In Mary Shelley s novel, Frankenstein is the name of
- A.the monster
- B.the scientist who makes the creature
- C.the village where the story is set
- D.the ship that rescues the narrator
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the scientist who makes the creature. Victor Frankenstein is a student of natural philosophy who assembles a being from dead matter and gives it life, then abandons it in horror; the being itself is never named in the novel and is called the creature, the being or the daemon. Option A is the everyday misuse that the question is built on, since films and common speech have long called the monster Frankenstein. Option C is wrong because the book moves across Geneva, Ingolstadt, Scotland and the Arctic rather than one village. Option D is wrong because the ship that picks up Victor in the Arctic belongs to the explorer Robert Walton, whose letters frame the story. Published in 1818, when Mary Shelley was barely twenty, the novel is often called the first work of science fiction.
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