Exercises on the whole story Exercises on the whole
story
B. Which of the following characteristics do you think each character
in the story has? Tick () the appropriate boxes in the grid below.
CHARACTERS
Safie
in a happy house.
CHARACTERISTICS
x
friendly
clever
gigantic
sad
gentle
beautiful
sweet
kind
alone
miserable
cruel
wise
determined
and destroys the new creature.
Victor Frankenstein is the eldest son of a wealthy and
respected Genevese family. With his childhood companion,
Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted by his family, they grow up
e Justine Moritz, a servant, is sentenced to death for little
William's murder. Victor, filled with guilt, goes to Chamounix
to get away from it all, but there he meets the monster who
makes Victor promise that he will make him a partner.
[ Victor is very worried about what the monster will do, but he
gets married to Elizabeth and they go to Lake Como for their
honeymoon. There, the monster kills Elizabeth.
After his mother's death, Victor goes to Ingolstadt to study
science. He spends his time doing experiments and he creates
a horrific human being.
h Shortly after that, Victor's father becomes very ill and dies.
Victor decides to catch the monster and follows him to the
Caspian Sea, where he sees the monster board on a ship.
i The monster gets angry and kills Henry for revenge. The
authorities in Ireland arrest Victor for the murder, but they
free him after he is proved innocent.
i Robert Walton's men find Victor exhausted on a sheet of ice
and take him on board. He and Robert Walton become
friends and Victor tells him his story. About a month later,
Frankenstein dies of a terrible fever.
k Victor Frankenstein follows the monster's tracks through Russia.
He buys a dogsled and chases him up towards the Barents sea.
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X Х
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X
a
C. Trace the route Victor Frankenstein followed in his life. First, put
in order the places he went to by writing the numbers 1-11 in the
boxes next to the sentences below. Then transfer the numbers to
the boxes on the map on page 48 and draw the route.
Victor and his best friend Henry Clerval decide to go to
England to study further. They travel to London through
France and spend several months there.
b The creature Victor has made strangles his brother William
and Victor returns home to Geneva to console his family.
After a visit to a friend of theirs in Edinburgh, Victor leaves
Henry there and goes to one of the Orkney Islands where he
starts working on his project. However he changes his mind
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