Characters in Frankenstein - created from Mind Map

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Victor Frankenstein

Protagonist

Creates a monster before abandoning him

Is the son of Caroline and Alphonse Frankenstein

Brother of William and Liz (through adoption) as well as future husband

Victor follows his creature across the Arctic where he meets Walton

The monster retaliates by killing his family

Monster forces him to make a 'wife'

Frankenstein destroys this

Leads to deaths of Liz and Clerval

Dies on Walton's ship

Monster

Created and then abandoned by Victor

He is rejected by all due to looks

Meets victor and asks for a 'wife'

The monster leads Victor on a journey through Europe before the Arctic

He seeks vengeance for his treatment by killing William and setting up Justine

After Victor destroys this 'wife' he retaliates by killing Clerval and Liz

Upon Victor's death, he mourns and disappears (supposedly to his death)

Robert Walton

An explorer who wants to discover the 'Northwest Passage'

He rescues Victor and is the sole recipient of his tale

On an Arctic expedition

He records this narrative in his letters to his sister

Margaret Saville, England

Alphonse and Caroline Frankenstein

Parents of Victor and (adopted) Elizabeth

Caroline looked after her father until he died when Alphonse married her to save her from poverty

Carolines dies after nursing Elizabeth back to health from scarlet fever. Alphonse died upon the news of Elizabeth's death

Elizabeth

An orphan of noble parentage

She marries Victor after the death of Clerval

Adopted by the Frankensteins

It is intended by Caroline that she should marry Victor

Is murdered by the creature on her wedding night

Justine

Servant to the Frankenstein household

Framed for the murder of William by the monster

Most passive woman in the novel

Is an orphan too

Convicted and executed

Condemned by gender and social status

Little of her own character

Tries to mimic Caroline Frankenstein

Safie

She is the daughter of a Turkish merchant and a Christian Arab slave

Taken in by the De Laceys

Henry Clerval

Childhood friend of Victor and Liz

Murdered by the monster after Victor destroyed the monster's 'wife'

Is the opposite of Victor

Makes Victor a nicer person when he is around

Clerval is Frankenstein's 'friend and dearest companion'

Is marginalised by Victor like others when he becomes distracted with his experiment

Unfair death

Victor is ultimately responsible

Balanced charcter

Glorified version of a Romantic poet

Prefers softer landscapes

Likes the Persian and Arabic tales more than 'heroical poetry of Greece and Rome' which Victor prefers

Peter Dale Scott

Goes to uni but does not alienate others as Victor does

Combines the masculine characteristics of ambition and independence with the feminine sensitivity and affection

Overly idealised??

'loved enterprise, hardship and even danger for its own sake'

Victor prefers harsh, rugged landscapes e.g. mountains

Likes literature of conquests that result in the good of all

Arthurian tales

Clerval: 'clear valley' Frankenstein: 'open rock'

Demonstrates the differences in the their characters

Closer than Liz

Possibly his true 'soul mate'

Is also sidelined on their trip to England when Victor becomes obsessed with the creation of the female monster

Safie's father

The De Laceys

Made up of the blind father, his son, Felix, and his daughter, Agatha.

The monster stays in a shelter attached to their house

The monster goes into talk to the blind father but before he can reveal himself, the rest of the family return and reject him due to his ugliness

The monster gets an education listening to them teach Safie

The monster goes back to find the cottage deserted and burns it down in vengence

Mrs Saville

The sister of Robert Walton who the reader never actually meets

The sole recipient of Walton's letters

Supports the idea that women are supposed to listen to the men without the chance to offer their own opinion

Has no voice

The correspondence is one-sided because Walton is on a ship and therefore can't receive letters

Not really a correspondence

Frankenstein's professors

Characters in Frankenstein