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1. How is the story of Victor's mother's death ironic? 2. What does Victor contemplate in the first hours of his departure? How do these thoughts indicate his future? 3. Why does Vicctor not want to study the contemporary scientists suggested by M. Krempe? 4. What ultimately changes Victor's mind about new chemists? 5. Compare the physiognomy of Krempe and Waldman. 6. What is the literary term for M. Waldman and the effect that his lecture and guidance have on Victor? 7. Why does Victor favor science above all other disciplines? 8. How is Victor's practice of science different from the modern practice of science? 9. Why does Victor hisitate to make a creature like man? Why does he go through with it? 10. What traditional tragic flaw is Victor demonstrating? 11. What is the central flaw in Victor's decision what to create? 12. What internal conflict does Victor deal with as he finishes his creation? 13. List some gothic details from the end of Chapter IV 14. What is Romantic in the moral Victor shares with Walton?

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