Volume 2

Question 1

monstrare

Answer 1

something that serves to demonstrate

Question 2

monere

Answer 2

to warn

Question 3

epithets Victor uses in regard to his creation

Answer 3

‘devil’, ‘daemon’, ‘fiend’- ‘nicknames’ as such instead of a real name. Victor places his creation in the role of Satan when he ‘ought to be thy Adam’.

Question 4

Lavater’s theory (18th century)

Answer 4

Physiognomy: one’s character is manifest in one’s appearance. this is to say that a trained physiognomist can identify one’s moral nature through their physical characteristics. Lavater was himself a Swiss theologian.

Question 5

The monster’s growing knowledge seems dangerous because…

Answer 5

… it makes him aware of his difference.

Question 6

The three books the monster discovers in the woods

Answer 6

• a volume of Plutarch’s Lives - learns ‘high thoughts’
• Goethe’s Sorrows of Werter - learns ‘despondency and gloom’
• Milton’s Paradise Lost