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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Romantic Era Walton Letters Chapters 1-2 Chapters 3-5 Themes/ Symbols
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Who wrote Frankenstein? (Spell it correctly!)
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Mary Shelley
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Who was Mary Shelley’s husband?
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Percy Shelley
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Who supposedly suggested the idea of writing Gothic stories while the weather was bad?
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Lord Byron (George Gordon)
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Who came up with the idea of ‘negative capability’?
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John Keats
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Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? (2 possible answers)
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who is Captain Walton writing to?
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His sister in England
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Where is Walton’s ship headed?
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The North Pole
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Give one example of how Walton is a Romantic character.
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Loves nature, optimistic, trying writing poetry when he was younger
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Give one example of how Walton is NOT a Romantic character.
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Loves science, driven to find answers
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What is the situation when Walton and his crew see Victor and the creature?
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They are trapped in ice
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Who is Victor’s ‘cousin’ whom the Frankenstein family unofficially adopted?
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Elizabeth
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Who is Victor’s best friend during his childhood?
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Henry Clerval
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What event inspires Victor to study science?
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He sees lightning strike a tree
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Who is narrating the story in Chapters 1-2?
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Victor Frankenstein
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Name one of the 3 authors Victor loved to read as a child.
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Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus
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Who is Mr. Krempe?
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The first teacher Victor meets at the college
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Who is Mr. Waldman?
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The second teacher Victor meets, the one who inspires him to learn more about chemistry
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Where does Victor go to college?
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Ingolstadt
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Compare / Contrast Waldman’s and Krempe’s views about the authors Victor had read.
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Krempe says they are a complete waste of time, Waldman says they have value but are outdated
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Describe Victor’s dream in Chapter 5 (after the creature is created)
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Sees Elizabeth in Ingolstadt, she dies when he tries to hug her, turns into the corpse of his mother
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The creature might be symbolic of?
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Humans losing control of science/technology
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Victor and the Creature ending up in the frozen north might be symbolic of…?
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The coldness/lack of feeling they have in common
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Walton shows he is a Romantic when he talks about the north as a place of eternal ____
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Light
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How are Walton and M. Shelley similar?
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‘Trapped’ by the weather, Romantics, nature provides hope for them both
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What is one Gothic element seen so far in the story?
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Lightning, Victor talks about death and darkness, sudden changes in weather, arrival of the monster, etc.
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Love/appreciation of nature, the rights of the individual, belief in the process and of imagination rather than concrete fact
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Romanticism
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Romanticism is sometimes called counter-______, because it is a reaction in opposition of this previous ‘era’
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Enlightenment
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Supernatural or frightening elements in a story, made popular during the late 1700s and early 1800s
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Gothic
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Both Mary Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, were considered early representatives of this movement
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Feminism
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A typical character during the Romantic era was the ____ hero, a flawed, rebellious character
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Byronic (Lord Byron)
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