Mary Shelley #240489 - Prove ed esercizi Zanichelli

Frankenstein: features

Tick the words or phrases related to Frankenstein.

A:

Electricity

B:

Knowledge

C:

Luigi Galvani

D:

Guglielmo Marconi

E:

Faith

F:

Natural man

G:

Supernatural events

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Frankenstein: origins

A:

Mary Shelley explains Frankenstein's origin at the end of the novel.

B:

The author was influenced by the ghost stories she had read.

C:

The writer took inspiration from the speculation about the re-animation of corpses.

D:

The novel was written before the death of her mother.

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Mary Shelley: life

A:

Ten months after Mary Shelley's birth, her mother died.

B:

Mary Shelley's intellectual life was poor: she was always alone in her big house.

C:

Mary Shelley's house was always full of famous writers.

D:

The Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was not welcome at Mary Shelley's house.

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Mary Shelley: life

Mary Shelley was born in ________.
Mary Shelley's parents were Mary Wollstonecraft, a ________ for women's rights, and William Godwin.
Mary Shelley's parents had both been influenced by the ideas of the ________ Revolution and were part of a small ________ group.

Completamento aperto

Frankenstein: narrative structure

The novel

A:

is told by different narrators.

B:

is at first told by Walton, then by the monster and, in the end, by Frankenstein.

C:

has only one receiver, Walton's sister.

D:

presents four different points of view.

E:

has an epistolary form.

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Frankenstein: the role of science

Mary Shelley clearly likes the monster but is ________ of his actions: this is the same tension that characterised the English intellectuals' attitude towards ________ in that period.
Mary Shelley was also interested in ________ and she knew about the latest theories and ________ in the fields of evolutionism and ________.

Posizionamento

Mary Shelley: life

In July 1814 Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley decided to spend a ________ on the banks of Lake ________ at Villa Diodati. In 1822 the Shelleys moved to Lerici, where one day Percy was caught by a ________ at sea and died. Mary went to ________ in 1823, where she continued to publish and write.

Posizionamento

Frankenstein: plot

Victor Frankenstein is a Swiss ________ who creates a human being using parts of different ________. The monster becomes a murderer and in the end he destroys his ________. The story is told through a series of letters written by Walton, a young explorer on an expedition to the ________ Pole, addressed to his ________.

Completamento chiuso

Frankenstein: literary influences

A man in a primitive state, not influenced by civilisation: ________
A giant who challenges divine authority: ________
An immediate stimulus: ________
A model for Dr Frankenstein: ________

Posizionamento

Frankenstein: themes

The main themes of the novel are the anxiety for forbidden knowledge; the figure of the overreacher in the characters of Margaret and Dr Frankenstein; the usurpation of the male role, since the creation of human beings becomes possible with the participation of women; social prejudices, here represented by the monster as an outcast.

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