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Frankenstein worksheet (based on the movie by Mark Kruger)

Characters

Victor Frankenstein
Victor’s Mother (Caroline)
Victor’s Father (Alphonse)
William (Victor’s youngest brother)
Elizabeth (orphan that the Frankenstein’s take in / Victor’s love interest)
Justine (another young orphan taken in by Elizabeth)
Henry Clerval (Victor’s childhood friend)
Captain Walton (Captain of ship / Victor tells him the tale of his life)
Professor Waldeman (Victor’s mentor at university)
The Monster

Questions: Day 1 – 6 points

1. What is the conflict in the story?

2. What circumstances influence Victor to create the Monster?

3. How does Victor change from childhood to adulthood?

4. What two dying wishes does Victor’s mother Caroline have for him?

5. How is Victor different from his friend Henry Clerval?

6. What role does Professor Waldeman play in Victor’s development?

 Frankenstein – Day 2 Questions – 10 points

1. What happens to the dog that Victor sees killed in the streets and how does this
experience influence him?

2. How does Professor Waldeman feel about Victor’s experiments?

3. True or False. Victor quits talking to his family for several months while creating the
Monster.

4. How does Victor feel about the Monster he creates? What does Victor do?

5. How does the Monster differ from our popular culture image of the Monster?
BONUS: 2 pts / Find a classic/older picture of the monster and staple it to this packet.

6. Who comes to see Victor?

7. How does the Monster respond when he sees the cross?

8. How does the Monster develop in nature?

9. How does society respond to the Monster?

10. What does the Monster learn from watching the family and for what does he long as a
result?
 Frankenstein – Day 3 Questions – 10 points

1. What is Frankenstein doing while the Monster develops?

2. After he reads Victor’s journal, how does the Monster feel about Victor?

3. Why doesn’t the young girl react in horror to the presence of the Monster?

4. What is the Monster’s experience with the girl and blind man similar to?

5. Why do the girl’s parents reject the Monster?

6. How does the Monster react to his reflection after he is driven out of the house?

7. Who does the Monster kill?

8. Why is it ironic that Victor creates a monster that kills?

9. What does Victor do after William’s death? When Justine is accused?

10. After Justine’s hanging, how does the monster feel?

 Frankenstein – Day 4 Questions – 11 points

1. What does the Monster do with Justine’s body?

2. True or False. The Monster confronts Victor and says, “The world rejected me; I hoped
my father would not.”

3. How does William die?

4. What does the Monster leave with Justine and why?

5. What does the Monster want Frankenstein to do and why?

6. The Monster tells Frankenstein, “If I cannot inspire love, I will inspire ______________.”

7. When Captain Walton asks Victor why he didn’t destroy the Monster when they met,
what reason does Victor give him?

8. How does Victor act when he is faced with the task of making another monster? Who
notices this?

9. Who shows up in the lab while Victor is working?

10. Who does Victor share his secret with and what is his response?

11. What does Victor do to the creation and what does the Monster vow to do as a result?
 Frankenstein – Day 5 Questions – 10 points

1. Who was the Monster’s next victim? (after Justine)

2. Who is accused of this crime initially?

3. What does Elizabeth say when Victor tries to tell her his secret?

4. What happens on Victor and Elizabeth’s wedding night?

5. When Victor talks to his father after Elizabeth’s death, his father says ….
Death pursues you like the ______________________________________.
There’s no need for you here, there’s no one left to ___________________.
I love you, but I don’t ___________________________________ who you are.

6. Why is it ironic that Victor’s father tells him to leave?

7. What happens in Ingolstadt?

8. Victor tells the authorities that the Monster thrives on the ______________.

9. What does the note to Victor say?

10. What does Victor do as a result of the Monster’s latest behavior?

 Frankenstein Conclusion – 13 points

1. How does Frankenstein end up in the North Pole?

2. What does Frankenstein ask Captain Walton to do?

3. As Frankenstein nears the end of his life, he becomes delirious. Who does he see?

4. With his last words, what does Frankenstein tell Walton to do?

5. Who gets on the boat during the celebration?

6. The Monster sees Frankenstein in the cabin, not realizing he is dead. He says

● Monster: Do you think I would abandon you like you _________________________?

● The Monster asks Walton: Who did this to him? /Walton says: __________________.
● Monster: I dreamed once. __________________________________.

7. What does the Monster do with Frankenstein’s body?

Discussion Questions:

8. As the Monster walks off with Frankenstein’s body, what possibility is suggested?

9. Why doesn’t Walton kill the Monster?

10. Is the Monster a villain or victim? Why?

11. How does Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein show the conflict between science (technology)
and nature?

12. What moral issues are raised in the story? Are there any similar issues in today’s world?
(2 points)