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1. What is familiar about the method of teh murder discovered in this chapter? 2. Who has been murdered, and why is Victor accused of the murder? 3. Why does Victor think he survived all that he had been through? How is the fact that he lives ironic? 4. Victor makes several references to his destiny in this chapter. What does he believe his destiny to be? 5. What does the word "torpor" mean in the following context?: "But my general state of being was a torpor, in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature"? 6. Why does Victor feel he can't be with people? What opinion does Victor express about his creation? 7. What is ironic about the desires of Victor and the creature? 8. Why does Victor decide to marry Elizabeth immediately? 9. In what way does Elizabeth restore the Romantic Victor? 10. What do you think will happen on Victor and Elizabeth's wedding night? 11. How does Shelley build suspense in these chapters? 12. What evidence is there to suggest what the creature really means by his threat to be with Frankenstein on his wedding night?

2006 Summer Blog