| Question | Answer |
| Percy Shelley (1817) | "the being in Frankenstein is, no doubt, a tremendous creature" |
| Percy Shelley (1817) | "His original goodness was gradually turned into revenge" |
| Hugh Reginald Hawels (1886) | "deep insight into the natural workings of the human heart" |
| Hugh Reginald Hawels (1886) | "the subject is somewhat revolting, the treatment is somewhat hideous" |
| Christopher Small | "Frankenstein himself is clearly and to some extent must intentionally have been a portrayal of Shelley" |
| Christopher Small | "If he is not Shelley, he is a dream of Shelley" |
| George Levine | "he is destroyed by his own nature" |
| George Levine | "the monster and Frankenstein are doubles, two aspects of the same being" |
| George Levine | "there is simply no way to define the relationship with parents and offspring in this novel" |
| Ellen Moers | "the trauma of afterbirth" |
| Ellen Moers | "he defies mortality by giving birth" |
| Ellen Moers | "death and birth were hideously mixed" |
| Barbara Johnson | "the story of Frankenstein is the story of a man who usurps the female role by giving birth" |
| Anne Mellor | "Victor cannot do scientific research and think lovingly of Elizabeth and his family at the same time" |
| Anne Mellor | "Victor's most passionate relationships are with men rather than women" |
| Anne Mellor | "nature pursues Victor"/"nature punished Victor" |
| Marilyn Butler | "when it comes to parenting, Frankenstein himself is a monster" |
| Lawrence Lipking | "is the creature a natural man or an unnatural monster?" |
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