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1. Explain how Victor Frankenstein's parents met?

Victor's father, Alphonse Frankenstein helped a freind, Beaufor, who fell on hard times. After Beaufort died, Alphonse cared for and eventually married Beaufort's daughter, Caroline.

2. Summarize how Mary Shelley interjects her social interest of caring for the poor into Frankenstein?

Alphonse cares for Beaufort when he becomes poor. Caroline regularly visits and helps the poor. Elizabeth is adopted from a poor family who can no longer care for her.

3. Explain how Shelley portrays the women, Caroline, and Elizabeth?

Caroline and Elizabeth are both portrayed as virtuous women who are recued, cared for, and protected by men. Elizabeth is also presented to Victor as a gift.

4. Describe Victor's childhood?

Victor enjoys an idyllic childhood and is doted on by his parents as they travel throughout Europe.

5.Explain how Elizabeth comes into the Frankenstein home?

When Caroline meets a peasant family who has taken in Elizabeth from a Milanese noble man. The family can no longer afford to care for Elizabeth, so the Frankensteins adopt her.

6. How does Victor feel about Elizabeth?

He adores her and feels that she is "mine to protect, love, and cherish" and she is "my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only."

7.Explain victor's social tendencies and how he interacts with friends?

Victor tends to avoid crowds and instead, forms close friendship with only a few people (Henry Clerval).

8.Contrast (Compare) Victor's academic interests with those of his friend, Henry Clerval?

Victor desires to learn about science- the secrets of heaven and earth, and the "inner spirit of nature" and the "physical secrets of the world," while Henry Clerval prefers the "moral relations" of things, including history and literature.