What geographical and scientific discovery does Robert wish to make?
discover unexplored regions (no human being has ever walked before)
search for a passage from Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, examine the earth’s magnetism
Why is he ambitious to explore North Pole?
His discovery will benefit mankind. He wants to seek scientific fame more than anything else
money can buy.
How is Robert similar to Victor?
They both share the ambition to have scientific discovery of the North Pole and the creation of
man. They will stop at nothing to seek scientific fame.
Why does Robert feel lonely?
He has no friend to share his joy with and offer him sympathy.
How do Victor and the monster suffer from loneliness?
Victor is alone as he once had a true friend, Elizabeth, but she was murdered by the monster. The
monster feels lonely as human rejects him and his creator abandons him and destroys his female
companion.
What does Victor want to know about the world?
He wants to know about the secret of heaven and earth and their causes.
How does Victor discover the secret of life? How does he create life?
He goes to the graveyards at night and digs up the corpses for his experiments.
He creates life from dead materials. He visits burial places and tears the bodies apart, showing no
respect for the dead.
How does he become ill and neglect his family?
He works his own self almost to death in order to bring dead matter to life ironically. He is ill with
slow fever every night. He also becomes frightened of his horrible work.
His father has not received a letter from him for a long time and is worried that he is unhappy.
Who does Victor think he is when he says, “a new race of human beings would bless me for
having created them”?
He thinks himself as God, expecting his creatures to thank and worship him.
How does Victor feel about his creation and what does he do?
His heart is filled with disgust and horror, he rushes out of the room, abandoning his ugly creation
even though he tries to make contact with him, seeing him as his master.
What is the consequence after Victor runs away?
It will cause deaths of many of his family members and friends murdered by the creature as
revenge.
How does Victor know that the monster is the murderer of his brother, William?
Victor sees the monster when he visits the spot where poor William has been murdered.
The police will not believe that Victor has created the monster, thinking he is mad. The police can
never catch the monster who is capable of climbing steep cliffs and mountains.
Why does the monster put the locket in Justine’s dress?
He might want to incriminate Justine to take revenge as William’s innocent death will in turn
make Justine to be hanged. This makes Victor guilty.
Do you agree the William and Justine are the first victims of Victor’s evil experiments?
Victor’s evil experiments of creating lives and his irresponsible abandonment of the monster cause
the monster’s vengeful murder of William and incrimination of Justine.
Is the legal system unjust?
Justine is accused of murder she did not commit and is put into prison. The witnesses who are
Justine’s so-called friends and are cowards. They are too frightened to say anything good about
her because they see that everyone hates her. Justine who is wholly innocent of William’s death is
then executed.
Why does Elizabeth believe in Justine?
Elizabeth believes that Justine is a kind and gentle girl who loved the dead child wholeheartedly.
The locket is not so valuable. If Justine had wanted it, Elizabeth would have given it to her gladly.
Why does Justine confess to the crime?
The priest forces Justine to confess to a lie. He calls her monster, threatening she must confess, or
else she would be forced out of God’s church and burn in hell forever.
Why is Justine accused of a crime she doesn’t commit?
She cannot explain why the locket was found in her dress so everyone begins to suspect she
murdered the boy to rob him. She cannot understand why the murderer might put it there.
Whom does Victor blame for his actions?
He blames the monster for the murder of William and incrimination of Justine.
He hates the monster so much that he wants to take him to the top of the mountain and throw him
down to his death. He thinks destroying the monster will excuse him from his horrible creation of
lives.
What makes the monster miserably alone?
Even his own creator abandons him and all men hate and reject him. He is forced to live in
deserted mountains and sleep in caves of ice.
How does the monster learn how to speak and read?
By listening to the cottagers carefully and observing them closely. He listens to Felix and Agatha
reading to the old man and Safie, then it steaks their books and put them back.
Who is like God to the monster and who does he compare himself to after reading Paradise Lost?
Victor creates the monster like God has created Adam. But unlike Adam, the monster does not
have a female companion. He also wonders if he is as ugly as the devil.
What makes the monster angry with Victor?
Reading Victor’s notes of creation, the monster hates Victor for making him a thing of horror from
pieces of dead bodies, but God has made men beautiful.
Why Victor and the monster are doppelgangers?
Victor’s creation of lives has isolated him from society; the ugly appearance of the monster has
isolated him. They are both passionate and are driven by ambition to create lives and learn how to
speak and read. They want justice and want to take revenge. They are both monstrous because of
Victor’s evil creation of lives and the monster’s ugly appearance.
Victor and Robert both have the ambition and desire for scientific fame and discovery.
Why does the monster teach William to become his friend and companion?
William is too young to develop a sense of prejudice against the horror of his deformed body.
Why does William judge the monster’s ugly appearance and call him “an ugly beast”?
He has been influenced by the prejudices of adults to judge the monster by his ugly appearance.
Why did the monster kill William?
William is the brother of his hated enemy Victor; he wants to take revenge. William keeps calling
him ‘ugly beast’ and ‘monster’. He is filled with despair and rage that he squeezes his neck to
silence him.
How does the monster feel and what kind of female companion he requests?
He feels alone and miserable. He demands Victor create a woman as deformed and ugly as him so
that she will not run away from him in terror.
Why does Victor refuse at first?
He thinks two monsters together may destroy the whole world with their wickedness.
However, he feels sorry for him and guilty about making the monster so ugly and unhappy. He has
to make the monster happy to save his family. The monster also promises to go away and not to
hurt anybody.
Unlike Victor, what does Robert do?
He abandons the journey of discovery and agrees to return home.
What are Victor’s last words to Robert?
He advises Robert to put away his ambitions as scientific discoveries can be dangerous.
Is Victor the true monster?
He wonders perhaps another man may succeed, showing that he has not fully learnt his lesson that
scientific discoveries may be dangerous. He is evil to create lives and abandons him irresponsibly.
In the end, how does the monster feel about his revenge?
He hates himself for the murders of the innocent who never did him any harm. Victor made his
heart sensitive to feelings pf love and sympathy. He also begs for Victor’s forgiveness.
How will he kill himself?
He will go to the most northern part of the earth and burn himself down ton ashes on his own
funeral fire.
