Ch.8-10 "Frankenstein (Day 6)

Reading Day:

Chapters 8-10

+Corresponding reading guide questions

index

Chapter 8 Reading guide questions

chapter 9 summary

chapter 10 reading guide questions

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Why didn't Frankenstein tell the judges about the actual murderer to save Justine? Was he right?

reading guide questions: Chapter 8

What role does Victor think the creature played in Justine’s situation? What does this imply about the creature’s abilities?

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Chapter 9 Summary

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Victor reflects on William and Justine’s death, feeling grief and guilt. He seeks solitude and becomes sickly again. Papa Frankenstein tells Victor he must pull himself together, that they are all grieving and it is Victor’s “duty owed to [himself], for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society” (112).Victor begins to feel that he must live or otherwise leave his surviving family “exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom [he] had let loose among them” (113). With this, Victor expresses his murderous and vengeful intent towards his creation, blaming both himself and the creation for the deaths of William and Justine. Elizabeth, seeing Victor’s disposition but not knowing the cause, entreats him to abandon his “dark passions” of “despair and revenge” (115).

This chapter includes an allusion to The Bible, what connections does the Creature make? How does that impact our opinion of the two characters?

reading guide questions: Chapter 10

If you were absent, please complete on a separate sheet of paper and staple to your Reading Guide when you return.

What appeals did the creature use to convince Victor to hear him out? Were they effective, why or why not?