose of Mary Shelley opening the novel with these letters?

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Frankenstein Focus Questions Chap 1-5

1. Who are Beaufort and Caroline Beaufort?

2. Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and briefly describe her situation?

3. Who is Henry Clerval?

4. From the description on page 23-26, what can you infer about the narrator?

5. After reading Chapter 2, what do you think the narrator's primary motivation was for seeking knowledge?

6. How did the narrator's mother die and what did she say would calm her as she neared death?

7. How did the narrator feel about M. Krempe compared to how he felt about M. Waldman? 3

8. "...from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me--a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple...that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret" (pg 38). What does this quote say about the narrator and what is the "astonishing secret" he is referring to?

9. In the narrator's quest for glory and fame, what is he neglecting?

10. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe" (pg 43). What is the catastrophe the narrator is referring to and what is significant about his diction?

11. Explain the narrator's reaction to successfully completing his project.

12. Whose point of view are Chapters 1-5 told from?

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Frankenstein Focus Questions Chap 6-10

1. Who are Ernest and William?

2. Who is Justine Moritz?

3. What happened to William?

4. After hearing the news of William, Frankenstein leaves school and goes home. He visits a specific place (pg 62). What does he see?

5. How much time has passed since Frankenstein completed the monster?

6. What was Justine accused of?

7. Elizabeth addresses the court on Justine's behalf (pg 70-71). What was the result of her speech? 5

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