Who is Who in Frankenstein
This book is a story inside a story. A captain in the northern seas hears one man's tale, and in the middle of that tale another voice tells its own. Everyone is grouped by whose story you meet them in. Pick anyone and jump to the chapters they appear in.
Walton's letters 2
The people in the letters a captain bound for the northern seas writes to his sister. The outer layer of the story.
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Robert Walton
A twenty-eight-year-old English explorer who sets out to find a passage near the North Pole. Every story in the book sits inside his letters to his sister
Relations sibling of Margaret Saville
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Margaret Saville
Walton's sister, who receives his letters in England. She never speaks in the book herself
Relations sibling of Robert Walton
Victor's tale 12
The people you meet in the story Victor tells the captain.
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Victor Frankenstein
A man rescued from the ice by Walton's ship while chasing something by dog sledge. The book's title is his name
Relations son of Alphonse Frankenstein · son of Caroline Beaufort
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The creature
The being Victor spent nearly two years making in a room at the top of a house in Ingolstadt. He is about eight feet tall. The book never gives him a name
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Elizabeth Lavenza
A Milanese nobleman's daughter brought to Victor's home from a cottage on Lake Como. She grows up with Victor, and the two call each other cousin
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Alphonse Frankenstein
Victor's father, a respected man who held several public offices in the republic of Geneva. He took in Caroline, the daughter of a ruined friend, and married her
Relations husband of Caroline Beaufort · father of Victor Frankenstein · father of William Frankenstein · father of Ernest Frankenstein
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Henry Clerval
Henry Clerval, a Geneva merchant's son and Victor's closest childhood friend. He loves tales of knights and adventure, and dreams of being remembered for doing good
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William Frankenstein
Victor's youngest brother, tall for his age, with dimples in both cheeks when he smiles
Relations son of Alphonse Frankenstein
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Justine Moritz
A servant who came to Victor's home at twelve after her own mother mistreated her. She revered and imitated Victor's mother
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Caroline Beaufort
Victor's mother, daughter of the ruined merchant Beaufort. Orphaned after nursing her father, she was taken in by Victor's father. She treats caring for the poor as more than a duty
Relations wife of Alphonse Frankenstein · mother of Victor Frankenstein
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Professor Krempe
Professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt, short and gruff-voiced. He dismisses the alchemy Victor has read as thousand-year-old fancies
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Professor Waldman
Professor of chemistry at Ingolstadt, a kindly man of about fifty. He speaks of the miracles of modern chemistry without scorning the old alchemists
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Ernest Frankenstein
Victor's second brother, who loves the hills and the lake more than books and wants to join a foreign army
Relations son of Alphonse Frankenstein
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Mr. Kirwin
An elderly magistrate in an Irish coastal town, mild and calm by nature. He questions Victor after the sea washes him ashore
Appears in
The creature's tale 4
The people in the story the being Victor made tells in its own words, at the heart of his tale.
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Felix De Lacey
Old De Lacey's son. For rescuing an unjustly condemned Turkish merchant, he and his family lost their fortune and were exiled
Relations son of Old De Lacey
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Old De Lacey
A blind old man living in a remote cottage in Germany. From a good French family, he cheers his son and daughter with music and kind words despite their poverty
Relations father of Felix De Lacey · father of Agatha De Lacey
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Agatha De Lacey
Old De Lacey's daughter, who keeps house in the poor cottage and gently cares for her blind father
Relations daughter of Old De Lacey
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Safie
A Turkish merchant's daughter who learned an independent spirit from her freeborn mother. Defying her father, she travels alone to find Felix