Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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M. Waldman

professor of chemistry at Ingolstadt who encourages Victor's journey in science and dismisses alchemy

The Being

Abandoned by Victor, his creator Prometheus connections seeks revenge from mistreatment

Elizabeth Lavenza/Elizabeth Frankenstein

orphan from Milan who the Frankensteins adopt in love with Victor killed by the being

France

Where the DeLacey family is from they are exiled to Germany

Agreeable Asylum

Where the being took shelter

Year of Publication

1818 1st edition 1831 2nd edition

Agatha

Felix's sister female in the De Lacey family

Henry Clerval

Frankenstein's friend from college who is killed by the being tries to help Victor nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstadt very cheerful

Mr. Kirwin

Magistrate in Ireland who accuses Victor of killing Clerval

Author

Mary Shelley

Orkneys

Place in Scotland where Frankenstein hides out to create a she-being

M. Krempe

Professor of natural philosophy who encourages Victor to dismiss alchemy and start anew

North Pole

Robert Walton is trying to discover a passage through here

Movement

Romanticism

Time Period

Romanticism

Constantinople

Safie's father tried to make her move back there, but she ran away with Felix

Robert Walton

The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein. Walton picks the bedraggled Victor Frankenstein up off the ice, helps nurse him back to health, and hears Victor's story. He records the incredible tale in a series of letters addressed to his sister, Margaret Saville, in England.

Alphonse Frankenstein

Victor's father Friends with Caroline's dad, Beaufort, and when he dies marries her

Mount Blanche

This stirred great emotion in Victor when he saw it (romantic nature feelings) It's a reminder of his home and brings him grief and fear? This is where The Being found him (2.1) From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.

Paris

Victor and Alphonse stop in Paris before going to Geneva

Caroline Beaufort/ Caroline Frankenstein

Victor's mom dies of scarlet fever after nursing Elizabeth back to health just before Victor leaves Ingolstadt at 17 wants Victor to marry Elizabeth

William Frankenstein

Victor's youngest brother, a darling/player with the ladies strangled by the Being in the woods outside of Geneva Justine blamed for his death

Archangel

Where Walton posts the second letter to Margaret Represents hell

Ireland

Where Clerval's body washes up on shore, causing a whole trial to take place and landing Frankenstein in a prison for a while

Milan

Where Elizabeth was born

Ingolstadt

Where Frankenstein went to college

England

Where Frankenstein would have to travel to obtain more information about creating a female

Geneva

Where Frankenstein's family is from

Naples

Where Victor was born

St. Petersburg

Where Walton posts the first letter to Margaret Represents heaven

De Lacey

blind peasant from Paris who talks with the being and is kind to him

Victor Frankenstein

creates the being obsessed with science

Felix

helps Safie's father escape and then she runs away to him teaches Safie (and the being) to read makes the being go away

Justine Moritz/Justine Frankenstein

lives with the Frankenstein family as a servant after the mother dies blamed for William's death and executed

Safie

welcomed by the De Lacey family in love with Felix

Germany

where the DeLacey family moves after exile from France (2.5) They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany where I discovered them.


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