Chapter Questions 23 and 24

1. What is Victor’s plan for dealing with the creature?
He asks Walton to kill the monster for him.

2. Why does Victor ask Elizabeth to retire without him? What sends him running to the bedroom?
? He runs into the bedroom because he hears Elizabeth screaming. 

3. What happens to Elizabeth in the bedroom? How does Victor’s father react to this bad news?

She gets killed. He gets very upset then dies.

4. What action does Victor take? What is the result?

He chooses to tell the magistrate and to chase the monster to the north pole. He dies because of it.

5. Victor, in his anger, says to the magistrate, “How ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” What is the irony in this?

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6. How does the creature further torture Victor? Where is he leading Victor, and for what purpose?

He forces Victor to follow him. He is leading Victor to the north pole.

7. What does Victor ask of Walton?

To kill the monster.

8. Explain Victor’s statement: “When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors… All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”

It means he meant to create something wonderful and instead created a monster....

9. In your opinion, is the justification the creature offers for his actions adequate? What is his plan now?

Yes it is justifiable. He plans to commit suicide