Across
- 3. Technique used to signal impending tragedy
- 4. Moral decay that follows abandonment
- 7. Moral obligation Victor repeatedly evades
- 10. Romantic concept evoked by vast, terrifying natural landscapes
- 12. Literary movement privileging emotion and imagination over reason
- 15. Condition both characters believe will bring peace
- 16. Narrative structure in which stories are nested within letters and embedded accounts
- 19. Emotion that haunts Victor
- 22. Restorative force that temporarily soothes Victor
- 23. Basis for society’s judgment of the creature
- 25. Capacity the creature demonstrates before turning vengeful
- 27. Self-imposed withdrawal that leads to destruction
- 30. Mythic archetype associated with forbidden knowledge
- 33. Symbol associated with discovery and danger
- 35. Trait that propels both Walton and Victor
- 36. Setting of confrontation that reflects emotional intensity
- 37. Social force shaping the creature’s fate
- 38. Power Victor seeks without ethical restraint
- 39. Intellectual movement privileging rationality and scientific progress
Down
- 1. Crossing moral or natural boundaries
- 2. Desire motivating the creature’s demand
- 5. The creature’s formative emotional experience
- 6. Sense of inevitability expressed in Victor’s narration
- 8. Victor’s destructive fixation
- 9. Symbol of both enlightenment and destruction
- 11. Victor’s retrospective storytelling mode
- 13. Victor’s first moral failure
- 14. Genre pattern fulfilled by Victor’s downfall
- 17. Psychological state shared by both Victor and the creature
- 18. Process through which the creature develops moral awareness
- 20. Excessive pride that drives Victor beyond moral limits
- 21. Symbolic landscape of desolation and ambition
- 24. Literary concept describing the creature as Victor’s double
- 25. Form of narration used in Walton’s letters
- 26. State embodied by William and Justine
- 28. Social failure revealed in Justine’s trial
- 29. The creature’s chosen response to suffering
- 31. Text that shapes the creature’s self-understanding
- 32. Reference to Milton’s epic read by the creature
- 34. Act that initiates tragedy
