CLOZE: IT’S ALIVE!!
1. Mary Shelley’s mother was named ______.
2. What was she famous for?
3. Mary Shelley’s father was named ______.
4. What was he famous for?
5. How did Mary’s mother die?
6. What was Mary’s childhood like intellectually, and why?
7. What was Mary’s childhood like emotionally, and why?
8. What was Percy Bysshe Shelley famous for, and what was his marital status when he met Mary?
9. Mary was ______years old when she met, became pregnant by, and ran off with Percy Shelley.
10. Where did Mary and Percy like to meet secretly?
11. Where did they go after Percy got Mary pregnant?
12. Why did Percy almost leave the pregnant Mary soon afterward?
13. What unusual request did Percy make of the very pregnant Mary?
14. What happened to Percy’s wife?
15. What happened to Mary’s baby girl?
16. What happened with Mary’s second pregnancy?
17. Where did Mary, now 19, go with Percy and Byron, and what did they do there?
Ending Freewrite (100 words) – Discuss (no names) a “real life” situation like this.
Reading Guide: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
1. Frankenstein is an ______novel – i.e., we read it as a series of ______.
2. Robert Walton is writing to his ______, who lives in ______.
3. Where is Walton trying to go, how is he trying to get there, and why isn’t he moving?
4. Walton sees a man chasing a ______, and rescues the man, whose name turns out to be ______.
5. Victor says he grew up in ______with his friend named ______and his adopted sister named ______.
6. Victor’s father was loving but ______.
7. Remember: Whom did Mary Shelley know that fit that description? ______
8. Victor went to the University of ______to study ______, and spent months building a man out of ______stolen from ______.
9. Victor finished his work in what month, and in what weather?
10. Describe in detail the equipment and process with which the creature was brought to life.
FREEWRITE 50 WORDS (separate paper): By now you’ve figured out that #10 was a trick question. Why do you think we are told NOTHING about the equipment and process for making a live man out of dead parts? Consider Victor’s reasons for not telling us – and consider Mary Shelley’s reasons.
11. Victor says, “How can I describe my ______at this ______, or how ______the ______whom with such infinite ______and ______I had endeavored to form?
12. Victor says of his creature, “His limbs were in ______, and I had selected his features as ______. ______! Great ______!”
13. What specifically are we told about the creature at the moment it comes to life:
· Skin color:
· Teeth:
· Eyes:
· Complexion:
· Lips:
14. NOW: Circle any of the above which describe what human babies often look like at the moment they are born.
15. Right after bringing the creature to life, Victor ran to ______and went to ______.
16. Freewrite 10 words: Anything odd about that to you?
17. Victor dreamed that he saw who doing what?
18. In his dream he did what to this person?
19. After he does that, what happens to this person in his dream?
20. Then, whom does this person turn into, and what does he see crawling around on this person?
21. Freewrite 10 words: In how many ways is that dream, er, icky?
22. What was standing there when Victor woke up, and what did its face and hands do?
23. What did Victor do next?
24. Victor got a letter telling that who has been murdered?
25. Before Victor can arrive home, who is accused, tried, and executed for the murder?
26. Victor knows who the murderer is. Why do you think he does not speak up?
27. Rather than deal with this, where does Victor go next?
28. In this place, Victor faces the creature, who is quite different from the Hollywood monster. Describe how the novel’s version of Frankenstein’s creature:
· Moves:
· Speaks:
29. Judging from the tone of voice each uses, which being is in control of the situation?
30. List four things Victor calls the creature that seek to deny the creature’s humanity:
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31. What does Victor keep saying he will do to the creature?
32. The Creature points out that this will be difficult why?
33. The Creature says that he “will not be ______to set” himself “in ______” to Victor; why? ______
34. The Creature says that he has become “a fiend” because:
35. The creature proposes that, if Victor will ______, then he will ______
36. The Creature says he was frustrated because he could not make beautiful ______.
37. The Creature says he tried to interact with people, but that what happened?
38. The Creature says he learned about human love by watching a family named ______.
39. Where did the Creature live during this time?
40. The Creature says he learned to speak and think by doing what?
41. What sorts of things did the Creature do to help this family?
42. What did the Creature see that horrified him, and where did he see it?
43. Why was the Creature finally able to speak casually with an old man? Why did that end?
44. Describing his difference from people, the Creature says: “I was more ______than they, and could subsist upon ______; I bore the extremities of ______and ______with less injury to my frame; my ______far exceeded theirs.”
45. FREEWRITE 20 words: Are these bad things – or are they great things? What, in other words, does The Creature feel inferior about? What is Mary Shelley’s point?
46. The Creature says,“When I looked around, I saw and heard of ______like ______.... no ______had blessed me with ______and ______…. I had never yet seen a ______me.”
47. The Creature says he turned to violence why?
48. The Creature demands that Victor create a ______, saying, “one as ______and ______as myself would not ______to me. My ______must be of the same ______, and have the same ______.”
49. The Creature says that he and this thing will live in ______and eat ______.
50. Victor at first agrees, but changes his mind because he is afraid that what will happen?
51. After he changes his mind, what does Victor do to the thing?
52. The Creature promises Victor, “I will be with you on your ______.”
53. That night, Victor does what on a boat in a lake?
54. Victor is arrested for whose murder?
55. Who actually has done the murder?
56. Victor returns home to marry ______.
57. Remember: how are they already acquainted?
58. Who kills Elizabeth?
59. Vowing revenge, Victor tracks the Creature north, and hears that he is “armed with” what?
60. Frankenstein dies on Walton’s ship; the Creature enters. Walton describes the Creature’s appearance at the end: “______in stature, yet uncouth and ______in its proportions…his face was concealed by long locks of ______hair; but one ______hand was extended, in colour and apparent texture like that of a ______.... Never did I behold a vision so ______.”
61. What emotions does the Creature express at the end?
62. How does the Creature say that he will die?