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Directions
1. Complete ONE Analysis Guide PER text to the best of your ability (​not​ to the best of
SparkNotes’, Shmoops’, or anyone else’s ability).
2. You will need to conduct outside research to complete certain items such as historical
era/cultural movement and socio-cultural and historical context. ​Cite your sources.
3. If you are unfamiliar with any terms on this guide, refer to the AP Lit. Terms document for
help.
4. I highly recommend typing your answers directly into this form and then printing the form
when finished. This will allow you to take up as much room as necessary without the limits of
handwriting.

The Basics​ (6 points)

Full Title of Work (properly punctuated):
- “Frankenstein”

Year of Publication:
- 1818 (Original Version)
- 1994 (Dover Thrift Edition)

Genre:
- Fiction, Sci-Fi, Drama, Supernatural

Historical Era / Cultural Movement:

- Romantic Disillusionment
- https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/frank.comment1.html

Author:
- Mary Shelley

Birth-Death Dates / Places:

- Birth: ​30 August 1797, at London (Somers Town)
- Death: ​1 February 1851, at London (Chester Square)
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

Setting(s)​ (2 points)
*Consider times and places as well as significant socio-cultural and historical context.

Primary:
- Time period: 1700s
- Places:
- Geneva, Switzerland (Victor’s Birthplace)
- Walton’s ship
Secondary:
- Places:
- Ingolstadt, Germany (Victor’s College)
- Montanvert
- Orkneys, Scotland (Place where Victor works on another creation)

Other:
- London (Margaret's residence)

Characters​ (5 points)
Protagonists:
- Victor Frankenstein
- Robert Walton

Antagonists:
- The Monster

Primary Foils [​to whom?​] (Rivalry / Preventions):

- Victor to Monster
- Victor tries to hunt down the monster and even prevent the monster’s mate from
being created.
- Victor to Walton
- Victor stops Walton from getting further on his voyage.

Primary Love Interests & Sidekicks:

- Elizabeth Lavenza
- Victor’s Cousin, adopted from Alphonse’s sister
- Later Married with Victor
- Henry Clerval (Victor’s Best friend)

Minor Characters:
- Margaret Saville (Walton’s sister)
- Alphonse Frankenstein (Victor’s Father)
- Caroline Frankenstein (Victor’s Mother)
- Justine Moritz (Woman living in the Frankenstein family)
- William Frankenstein (Victor’s youngest brother)
- Felix (Villager)
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- Agatha (Villager)
- Safie (Villager)
- De Lacey (Villager)
- Mr. Kirwin (the town’s judge at an island)

Central Conflicts​ (3 points)

*Consider both sides in each conflict.

Primary External:
- Victor and the monster
- The monster is furious with Victor’s abandonment of him. As it learns more about
beliefs, it compares itself and Victor as “adam” and “god” which cause it to doubt
Victor on his responsibility. In addition, even though the monster asked Victor to
create a mate for it and Victor began making it, he soon destroys the unfinished
monster’s mate. This even make the monster more furious.
- Monster and Human
- The monster wanted to become friend with human, but was hated for what it looked
like. Monster, as a result, hated human back

Primary Internal:
- Walton
- He struggles with his loneliness due to uneasy relationship with the crew while
pursuing his passion on discovering (​northern passage to the Pacific / North Pole)
new things on dangerous circumstance​.

Secondary:
- Victor
- Internal: He must sacrifice his social life / connection between people in order to
pursue his career. At last, he also must make a choice between making a female
creation with a possibility of larger population of their race, or to destroy the creation
and break the promise given to the original creation.

Key Plot Points​ (5 points)

Exposition:
- Victor was born in Frankenstein family
- Elizabeth was adopted
- Victor had a friend during his childhood

Rising Action:
- Victor grew up, interested in science, especially nature and alchemy. He decided to attend
college at his 17s at ​Ingolstadt. Victor plans on creating a living creature right at the
apartment he lives in and successfully created a creature but was frightened by its ugly
appearance and finally fled from his own apartment.
- The monster also fled from the apartment as well and soon learn more about the world such as
nature, languages, human religious beliefs. As he approaches humans, humans always become
frightened, and soon, he hates human. He met Victor again at Montanvert and told his story.
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Climax:
- The monster asks Victor to create a female mate for him. Victor agreed, but then later
destroyed it, making the monster furious and seeking for future vengeance at his marriage.
- Before the wedding day between Victor and Elizabeth, the monster kills Elizabeth. Knowing
the news, Alphonse passes away several days later.
- Victor is determined to revenge the monster back, since the monster is the cause to William,
Justine, Elizabeth and his father’s death.

