Frankenstein 8-11

Chapter 8
1. What incriminating evidence is there against Justine?
2. Why does Justine confess to having committed the crime?
3. What was the effect of Justine’s confession on Elizabeth?
4. Why does Justine admit to committing the crime?
5. Why does Victor feel “such deep and bitter agony”?
6. Why does Justine die in peace?
Chapter 9
1. What had been Victor’s original intention and how has it turned out?
2. What keeps Victor from ending his life, and what does this tell about him?
3. How does Victor feel after the death of Justine, and why do you think he still keeps his secret to himself?

4. How does Justine’s death affect Elizabeth?
5. How does Elizabeth’s pain affect Victor?
6. Why does Victor go to the Valley of Chamounix?
Chapter 10
1. How did nature affect Victor and why does he decide to climb to Montanvert alone without a guide?

2. Whom did Victor encounter at the moment his heart is rejoicing in the wonder of Mount Blanc in its “awful majesty”?

3. What was the expression on the face of the person Victor meets?
4. How does Victor address the companion?
5. What does his creature tell Victor about himself?
6. What does Victor want to do to the creature he has created?
7. Of what does his creature say he is deprived?
8. Why does Victor relent and go to listen to the creature’s tale?
Chapter 11
1. How does the creature describe his first sensations?
2. What are his first experiences of life like?
3. What uses did he make of fire, and why does he leave the fire behind?
4. How did the villagers respond to the creature?
5. Why is it ironic that the creature refers to the “barbarity of man”?
6. What was significant about the three people who lived in the cottage next to the hovel in which the creature took refuge?
7. What did the creature notice about the relationship between the grey-haired man and the two others?

8. How was the younger man different from the others?