English Work

Teacher: Pamela Dickens

Name: Jhasllan Martins

Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

Retold by Margaret Tarner

Points for understanding

2.

1.

Where was Victor Frankenstein born? In what year?

He was born in Geneva, in Switzerland. He was born in 1870.

2.

How old was Victor Frankenstein when his younger brother, William, was born?
Twelve years old.

3.

Who was Elizabeth?

She was the daughter of Victor`s father`s best friend.

4.

Why did Frankenstein want to learn more about human life?

He wanted to help people. He wanted to make their lives better.

5.

What did Frankenstein`s mother hope that Frankenstein and Elizabeth would do one day?
She hoped they would marry.

6.

Why is Frankenstein glad that his mother is dead?

Because his work has brought death and sadness to the world.

7.

Who was Henry Clerval?

He was Victor`s friend.

8.

Where did Frankenstein go to study?

To Heidelburg.

1.What did Frankenstein want to learn most of all?

The secret of life.
2. Why were people frightened of Frankenstein?
Because he paid men to steal bodies, and he cut up the bodies.
3. One day, there was a storm. What suddenly gave Frankenstein an idea?
The lightning which flashed in the sky.
4. What kind of man did Frankenstein want to make?
The biggest, the strongest man who had ever lived.
5. Frankenstein joined wires to the head, feet and hands. Where did the wires go to?
To the roof of his house.
6. What happened when the lightning hit the roof?
Sparks of light came down the wires to the body. And the body started breathing.
7. Frankenstein had not made a man. What had he made?
A Monster.

3.

1. What had happened to Frankenstein`s house and laboratory?

A fire had started, and the house was burnt to the ground.
2. What was Henry Clerval going to study at Heidelburg?
Languages.

3. What did Frankenstein decide to do?

He decided to study languages with Henry Clerval.
4. What terrible news did Frankenstein receive from Geneva?
He received new that this brother, William, was dead.
5. Frankenstein stayed the night in a small village about half a kilometer from Geneva. What happened in this village?
William had been murdered.
6. Who had killed Frankenstein` brother?
The Monster.
7. `I could not tell anyone my terrible secret. What was Frankenstein`s terrible secret?
That he had made a Monster ,and it had killed his brother.
4. `She is guilty. We know she killed William.
a) Why did people think the young woman had murdered William?
Because William was wearing a valuable picture round his neck on the day he was killed. The picture was found in the young
girl`s hand.
b) Where was she now?
She was in prison.
c) What was going to happen to her at ten o`clock?
She was going to be hanged.
2. Why did Frankenstein think that he was a murderer?
He thought that William and the young girl had died because he had made the Monster.
3. Where did Frankenstein go?
He went to the mountains.
4. What did the Monster ask Frankenstein to do?
To listen to his story.
5. 1) How did the Monster find out that he was so ugly?
He saw his face in a pool of water.
2) How had the Monster learned Frankenstein`s name?
He had taken Frankenstein`s cloak from the laboratory. There was a book in the pocket. It had Frankenstein`s name in it.
3) What promise had the Monster made to himself?
That everyone with the name Frankenstein would die.
4) Why was the old man not afraid of the Monster?
Because he was blind. He could not see how ugly the Monster was.
5) What happened when the young people saw the Monster?
The girl screamed and fell to the ground. When the Monster tried to help her, her brother shot at him.
6. One day, the Monster met a child.
a) Why did he go to the child?
He wanted to make the child his friend.

b) Why did he kill the child?

Because the child screamed and said that he would tell his father about the Monster. He said that his father`s name was
Frankenstein.
c) Why did he put the picture in the young woman`s hands?
So that people would think she had killed the child. Then she would die too.
6.

1) What did the Monster ask Frankenstein to create?

A woman who would love him. She must be as ugly and terrible as he was.
2)Why had the Monster brought unhappiness to the world?
Because he was unhappy.
3)Where must the Monster live if Frankenstein agreed to his request?
Far from the towns and people.
4) What did Frankenstein`s father want him to do?
He wanted Victor to stay in Geneva with his friends. He wanted Victor to marry Elizabeth.
5)Frankenstein asked Elizabeth to wait for him. What was her reply?
I shall wait for you for ever, Victor.
6) Why did Frankenstein decide to go to Strasbourg?
Because his friend, Henry Clerval, was there.
7)What did Frankenstein plan to do when he got to Strasbourg?
He planned to build a laboratory and make the female Monster.
7.

1)What did Frankenstein start doing in Strasbourg?

He started making the female Monster.
2) One night, Frankenstein forgot to lock the door of his laboratory. What happened?
Henry came in and saw the female Monster.
3) What did Henry Clerval think might happen if the Monsters had children?
He thought that one day the terrible creatures might rule the world.
4)What did Henry begin to do?
He began to pull the wires from the body. And he began to pull the body apart.
5)How did Henry Clerval die?
The Monster killed him.
6) What happened to Frankenstein?
The Monster set fire to the laboratory. Then he carried Frankenstein away.

8.
1)What did Frankenstein say when he was ill?
He said he was a murderer. He said that he was the murderer of William and of Henry Clerval.
2)Frankenstein`s father said that Frankenstein did not kill William or Henry Clerval. Why was it not possible?
Because he was many miles away from the house where Henry Clerval`s body found. And he was in Heidelburg when
William was killed in Switzerland.
3) Why did Frankenstein always carry a gun with him?

Because he was afraid of the Monster. If he saw the Monster, he would shoot him.
4)Where did Frankenstein and Elizabeth stay on wedding night?
At a small inn beside the lake.
5)Why did Frankenstein leave Elizabeth alone in the room?
Because the Monster had said he would return on Victor`s wedding-night. He was sure that the Monster was near. He wanted to
find him and kill him.
6)What was the Monster`s revenge?
He killed Elizabeth, because Victor had killed his bride.
9.1)`Now the journey is ended, said Frankenstein.

a)

What is the place where the journey ends like?

It is a place of ice and snow. It is very cold.

b)

Why does Frankenstein think he will be able to kill the Monster?

Because he has his gun.

2. ` You are guilty, Frankenstein`, the Monster cried.

a)Why does the Monster think that Frankenstein is guilty?
Because Frankenstein made him. He made him ugly. Frankenstein ran away from him when the Monster wanted to be his
friend. And he destroyed the friend he made for the Monster.
c)

What is Frankenstein`s reply to these words of the Monster?

`What you say is true. I was the murderer of those I loved.

3. How is the Monster going to end his life?

He is going to make a fire and throw himself on the flames.
4. What does Frankenstein decide to do?
He decides to stay where he is, and to die there.