A. His Promethean striving to exceed human limitations as explored by Byron and Percy Shelley
B. Its suggestion that the natural order has laws beyond human control
C. His desire to create a political revolution
D. Both A and B
Related Mcqs:
- At what age did Mary Shelley start writing the novel Frankenstein ?
A. 26
B. 18
C. 31
D. 24 - In which edition of the novel Frankenstein the name of the author Mary Shelley first appeared ?
A. 2nd Edition
B. 1st Edition
C. 4th Edition
D. 3rd Edition - Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?
A. Captain Cooper
B. Victor Frankenstein
C. Captain Robert Walton
D. Sergent Thomas Vincent - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
C. The poet as special interpreter of the world
D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world - Whom did monster demand to Victor Frankenstein to create for him ?
A. Someone who can transform him
B. Another monster
C. Another creature without the fearful features
D. A female companion - In which year Mary Shelley visited the famous Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments ?
A. 1816
B. 1814
C. 1808
D. 1812 - In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster ?
A. University of Tübingen
B. University of Greifswald
C. University of Freiburg
D. University of Ingolstadt - In “Frankenstein” how does Shelley represent science ?
A. As potentially productive when used correctly
B. As something needed for humans to advance
C. As a way to resolve human madness
D. As inherently monstrous - Who should NOT be viewed as Prometheus in Shelley’s “Frankenstein” ?
A. Frankenstein’s monster
B. Mary Shelley
C. Robert Walton
D. Frankenstein - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen
