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CharactersVictor
- Oldest son in Frankenstein family
- Husband of Elizabeth Lavenza
- Narrator of most of story – tells story to Robert Walton who tells it to the reader
- Thirst for knowledge and powerful ambition
Studies biology at Ingolstadt – discovers secrets of life and uses knowledge to create his own
living being
- Prejudiced – cannot stand his creature’s ugliness
Thinks it’s a monster – actually kind and loving
- Abandonment on monster – cycle of guilt, anger and destruction
Monster takes vengeance on Frankenstein – victor swear vengeance on the monster
- Resembles the monster he hates more than he would care to imagine by the end
The monster
- Hideous looking monster that Frankenstein creates
- Nameless
- Originally kind and sensitive – wants to be loved and accepted
Surrounded by people who judge it as evil due to its appearance
- Isolated and demonized by society – becomes embittered and enraged at its treatment
- Becomes a killer – desire for revenge against victor and humanity for rejecting him
Not from a criminal thirst to hurt
Robert Walton
- Explorer who rescues victor from the ice – hears his story and send it in letters to his sister Margaret
Saville
- Quest for knowledge in north pole – parallels victor’s search for education and enlightenment
Double of victor – mirror and contrast victor’s actions
Elizabeth Lavenza
- Victor’s sister by adoption and later his wife
- Beautiful and pure girl who victor’s mother adopts
- Adored by all the Frankenstein’s
- Victor wants to ‘protect, love and cherish’ her
- Remains passive throughout narrative
De Lacey
- Blind old man who lives in exile with his children Felix and Agatha in a cottage
- Cant perceive monster’s wretchedness – does not recoil in horror at his presence
- Represents goodness of human nature in the absence of prejudice
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