Question:

Answer: By forcing physical terror upon Frankenstein.

Question: Which sentence from the novel best reflects the story’s gothic nature?

Answer: My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had became emaciated with confinement.

Question: How does Shelley create her Gothic atmosphere?

Answer: Through her focus on death and decay.

Question: How does Shelley use Frankenstein to address the societal concerns of the scientific revolution?

Answer:

Question: Which literary term describes a recurring idea or image?

Answer: Motif.

Question: How does shelley most clearly create suspense in the story?

Answer: She foreshadows unpleasant events.

Question: Which story element most closely belongs to romantic literature?

Answer: Henry clerval’s childhood stories of heroes and their adventures.

Question: How are frankenstein and prometheus alike?

Answer: Both Frankenstein and Prometheus introduced forbidden knowledge to their creations

Question: “I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain (32).”

What is most clearly a motif in this passage?

Answer: Death and decay.

Question: Which story element most closely belongs to Gothic literature?

Answer: Frankenstein obsession with his scientific pursistis.