Frankenstein Group SQs
Drake – Monsters

This assignment is to be completed in the current groups and is worth 40 points.  20 of those points will be awarded by the instructor for completeness and accuracy of the answers, and 20 will be awarded to each group member by the other group members for contribution and effort.

Use quotations and cite page numbers to support your answers.

When the creature meets Victor on the glacier, he outlines what he believes to be his creator's responsibilities to him.  What are these responsibilities? Make sure to provide direct quotations from the novel to support your answer.  Explain in what ways you agree and disagree with his reasoning concerning these responsibilities.

The creature learns a great deal from his observations of the de Laceys.  Why would Shelley want to include their story here?  It is not simply an example of family life for the creature.  What do we learn from their history and present condition within the novel?  Refer to specific elements of their experience in relationship to other elements of the novel and general themes.

The creature has the opportunity to read a great deal while at the de Lacey's.  What does he read? Then speculate, with support from the novel, about what significance each work has to the novel's themes.

What are the events that bring the creature to define himself as a monster?  What are the characteristics the he learns to associate with monstrosity?  What is the creature's implied argument here concerning the nature of monstrosity?  Do you think Mary Shelley agrees with this argument? In what ways do you agree or disagree with it?

What, according to the creature, would return him to a life of goodness? Is his argument based on Enlightenment or Romantic principles, or both?  Refer to the specific principles in relationship to specific quotes spoken by the creature.