Frankenstein Themes, Characters and Context
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- Frankenstein
- Characters
- Victor Frankenstein
- Main character, his obsession of science drove him to create the Monster. He was in love with Elizabeth. Feeling increasingly guilty and ashamed he realized that keeping the monster a secret was harming himself and his family. He studied in Ingolstadt.
- The Monster
- He was the creation of V. He learnt how to speak via the De Lacy family. He killed William, Elizabeth, Henry. All who see him are scared of him. V abandoned him and this abandonmentcompels him to see revenge against his creator.
- Elizabeth (Frankenstein)
- The Frankenstein family adopted her so that she will marry Victor when they are both older.
- Henry Clerval
- V's best friend throughout Childhood. He nurses V back to health in Ingolstadt. He becomes a scientist.
- Robert Walton
- He was an Arctic sailor/voyager whose letters to his sister open and close the novel. He picks up V who tells him his story.
- Victor's Parents
- Mother died of Scarlet Fever when V was young. Father died of grief.
- Justine and William
- Justine worked for the Frankenstein family. She was convited for William's death. William was V's brother. He was murdered by the Monster
- Victor Frankenstein
- Themes
- Man Vs Science
- Science Vs Religion
- Nature
- Regret
- Obsession
- Secrecy
- Responsibility
- Isolation
- Knowledge and the consequences it brings
- Context
- Mary Shelley's mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminest, philosopher and writer
- She had an affair with Percy Shelley, the 'Romantic' poet. They ran away to Geneva.
- The works of John Milton (Paradise Lost) and the myth Prometheus inspired her to write Frankenstein as a horror story to entertain her friends.
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