FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
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Frankenstein has a dream about Elizabeth’s death.
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Frankenstein has a dream about his own death.
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Frankenstein has a dream about the monster’s death.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Immediately after the monster comes to life, Victor has a nightmare involving a vision of Elizabeth lying dead, and then transforming so that “I thought I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms.” This vision foreshadows that Elizabeth will die, and that her death is in some way connected to the monster.
Detailed explanation-2: -An example of foreshadowing, meanwhile, can be found in Chapter Five, when Victor dreams of the death of his sweetheart, Elizabeth. Elizabeth does indeed die towards the end of the novel.
Detailed explanation-3: -Victor’s dream in chapter 5 foreshadow’s the death and misery that his creature, the product of his experiment, will produce. He sees Elizabeth die and decay before she turns into his mother.
Detailed explanation-4: -He dreams of wandering the streets of Ingolstadt and seeing Elizabeth through the haze of the night.
Detailed explanation-5: -Victor’s dream, when read as part of a context of literary analogues, may be considered the first of the many ominous warnings which foreshadow the death of Elizabeth on her wedding night. Like the grim warning the Monster later gives to Victor, this premonitory dream is also unheeded, with tragic consequences.