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33 Cards in this Set
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Victor Frankenstein
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-Main Character
-Creates the Monster -Goes out to destroy the Monster -Studies in Ingostad -Family is in Geneva -Dies as he is telling his story to Robert Walton |
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Frankenstein's Monster
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-Very ugly
-Learns French while hiding in the DeLacey's hovel -Reads Paradise, Lost The Sorrows of Werter, Plutarch’s Lives |
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Robert Walton
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-Man traveling to the north pole
-Writes letters to his sister, Margaret Saville -Nurses Victor back to health when he finds him in the northern ice -Records Victor's account in the letters |
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Alphonse Frankenstein
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-Victor's Dad
-Reminds Victor to remember the importance of the family |
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Elizabeth Lavenza
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-An orphan whom Victor's mother rescues
-Gives Victor's mother scarlet fever -Killed by the monster on their wedding night |
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Henry Clerval
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-Victor's childhood friend
-Nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstad -Killed by monster and Victor is blamed -Foil to Victor's sadness |
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William Frankenstein
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-Youngest of the Frankenstein family
-Killed by the monster but Justine is blamed |
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Justine Moritz
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-Adopted by the Frankenstein family
-Executed for the death of William |
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Caroline Beaufort
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-Victor's Mother
-Dies of scarlet fever from Elizabeth -Dying wish is for Victor and Elizabeth to get married |
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Peasants
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-DeLacey, Agatha, Felix, and Safie
-Beat the monster down when he is looking for friendship |
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M. Waldman
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-Sparks Victor's intrest in the creation of life
-One of Victor's professors |
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Romanticism
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an emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, heightened interest in nature, growth in the distrust of reason and the preceding Enlightenment, a departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventional systems.
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Romanticism in Frankenstein
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-When Victor goes to the mountain and is captivated by the scenery
-How the monster is misunderstood just like romantics were |
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Gothic Literature
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characterized by various themes such as horror, confinement, justice, and injustice
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Gothicism in Frankenstein
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-horrors of the monster's creation
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Doppelganger
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one who take the appearance of an "alternate identity" of the main character. Literary doppelgangers are usually represented physically through cases like twins or a darker or evil side contrasting the other. They can also be represented by ghost like figures or perform through the psyche of a living being.
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Doppelganger in Frankenstein
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-monster represents an openmindedness that Victor doesnt
-monster is always near and shadowing Victor |
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Connection to Prometheus
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-God punishes him for creating life
-Meddled in affairs they shouldnt have |
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The Pardoner
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reprieves from penance in exchange for charitable donations to the Church. Many pardoners, including this one, collected profits for themselves. In fact, Chaucer’s Pardoner excels in fraud, carrying a bag full of fake relics
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The Friar
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Always ready to befriend young women or rich men who might need his services, the friar actively administers the sacraments in his town, especially those of marriage and confession
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The Summoner
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brings persons accused of violating Church law to ecclesiastical court
. He spouts the few words of Latin he knows in an attempt to sound educated. |
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The Parson
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The pastor of a sizable town, he preaches the Gospel and makes sure to practice what he preaches
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The Clerk
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poor student of philosophy
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The Man of Law
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knows every statute of England’s law by heart
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
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Knight rapes girl and Queen asks him to find what all women want. Women want sovereignty and he marrries the ugly lady who gave him the answer. She becomes beautiful because he allows her to choose.
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The Pardoner's Tale
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Three young men are very drunk and want to find death an old man points them to a oak tree where there is gold underneath. The one who goes to get wine poisons two of the cups and gets killed by the other two when he returns. They drink the poisoned wine. Morals are not to be drunk and a glutton
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The nun's priest tale
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Moral dont succumb to flattery
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Mock heroic
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works to insert the heroic work by either putting a fool in the role of the hero or by exaggerating the heroic qualities to such a point that they become absurd.
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Exemplum
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a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point.
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heroic couplet
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traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines
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Heroic Couplet
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traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines
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Underline
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•A novel
•A ship •A play •A film •A painting •A sculpture or statue •A drawing •A CD •A TV Series •A cartoon series •An encyclopedia •A magazine •A newspaper •A pamphlet |
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Quotations
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•Poem
•Short story •A skit •A commercial •An individual episode in a TV series (like "The Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld) •A cartoon episode, like "Trouble With Dogs" •A chapter •An article •A newspaper story |
