# Frankenstein — Questions

> Reading questions for Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

- [Why does Victor abandon the creature?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/why-does-victor-abandon-the-creature.md): Victor flees because success disgusts him. He has spent months imagining a beautiful triumph; the living body — yellow skin, watery eyes, the details he chose and then cannot bear — shatters that fantasy. Abandonment is 
- [Why does the creature become violent?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/why-does-the-creature-turn-violent.md): The creature’s violence is learned, and the book is explicit about the sequence. He begins with benevolence: he gathers wood for the De Laceys, longs to join them, and educates himself on purpose. Rejection — Felix’s blo
- [Why is the creature so eloquent?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/why-is-the-creature-eloquent.md): Eloquence is Shelley’s argument, not a realism mistake. The creature learns language by observation — the De Laceys, Safie’s lessons, Paradise Lost, Plutarch, Werther — and then uses that language to demand recognition f
- [What does Walton’s frame narrative do?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/what-does-waltons-frame-do.md): Robert Walton’s letters make Frankenstein a story about listeners, not only about a monster. Walton is already risking his crew for glory in the Arctic when he takes the dying Victor aboard. Victor’s confession is meant 
- [Why does Justine Moritz die?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/why-does-justine-die.md): Justine dies because Victor knows who killed William and says nothing. The creature plants evidence; the court believes a servant’s guilt because it is convenient; Justine, under religious pressure, confesses to a crime 
- [Who is the real monster in Frankenstein?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/who-is-the-real-monster.md): The novel refuses a single answer, and that refusal is the point. The creature murders; Victor abandons, lies, and lets Justine die. Village prejudice judges a face; Victor’s science judges a triumph. Shelley keeps both 
- [Why does Victor create the creature?](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/frankenstein_se/questions/why-does-victor-create-the-creature.md): Victor creates the creature out of ambition dressed as discovery — a hunger to pierce the boundary between life and death, win glory, and become the father of a new species. Grief after his mother’s death sharpens the ob

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