1. 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

2. Who wrote Frankenstein? (Spell it correctly!)

3. Mary Shelley

4. Who was Mary Shelley’s husband?

5. Percy Shelley

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

7. Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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

9. John Keats

10. Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? (2 possible answers)

11. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

12. Who is Captain Walton writing to?

13. His sister in England

14. Where is Walton’s ship headed?

15. The North Pole

16. Give one example of how Walton is a Romantic character.

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

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

19. Loves science, driven to find answers

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

21. They are trapped in ice

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

23. Elizabeth

24. Who is Victor’s best friend during his childhood?

25. Henry Clerval

26. What event inspires Victor to study science?

27. He sees lightning strike a tree

28. Who is narrating the story in Chapters 1-2?

29. Victor Frankenstein

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

31. Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus

32. Who is Mr. Krempe?

33. The first teacher Victor meets at the college

34. Who is Mr. Waldman?

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

36. Where does Victor go to college?

37. Ingolstadt

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

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 Krempe says they are a complete waste of time, Waldman says they have value but are outdated

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

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

42. The creature might be symbolic of?

43. Humans losing control of science/technology

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

45. The coldness/lack of feeling they have in common

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

47. Light

48. How are Walton and M. Shelley similar?

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

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

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

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

53. Romanticism

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

55. Enlightenment

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

57. Gothic

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

59. Feminism

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

61. Byronic (Lord Byron)