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Romantic Era Walton Letters Chapters 1-2 Chapters 3-5 Themes/ Symbols

Who wrote Frankenstein? (Spell it correctly!)

Mary Shelley

Who was Mary Shelley’s husband?

Percy Shelley

Who supposedly suggested the idea of writing Gothic stories while the weather was bad?

Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Who came up with the idea of ‘negative capability’?

John Keats

Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? (2 possible answers)

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who is Captain Walton writing to?

His sister in England

Where is Walton’s ship headed?

The North Pole

Give one example of how Walton is a Romantic character.

Loves nature, optimistic, trying writing poetry when he was younger

Give one example of how Walton is NOT a Romantic character.

Loves science, driven to find answers

What is the situation when Walton and his crew see Victor and the creature?

They are trapped in ice

Who is Victor’s ‘cousin’ whom the Frankenstein family unofficially adopted?

Elizabeth

Who is Victor’s best friend during his childhood?

Henry Clerval

What event inspires Victor to study science?

He sees lightning strike a tree

Who is narrating the story in Chapters 1-2?

Victor Frankenstein

Name one of the 3 authors Victor loved to read as a child.

Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus

Who is Mr. Krempe?

The first teacher Victor meets at the college

Who is Mr. Waldman?

The second teacher Victor meets, the one who inspires him to learn more about chemistry

Where does Victor go to college?

Ingolstadt

Compare / Contrast Waldman’s and Krempe’s views about the authors Victor had read.

Krempe says they are a complete waste of time, Waldman says they have value but are outdated

Describe Victor’s dream in Chapter 5 (after the creature is created)

Sees Elizabeth in Ingolstadt, she dies when he tries to hug her, turns into the corpse of his mother

The creature might be symbolic of?

Humans losing control of science/technology

Victor and the Creature ending up in the frozen north might be symbolic of…?

The coldness/lack of feeling they have in common

Walton shows he is a Romantic when he talks about the north as a place of eternal ____

Light

How are Walton and M. Shelley similar?

‘Trapped’ by the weather, Romantics, nature provides hope for them both

What is one Gothic element seen so far in the story?

Lightning, Victor talks about death and darkness, sudden changes in weather, arrival of the monster, etc.

Love/appreciation of nature, the rights of the individual, belief in the process and of imagination rather than concrete fact

Romanticism

Romanticism is sometimes called counter-______, because it is a reaction in opposition of this previous ‘era’

Enlightenment

Supernatural or frightening elements in a story, made popular during the late 1700s and early 1800s

Gothic

Both Mary Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, were considered early representatives of this movement

Feminism

A typical character during the Romantic era was the ____ hero, a flawed, rebellious character

Byronic (Lord Byron)