| Click on the following links to find the answers to these
questions: |
| 1. Why would Mary Shelley think of bringing the dead to life? |
| 2. What attraction did cadavers hold for the 19th Century generation?
Were they so far wrong? Explain. |
| 3. Why did Shelley's monster kill as opposed to the movie monster?
What did 19th Century peoples hope to accomplish with their studies of
eugenics? |
| 4. Why was the monster never too much out of control, do you
think? |
| 5. Why are some people still today afraid of transplants, eugenics,
genome projects, etc? |
| 6. What harm can come from science or corporations keeping their
scientific research from the public just as Victor Frankenstein did? |
| 7. Why did cloning frighten some people? |
| 8. Why did Mary Shelley think of her creature as a "modern Prometheus"?
Who was the original Prometheus? |
| 9. Did you ever feel sorry for Frankenstein, the creature?
Why or why not? |
| 10. How did Victor Frankenstein's silence lead to further violence? |
| 11. Why and how was the monster finally destroyed? |
| See your teacher for a Study Guide for the entire novel. |
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