Frankenstein (AP Literature review) Flashcards
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5686365572 | Alphonse Frankenstein | Victor's father | 0 | |
5686365573 | Caroline Frankenstein | Victor's mother | 1 | |
5686365574 | Elizabeth | adopted child of the Frankensteins | 2 | |
5686365575 | Switzerland | Victor's country | 3 | |
5686365576 | Robert Walton | the novel's first narrator | 4 | |
5686365577 | Byronic Hero | a self tormented outcast who is cynical and contemptuous of societal norms and is suffering from some unnamed or mysterious sin or dark past. Yet still handsome and attractive. The "bad boy." | 5 | |
5686365578 | Prometheus | figure in Greek mythology who gives fire to mankind | 6 | |
5686365579 | Ingolstadt | location of Victor's university | 7 | |
5686365580 | allusion | a reference to another work | 8 | |
5686365581 | epistolary | having to do with letters | 9 | |
5686365582 | Henry Clerval | Victor's best friend | 10 | |
5686365583 | Mt. Blanc | highest peak in western Europe - where Victor first speaks with the monster | 11 | |
5686365584 | Geneva | city in which Victor is raised | 12 | |
5686365585 | Waldman | Victor's kind professor who delivers the lecture that sparks (pun intended) Victor's monomania | 13 | |
5686365586 | Krempe | Victor's disdainful professor who tells Victor his study of Cornelius Agrippa and other alchemists has been a waste of time | 14 | |
5686365587 | Felix de Lacey | young man; beloved of Safie | 15 | |
5686365588 | Agatha de Lacey | sister of Felix | 16 | |
5686365589 | Safie | young Turkish woman with whom Felix de Lacey is in love | 17 | |
5686365590 | Mr. Kirnin | Irish magistrate who tries Victor for murder of Henry Clerval | 18 |