THE BOOK USED IS "FRANKENSTEIN BY MARY SHELLEY" PLS HELP 100 POINTS Please answer each question in 4-5 sentences. You will also need to locate at least one example (and cite it) to support your reasonings for each question.

Chapter Four
1. Victor describes the processes he goes through to learn how to create life: “To examine
the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. I became acquainted with the
science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and
corruption of the human body.”

A. After Victor dedicates himself to the studies of life, death, and natural philosophy,
he neglects his health and family. Isn’t it ironic that he is studying life and death,
but doesn’t realize the costs to his own health? Why, if he is studying this subject,
can’t he tell that he is fading away as he is trying to animate a lifeless form? The
importance of mental health was not well-known in the 1800s. How might mental
health play a part in his deterioration?

B. What does Victor’s obsession suggest about the need to create a work-life
balance, even in the 1800s?

2. In imagining the creation of a new race of beings, Victor imagines that “No father could
claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these
reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in
process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had
apparently devoted the body to corruption.” Psychoanalytic theory in literary studies is
the analysis of a character’s psyche in relation to their thoughts and actions. Using this
theory, what can you tell about the motivations behind Victor’s experimentation and
fanaticism? How might his childhood have influenced his choices?