Falling Action:
- Victor leaves Geneva and dedicatedly tracks the monster.
- Victor finds a lot hints that the monster intentionally leave for him.
Resolution:
- Walton sends letters to his sister about his voyage.
- Walton found Victor frozen, near death after chasing the monster, at the North Pole. Walton
saves Victor and Victor decided to tell his story to Walton. Several days before the crews
head back to England, Victor dies. The monster visits the corpse of its creator on the ship
afterward and later went off, ready to end his own life.

Narrative Style​ (3 points)

*Consider point of view, distinctive literary style / literary devices used, and narrator’s name /
character traits.

- Mary Shelley writes in multiple point of views from characters, mainly as Walton’s POV
from his mails to his sister and Victor’s POV when he was telling his own story, making the
whole story made up of quotes from the characters, not really the narrator. This creates a
unique style of storytelling due to the fact that stories are told within another story.
- Mary Shelley uses numerous academic word choices that accurately express the actions made
by characters in the story throughout her novel. This shows her excellency in English, despite
her young age.

Themes​ (2 points)
​ eminder: themes are usually 3-5-word phrases, not full sentences or 1-word answers.
*R

Primary:
- Monstrous perspective in life
- How an artificial creature views the world.

Secondary:
- Breaking nature’s taboo
- To revive or create living things.
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Symbols, Metaphors, and Allegories​ (3 points)

- In my opinion, the monster might be representing a newly-born and innocent child, who
sometimes is created from accident and is unwanted (Victor regret creating the monster).
When young, the child would try to absorb as much environment as it can and will grow up
by having the society / community around itself shaping it (the monster learns lots of
knowledge at a village). Religious beliefs are highly influenced through people around it.
When grown up into a teenager, it would make a mistake that it regrets and that affect its life
a lot (the monster killed many people, resulting in Victor’s death as he tries to chase it down).

Mythological, Biblical, Literary, Historical, Scientific, and Cultural Allusions: Other Significant
Literary Devices / Notable Aspects​ (3 points)
- The story mentioned about the creation of human a bit through Adam and God, relating to
Christianity.
- The idea of creating a creature from human body parts (and animal parts) makes an impact
upon beliefs of reincarnation in many religions and reviving human from death in medical and
scientific aspects.
- The reason behind Walton’s voyage could possibly be the effect of the “age of discovery” that
lasts from 15th century until the end of 18th century.

Significant Quotes​ (10 points)

*Include ​at least 5​ that span the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Focus your choice of quotes
on ​characterization​. This will help you when writing your first essay!

- Who? To Whom? Page # or Line

- Said What? (​exact​ words and punctuation in “ ”) #
- Why?

- Walton to Margaret (through mail) Letter 1

- “I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle (pg.1)
and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this
voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.”
- To emphasize his passion on this voyage that it will results in benefits.

- Victor to Walton Letter 4

- “You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great (pg.13)
and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined at one time that the
memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to
alter my determination. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once
did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be
a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.”
- To compare himself to Walton that they are both passionate on what
they do.

- Victor to Walton (through storytelling) Chapter 5

(pg.35)
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- “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate

the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to
form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as
beautiful… but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast
with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the
dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion
and straight black lips.”
- He is disappointed on the failure of the creation’s appearance that he
wisely selected, but turned out to be ugly, overall.

- Monster / Creation to Victor (through storytelling) Chapter 11

- “It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my (pg.70)
being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A
strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and
smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned
to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.”
- The monster is trying to describe himself that after created he still is an
innocent creature, and could mean no harm to Victor.

- Monster to Walton Chapter 24

- “I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning (pg.166)
miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and
exult in the agony of the torturing flames.”
- The monster knew that what he has done was wrong and regretted it.
Since Walton knows Victor side of the story, the monster said this to
tell him that he’ll be getting what he deserves; dying.