Characters
"Evil thenceforth became my good" was declared by this character.
The Creature
This important early weather event inspires Victor to eventually create the creature
Lightning strike
Victor's hometown
Geneva
A reference to John Milton's Paradise Lost, the creature tells Victor that while he "ought to be thy Adam," he is instead
Satan
Just because science can do something, does it mean they should? This character would have been wise to have considered that.
Victor Frankenstein
This character was the actual person with the Creature on the "wedding night."
Elizabeth Lavenza
These two characters both undergo legal trouble in the novel. The first person's events end in tragedy, the second is perhaps tragic irony
Justine and Victor
The university where Victor studies
Ingolstadt
This Greek myth about a god whose decision to introduce man to fire resulted in eternal punishment is the subtitle of this novel
Prometheus
The De Lacey family's story is the "heart" of this literary device
Frame narrative
We don't know what happened to this overlooked family member by the end of the novel.
Ernest Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is influenced by these two scientific practices in his early life: one he's criticized for and the other praised
Alchemy and natural philosophy
The second home of the Frankensteins where they go to escape after a family tragedy
Belrive
This epic Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem is repeatedly referenced in the novel
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
There are a lot of characters in this novel that may be considered untrustworthy, or we might call them this
Unreliable narrator
This character died from grief over their many losses
Alphonse Frankenstein
The creature is a victim of a gunshot wound after he commits this "horrific" action
Saving a drowning girl
The creature's home for many months as he learns to speak and read
Victor Frankenstein feels admiration and pity for this surprising historical character
King Charles I
Frankenstein begs the question of whether a person's character is a result of their upbringing or being "born" a certain way, also known as
Nature versus nurture
This character is instrumental in helping get Victor acquitted after he is accused of killing his best friend
M. Kirwin
Felix De Lacey and his family were exiled from their home after Felix committed this crime
Breaking the Turk (Safie's father) out of prison
This unnamed village was the cite of whose murder
Clerval
Victor describes his best friend as a being formed in "the very poetry of nature," a reference to The Story of Rimini that describes two lovers from this other famous theological fan-fic
Dante's Inferno
Victor Frankenstein provides a moral lesson about the dangers of ambition at any cost. This other character also provides the reader a mirror example of this idea
Robert Walton