Thursday, May 5, 2011

Frankenstein Chapter 3 and 4

1. Why is Victor’s mother’s death so important?

2. How does M. Krempe respond to hearing about Victor’s prior scholarly pursuits? Why? (this may require your own interpretation)

3.  How is M. Waldman different from Krempe?

4. Why is Victor’s meeting with Waldman a moment of great impact?

5. In what pursuit was Victor so absorbed that he did not contact his family for two years?

6. What becomes Victor’s obsession in Chapter 4? Describe his behaviour.

7. What “astonishing power” does Victor discover?

8. By the end of Ch.4, Victor describes himself as emaciated and a shell of a man. What has caused this ruin of his former self? 

These are content questions, and they exist only to test you in your reading and comprehension.