5V Frankenstein Week 3 Lesson 1+2 Chapters 3-12

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Frankenstein

week 3 lesson 1 + 2

In class

• Discuss chapters 3 - 5
• Analyse chapters of chosen theme
• Read chapters 6 - 15

CHAPTER 3

• What happens to Victor’s mother? Do you see any similarities with Mary Shelley’s life? 
  
• Why, do you think, is it important that Elizabeth is not Victor’s actual sister? 
  
• What does Victor think of his two university professors: M. Krempe and professor Waldman? 
• What important decision does Victor make after meeting with his professors? 

CHAPTER 4

• Apart from natural philosophy (physics) and chemistry, what other subject does Victor Frankenstein start to study? 
• What is Victor doing after he has finished his studies at Ingolstadt University?
• Victor becomes obsessed with reviving the dead. During this obsession, 

what is he like? 

Which one looks most like the monster according to the actual book? 

Try to find the actual part of the book where it is described!

And the winner is…

“His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as 

beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered 

the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous 

black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these 

luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, 

that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in 

which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.”

CHAPTER 5

• Victor creates his monster. What is his reaction to his success?
  
• While walking through the University town, who does Victor run into? 
  
• What news does this person bring him? 
  
• The two return to Victor’s apartment. What stands out upon arrival? 
  
• What does Victor receive at the end of the chapter?
  

Work on

• your analysis of the chapters of your chosen theme
• read chapters 8 - 5

CHAPTER 6

• Who is Justine Moritz?
  
• Victor introduces Henry to his professors. What happens when visiting Waldman and Krempe? 
  
• Henry also starts studying at the Ingolstadt University, and Victor joins him in his studies. What do the two men study and why does Victor participate? 

CHAPTER 7

• Victor receives a letter from his father. What has happened to his brother William? 
  
• When returning to Geneva, Victor has to spend the night outside because the city gates are closed. What happens? 
  
• Who is being blamed? 
  
• Why doesn’t Victor speak up? 
  

CHAPTER 8

• What is the verdict?
• How does Victor feel about this?

CHAPTER 9

• What is the verdict?
• How does Victor feel about this?

Epistolary novels

• These are novels that consist of documents (letters, newspaper articles, diary entries, etc.) 
• From the Greek “ἐπιστολή” (epistolē,) meaning ‘letter.’
• Used to make a story more realistic and to eliminate the use of an omniscient narrator.
• In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses letters written by Robert Walton, which makes it an epistolary novel. 
• What is the difference between the effect of using letters and using a omniscient narrator? 

CHAPTER 10

• How might Justine’s trial have differed in today’s court system?
• How does Victor’s guilt affect his health? 
• Who suggests to go on an excursion to the valley of Chamounix? And why?
• How does Victor respond?

CHAPTER 10

• What happened to Victor when he went to the summit of Montanvert? How did he react?
• How did the creature feel when he first felt life?
• What does the creature learn to do and how does he learn to do it?

Explain this quotation

“Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

(chapter 10)

CHAPTER 11

• How did the creature feel when he first felt life?
  
• What does the creature learn to do and how does he learn to do it?
  
• Where does the creature go to find warmth? 
  
• What does the creature see through the crack in the wall? 
  

CHAPTER 12

• What does the creature decide to stop doing and why?
• What does the monster notice about this family?
• What does he do for the family? 
• What are the family members called? 
• What scares the creature?  

Next week

• Read chapters 13 - 21
• Pick a theme (if you haven't done so already)
• Work on the chapters in the workbook (on classroom)
• Next lesson: discuss chapters, theme, symbolism en character