The De Lacey Family Directions: Reexamine the role the De Lacey family plays in the monster’s life and in the novel as
a whole.
1. What does the monster learn of the family’s history?

2. What does the narrative stress about each member of the family?
M. De Lacey

Felix

Agatha
Safi e

3. What elements of Romanticism are evident in the portrayal of the family?

4. Why does the monster provide services for the family? What does he want?

5. If acceptance into the De Lacey family would be a kind of paradise for Frankenstein’s creation,
what do the reactions of all three young people at the end of chapter 15 represent?