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Professor Regina Buccola of Roosevelt University explains the main characters in Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein (1818).
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Victor Frankenstein | Frankenstein is the scientist who created the Monster. Read More |
| The Monster | The Monster is the eight-foot-tall monster Victor Frankenstein creates. Read More |
| Robert Walton | Walton is the Arctic explorer whose letters to his sister open and close the novel. Read More |
| Henry Clerval | Victor's closest friend, Henry is a fellow student at the university. Read More |
| Elizabeth Lavenza | Victor's cousin, Elizabeth is also his adopted sister and, later, his wife. Read More |
| Alphonse Frankenstein | Alphonse is Victor's father. Read More |
| Justine Moritz | One of the servants in the Frankenstein household, Justine is framed for the murder of William Frankenstein. Read More |
| Agatha De Lacey | Agatha is a French exile and the daughter of M. De Lacey, whom she treats with great kindness and deference. |
| Felix De Lacey | Felix is a French exile and the son of M. De Lacey. He is in love with a Turkish woman, Safie, and rescues her and her father at great personal danger. |
| M. De Lacey | The head of the family of exiles the Monster hopes to join, M. De Lacey is old, blind, and poor. Descended from a good family in France, he lost his fortune, social standing, and home when he helped Safie's father, who later betrayed him. |
| Caroline Frankenstein | Caroline is Victor's mother, who dies of scarlet fever after nursing her niece/daughter Elizabeth through the same illness and expressing her long-held hope that Victor will marry Elizabeth. |
| Ernest Frankenstein | Ernest is Victor's younger brother. |
| William Frankenstein | William is Victor's youngest brother and the Monster's first victim. |
| Mr. Kirwin | Kirwin is a judge in charge of Victor's trial in Ireland for the death of Henry. |
| M. Krempe | An arrogant science professor at the University of Ingolstadt, Krempe is one of Victor's teachers and mocks him. |
| Magistrate | The magistrate is a criminal judge in Geneva to whom Victor relates his story about the Monster. |
| Daniel Nugent | Nugent is a witness in Victor's murder trial in Ireland. |
| Nurse | The nurse cares for Victor while he is in prison in Ireland. |
| Safie | The beautiful Turkish woman whom Felix De Lacey loves, Safie leaves Italy after her father's betrayal of the De Laceys and makes her way to that family. |
| Safie's Father | A treacherous Turkish merchant, Safie's father is helped by Felix De Lacey but then betrays his family. |
| Margaret Saville | Margaret is Robert Walton's sister and the person to whom he addresses his letters. |
| M. Waldman | A kindly chemistry professor at the University of Ingolstadt, Waldman supports Victor's ambition and teaches him a great deal about chemistry. |
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