Question: How is the story of Victor’s mother’s death ironic?

Answer: As the mother was trying to save Elizabeth from scarlet fever, she got ill herself and died.

Question: What does Victor contemplate in the first hours of his departure ? How do these thoughts indicate his future?

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Question: Why does Victor not want to study the contemporary scientists suggested by M. Krempe?

Answer: Victor is interested in goals of older scientists such as the alchemists. Victor desires to pursue their “grand” aspirations instead of the normal goals of contemporary scientists.

Question: What ultimately changes Victor’s mind about new chemists?

Answer: Frankenstein eventually changes his mind when he sees that many if these new chemists’ findings made sense. Waldman (professor and friend) helped learning this new material come naturally to Frankenstein.

Question: Compare the physiognomy of Krempe and Waldman.

Answer: Krempe’s features are described as “a little squat man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance” (pg. 26) and Waldman is described as fifty years old, with few grey hairs, and had the sweetest voice Victor had ever heard.

Question: What is the literary term for M. Waldman and the effect that his lecture and guidance have on Victor?

Answer: Catalyst -> character/event changes a character, causes a domino effect; It furthers Victor to his interests in natural philsoshopy and with M. Waldman’s incite and encouragment, it is what drives Victor to his “future destiny”, which is Victor’s motivation to his creation.

Question: Why does Victor favor science above all other disciplines?

Answer: Victor favors science above all other disciplines because it’s based on logic. There is a set by step procedure. Understanding people is much more difficult

Question: How is Victor’s practice of science different from the modern practice of science?

Answer: Victor’s practice of science differs from the modern practice of science in Frankenstein in that he tried to reanimate dead tissue.

Question: Why does Victor hesitate to make a creature like man? Why does he go through with it?

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Question: What traditional tragic flaw is Victor demonstrating?

Answer: Victor’s traditional tragic flaw is allowing his passion for creating life take over his own in the process all the while neglecting the world, his morals, friends and family for it EGO