Victor unwilling to go to Ingolstadt angrily says "I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country" (28). ... Alphonse believes that this will benefit his son. ... Alphonse is a gentle father to Victor; he treats his son with respect and loyalty. ... The monster is much like a son to Victor who created him from dead bodies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After she dies, Frankenstein's father "resolved" it "necessary for the completion of" his "education for" him "to be made acquainted with other customs than those of" his "native country" and so he makes plans to study at Ingolstadt. ... Shelley made this family purposefully to illustrate the frustration of the monster; there is the patriarch, De Lacy, his son, Felix, his wife, Agatha and their children, the family was later joined by another, Safie, a Turk. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Is it true that the monster is treacherous? Walton says that Victor showed letters and that W. saw the monster, to lend credibility to the story. Victor had thought to be useful, but without due consideration to values. Epic hero: "the greatness of his fall." Victor's speech: we do something not bec...

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