Chapters 23 - 24

1. What is Victor’s plan for dealing with the creature?
He plans to chase him and kill him.
2. Why does Victor ask Elizabeth to retire without him? What sends him running to the bedroom?
Victor thinks that the monster is going to kill him and he doesn't want her to see it. Elizabeth screams.
3. What happens to Elizabeth in the bedroom? How does Victor’s father react to this bad news?
Elizabeth is strangled by the monster. Victor's father is overcome with grief and dies.
4. What action does Victor take? What is the result?
Victor decides to tell the magistrate about the monster. He then goes cross country to follow the monster.
5. Victor, in his anger, says to the magistrate, “How ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” What is the irony in this?
The Magistrate has a lot of wisdom but will not acquire wisdom from elsewhere?
6. How does the creature further torture Victor? Where is he leading Victor, and for what purpose?
The creature flees, he leads Victor to the north so he will eventually die off.
8. What does Victor ask of Walton?
For him to continue on and kill the monster should he die.
9. Explain Victor’s statement: “When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors… All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”
He means that because of the creation of the monster, he is enduring never ending pain.
10. In your opinion, is the justification the creature offers for his actions adequate? What is his plan now?
I think that the monster should live and be put through the penal system like a normal human being.