Sunday 18 November 2012

FRANKENSTEIN


Frankenstein

1.      A-He was on the edge of the frozen North. B- There was a storm. C- He found two men. An enormous being, the shape of a man (8 feet tall) and a man of average size who was weak

2.       A-His parents, his two brothers, Ernest and William, and his adopted sister Elizabeth. B- The first thing that changed his life was seeing a tree burnt down by lightning because that experience made him realised the incredible power of nature. He thought that if that power could wipe out life, it could also destroy life. The second thing that changed his life was his mother’s death because he loved her very much and it was her love that kept his family very close. C- She asked Victor that he had to take her place then and that he had to keep the family together and looked after his brothers. She also asked him to marry Elizabeth.

3.       A- Professor Waldmann was Victor’s professor at the University of Ingolstadt where we went to study Natural Sciences. B- The professor wanted to destroy his job because it could change the way to see the world forever and it was dangerous to find out the meaning of life. C- Victor tried to remember everything as they destroy the work and he wrote it down later.

4.       A-He wanted to create a perfect being, the son every father dreams of; intelligent, handsome, loving and kind. B- He used different parts from many bodies, Professor Walmann’s brain and a kite to attract electricity C- the result of the experiment was a kind of yellow and wrinkled human being with the face of skeleton. It was very tall (8 feet tall) and with a lot of scars. D- Victor was frightened. He screamed and ran away because he was sure that he was coming to kill him. E- After that Victor fell ill and went to stay with his friend Henry Clerval and it took him a month to recover.

5.       A-Justine was accused of killing Victor’s brother, William. She was found guilty because they found William’s locket in the pocket of a coat she was wearing that day. B- So they put her in prison. Finally, a judge ordered that she be hanged.

6.       A-It believed it was a world of love but the people were afraid of him and it felt that it was a world of hate. B- While the creature was looking for a safe place, he saved a girl from drowning but the people threw stones to it instead of thanked it. C- In an old hut nearby, in the woods there was a cottage. A blind man treated him well and hidden in that house he learnt how to write and read. He discovered how he was created. One of the members thought that he was going to hurt the blind man and he screamed.

7.       A- It felt that it was a world of hate. B-It asked Victor to make him a wife.

8.       A – He agreed at the beginning because if he didn’t do that he would kill his family. B- He destroyed his work when he saw the monster because he realised that what he was doing was mad. C-The creature screamed, cried like a baby and went mad.

9.       A-Victor was afraid because the monster wanted to kill Elizabeth after the wedding. B- It killed Elizabeth and victor felt emptiness and wanted to kill the monster

10.     A- at the very end of the story the creature was standing over Frankenstein’s dead body. It said that killing Victor’s family was the only way to hurt him.  B- The monster wanted to kill himself. C- the moral of the story is ¨ That people are more important that knowledge¨ D- Finally, the captains send Victor’s notes to Ernest, Frankenstein’s brother.