Frankenstein Characters summary

Frankenstein can be boring,disgusting, difficult, hideous and most important confusing because of many vocabulary issues, literary elements and weird lenses, but all this stuff is the characters soul. Frankenstein is such a special novel because of the time that was wrote it, and even that, it was not as the top until Mary Shelley die. Frankenstein has 13 unique characters, which the main part of the story is developed by the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, but here is the interesting part, the protagonist, also is the main narrator of the novel. An interesting part of the novel is that the Frankenstein family adopt 2 little girls, Elizabeth Lavenza and Justine Moritz, the only difference between these 2 girls are their age, Elizabeth is 4-5 years younger than Victor, but afterwards this, The Frankenstein's are a wealthy Swiss family that suffered a really tragic destiny. 

Everything starts at Ingolstadt when Victor's passion for science increases exponentially. He falls into the hands of Waldman, a chemistry professor, who excites in him ambition and the desire to achieve fame and distinction in the field of natural philosophy. Thus begins the mania that will end in destroying Victor's life. Victor spends day and night in his laboratory. He develops a consuming interest in the life principle (that is, the force which imparts life to a human being). This interest develops into an unnatural obsession, and Victor undertakes to create a human being out of pieces of the dead. He haunts cemeteries and charnel houses. He tells no one of this work, and years pass without his visiting home. Finally, his work is completed: one night, the yellow eyes of the creature finally open to stare at Victor. When Victor beholds the monstrous form of his creation (who is of a gargantuan size and a grotesque ugliness), he is horror-stricken. He flees his laboratory and seeks solace in the night. When he returns to his rooms, the creature has disappeared. Until this point of the story, the characters have developed charisma, but after the Victor's leaving of the laboratory, the things start to hook up a little murky. 

Henry Clerval, Victor's boyhood friend, joins him at school, and the two begin to pursue the study of languages and poetry. Victor has no desire to ever return to the natural philosophy that once ruled his life. He feels ill whenever he thinks of the monster he created. Victor and Clerval spend every available moment together in study and play; two years pass. Then, a letter from Elizabeth arrives, bearing tragic news. Victor's younger brother, William, has been murdered in the countryside near the Frankenstein estate. 

To clarify, William is the Victor's youngest brother and the darling of the Frankenstein family. The main reason of William's death is because the monster wanted to hurted Victor for abandoning him.  

On his way back to Geneva, Victor is seized by an unnamable fear. Upon arriving at his village, he staggers through the countryside in the middle of a lightning storm, wracked with grief at the loss of his brother. Suddenly, he sees a figure, far too colossal to be that of a man, illuminated in a flash of lightning: he instantly recognizes it as his grotesque creation. At that moment, he realizes that the monster is his brother's murderer.

Upon speaking to his family the next morning, Victor learns that Justine (his family's trusted maidservant and friend) has been accused of William's murder. William was wearing an antique locket at the time of his death; this bauble was found in Justine's dress the morning after the murder. Victor knows she has been framed, but cannot bring himself to say so: his tale will be dismissed as the ranting of a madman. The family refuses to believe that Justine is guilty. Elizabeth, especially, is heartbroken at the wrongful imprisonment of her cherished friend. Though Elizabeth speaks eloquently of Justine's goodness at her trial, she is found guilty and condemned to death. Justine gracefully accepts her fate. In the aftermath of the double tragedy, the Frankenstein family remains in a state of stupefied grief.

At this moment, the monster has developed his plan safe and sound. He had murdered Victor's brother and had directly smash the Frankenstein's heart with Justine's fate. Unfortunately, that was not the total plan that the monster had in mind.

The monster concludes his tale by denouncing Victor for his abandonment; he demands that Victor construct a female mate for him, so that he may no longer be so utterly alone. If Victor complies with this rather reasonable request, he promises to leave human society forever. Though he has a brief crisis of conscience, Victor agrees to the task in order to save his remaining loved ones.

In this part, the only pure wish that the monster beg to Victor is someone, but Victor will give him another reason to make miserable his life.

Victor is nearly halfway through the work of creation when he is suddenly seized by fear. Apprehensive that the creature and his mistress will spawn yet more monsters, and thus destroy humanity, he tears the new woman to bits before the monster's very eyes. The creature emits a tortured scream. He leaves Victor with a single, most ominous promise: that he shall be with him on his wedding night.Victor takes a small rowboat out into the center of a vast Scottish lake; there, he throws the new woman's tattered remains overboard. He falls into an exhausted sleep, and drifts for an entire day upon the open water. When he finally washes ashore, he is immediately seized and charged with murder. A bewildered Victor is taken into a dingy little room and shown the body of his beloved Henry, murdered at the creature's hands. This brings on a fever of delirium that lasts for months. His father comes to escort him home, and Victor is eventually cleared of all charges.

Yeah...., kind of harsh plan the monster have in mind, but wait, the worst part is coming up. I like to name it "The Blood Moon"

At home in Geneva, the family begins planning the marriage of Elizabeth and Victor. On their wedding night, Elizabeth is strangled to death in the conjugal bed. Upon hearing the news, Victor's father takes to his bed, where he promptly dies of grief.

Wow, now at this point there are just 2 characters of the 13 that we had in the beginning, but if we look deeper in the movie, we will see that the misfortune of the protagonist is not because of the monster. It is because of the miserliness of himself.

Having lost everyone he has ever loved, Victor determines to spend the rest of his life pursuing the creature. This is precisely what the creature himself wants: now, Frankenstein will be as wretched and bereft as he is. For some time, the creator pursued his creation; he had chased him as far as the Arctic Circle when Walton rescued him. Finally, he is no longer able to struggle against his illness, and dies peacefully in his sleep. At the moment of his death, the creature appears: he mourns all that he has done, but maintains that he could not have done otherwise, given the magnitude of his suffering. He then flees, vowing that he will build for himself a funeral pyre and throw his despised form upon the flames.

Summing all characters up, we can definitely conclude that Victor is the murder of his entire family, friend and even his wife. The monster here plays the victim role because it was created as a sample of life principle. On the other hand, Victor plays the mad scientist role, whose biggest creation turns into a killer machine because of his miserliness and desires of being a god. The other characters such as his father, Elizabeth, Henry, William and Justine are doomed because of Victor's desires, and as a matter of fact, they are the price that Victor paid to become a "real scientist".