Victor Frankenstein

1. Victor Frankenstein
Danny CHO

2. Characters of Frankenstein
•Victor Frankenstein (person who made a monster)
•Monster (Frankenstein) (monster)
•Robert Walton (The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and
close Frankenstein)
•Alphonse Frankenstein (Victor’s father)
•Elizabeth Lavenza (Victor’s adopted sister)
•Henry Clerval (Victor’s boyhood friend. [best friend])
•William Frankenstein (Victor’s younger brother)
•Beaufort (A merchant and friend of Victor's father; the father of
-Caroline Beaufort)
•Caroline Beaufort ( Alphonse Frankenstein’s wife)
•M. William (Professor of chemistry)
•M. Krempe (Professor of nature philosophy)

3. Who is V. Frankenstein?
•The doomed protagonist and narrator of the main
portion of the story. Studying in Ingolstadt, Victor
discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent
but grotesque monster, from whom he recoils in
horror. Victor keeps his creation of the monster a
secret, feeling increasingly guilty and ashamed as he
realizes how helpless he is to prevent the monster
from ruining his life and the lives of others.

4. Novel of the story
•He is the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, the latter of whom died of
scarlet fever when he was young. Victor had two younger brothers — William Frankenstein,
the youngest, who was killed by Victor's creation, and Ernest Frankenstein, the middle
child, who wants to join the Foreign Service like a "true Genevese". Victor fell in love with
his adoptive sister, Elizabeth Lavenza (in the 1818 text, his biological cousin; in the 1831
revision, a blonde among Gypsies whom his mother doted upon).
•As a young man, Frankenstein was enamored with alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa,
Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, and he longed to discover the fabled elixir of life. He
loses interest in both these pursuits and in science as a whole after seeing the remains of a
tree struck by lightning. However, at the University of Ingolstadt, Frankenstein develops a
fondness for chemistry. Unfortunately, he becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life
in inanimate matter through artificial means, leaving university to pursue this goal for the
next two years.
•Assembling a humanoid creature perhaps by stitching together pieces of human corpses,
perhaps by the use of a chemical, apparatus or a combination of both (he avoids the
question three times when asked, though the fact that he noted lightning striking down a
tree in his childhood is perhaps a clue), Frankenstein successfully brings it to life only to be
repulsed and terrified by its monstrous ugliness. He abandons and flees his creation, who
disappears and soon embarks upon a journey of vengeance that results in the deaths of
several of Frankenstein's family and friends. When the monster demands that Victor create
a companion for him, Victor agrees, but upon considering it, he destroys the half-created
monster resulting in the death of his closest friend.
•Frankenstein pursues the "fiend" or "demon" (as he calls his creation) to the Arctic with the
intent of destroying it; he ultimately fails in his mission, however, and after relating his tale
to the captain of a ship of explorers that has picked him up, he dies of pneumonia. His
creature, upon discovering the death of its creator, is overcome by sorrow and says that he
will end the novel by vowing to commit suicide by burning himself alive, although this is not
shown explicitly in the novel

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