Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Franken-chapters Fifteen & Sixteen

1. Overall, what is the creature’s reaction to the cottagers?
The creature loves the cottagers a lot, although I do not think that they show this affection towards him.
2. What is the creature’s reaction to Milton's poem Paradise Lost? According to the creature, how is he both like and dissimilar to Adam?
I believe that he likes the poem because he feels as though he is connected to the writing in some ways, he feels that he is like Adam because he was created, and after a while, he was basically "ditched" by his creator! As Adam was after he and Eve ate the fruit from the tree.
3. What does the creature learn from papers found in Victor’s pocket?
He learned about how he was created, and about his studies, but most importantly, he learned where Victor comes from originally.
4. For what does the creature hope, and what plans does he make to achieve this hope?
I believe that he deeply wants to reveal himself to the cottagers to become part of their family, he plans to reveal himself to the father because he is blind and will not be afraid of him.
5. How does the old man react to the creature?
The creature rushes, and instead of revealing himself slowly, and gaining their trust, he reveals himself, and scares the [Censored] out of the cottagers!
6. What happens when the others return?
They move, because Felix fears that his father's life is in danger.
7. How does the creature feel? What does he wish he had done? What is his next plan?
The creature feels deeply depressed because the cottagers are afraid of him, and that was surely not his intention! He wishes that he had planned more, so the cottagers learned to accept him as their friend. He now plans to leave to Geneva so he burns down the cottage and leave.
8. What happens to the cottagers? What is the creature’s reaction to this?
The cottagers leave, and after they leave, when they do not return, he burns down the cottage to relieve himself of the anguish within him.
9. Why does the creature decide to go to Geneva? How have these horrible circumstances changed the creature?
The cottagers leave, but he wishes to confront his creator. He feels mad at humanity as a whole.
10. What happens that makes the creature feel even more bitter?
He saves a little girl from a river, but her father comes along, and "flips out" at him and shoots him while running away.
11. Why does the creature kill William? How does the creature feel afterward?
He murders William because he is part of the Frankenstein Kin. He feels quite triumphant afterwards.
12. What does the creature do with the portrait he takes from William?
The monster takes the locket and plants it in Justine's "Pocket" but in this section of the story it says "in the fold of her dress."
13. What does the creature say Frankenstein must do?
The Creature says that he must build him a mate/friend.

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