Main characters

Victor Frankenstein: When Captain Robert Walton found Victor in the sea, he
was half- dead with cold and tiredness. He was thin and ill and couldn’t say very
much. He seemed to be unhappy and miserable because his eyes were sad.
Before the main events occurred, the book describes Victor as a man coming from
Geneva, in Switzerland. He belonged to the most important family in that country.
As a child, he travelled a lot with his parents who were kind and loved him very
much. When he was five years old, his mother adopted an orphan girl named
Elizabeth. They grew up together as brothers. Then his parents had two more
children, Ernest and William. As a child, Victor was interested in chemistry, the
secrets of the sky and the earth of the natural world. As a teenager, he became
interested in electricity and the power that existed in all natural things. He went to
the University of Ingolstadt, there he learnt about all sciences. He wanted to create
life so after studying human bodies, he created one and made it alive.
Elizabeth: She was the daughter of a rich family from Milan but her parents died
when she was a child. She lived with a poor family on a farm when Victor’s mother
met Elizabeth. She loved her immediately and adopted her. She was calm and
happy. She enjoyed reading poems and she loved the mountains around her
home. She had a very kind heart. Her smile and soft voice brought happiness to
their lives.
Henry Clerval: He was the son of a businessman from Geneva. He was a very
clever boy and he read a lot of adventure stories. He was interested in history,
adventures and dreams. At first, he didn’t go to University with Victor, he worked
with his father.
Robert Walton: He was the captain of a ship and the person who found Victor
during his journey to the North Pole. He wrote a letter to his sister Margaret, in
which he described how was Victor when he had found him. He gave Victor food,
warm clothes and helped him to feel better. He wanted to be Victor’s friend.
Monster: He was terrible ugly. He had thick black hair and white teeth, but his skin
was yellow and dry. His eyes were very pale. Because of his horrible appearance,
nobody wanted to be his friend. The monster had no other option than to be evil.
He dedicated his life to become Victor’s life miserable, because his own life was
miserable. After Victor’s death, the monster had nothing more to do, his revenge
was completed. So, he jumped off the boat and died into the cold water.
 Plot
The book starts with a letter written by captain Robert Walton to his sister Margaret
where he told her about a man he had helped named Victor Frankenstein. Victor
told Robert why he had found him in those terrible conditions. He started his
narrative by telling Walton of his family and early happy childhood. He used to live
with his parents and brothers in Geneva, Switzerland. He had two brothers, Ernest
and William and an adopted sister, Elizabeth, who had grown up with him. As a
teen, Victor became interested in the natural world.
Victor left his family to attend the university at Ingolstadt, but before departing, his
mother caught scarlet fever from Elizabeth and died. On her deathbed, she asked
Elizabeth and Victor to marry. At the university, Victor started his studies with
enthusiasm and, ignoring his social life and his family far away in Geneva, made
rapid progress. Fascinated by the mystery of the creation of life, he began to study
how the human body was built and how it fell apart. After years of hard work, he
discovered the secret of life. On one stormy night, he succeeded in bringing his
creation to life but Victor was mortified by the monster he had created and rushed
out of his apartment. Victor met Henry Clerval and invited him back to his
apartment, but immediately passed out, fell ill, and was brought back to health by
Henry.
After reading Elizabeth’s letter urging him to return and receiving a letter from his
father telling him that his brother, William, had been murdered, Victor returned to
Geneva. Victor saw the monster and became convinced that his creation was
responsible for the murder. The next day, Justine Moritz, a girl who used to live
with the Frankenstein family, was blamed for the murder. The court decided that
she was guilty. The punishment was death.
Victor felt so miserable after Justine’s so he decided to travel to the family home in
Belrive. Then, he travelled to the summit of Montanvert, where the monster
approached Victor and encouraged him to listen to the monster narrate the events
of his life.
The monster told Victor of the confusion he had experienced after being born and
his discovery of the sensations and elements of the world. The monster had
resolved to stay away from humans after a series of negative encounters.
However, the monster grew affectionate toward the de Lacey’s family. He learnt a
lot from them, like reading, writing and speaking.
The monster, after reading histories and reading papers from Victor’s journal that
explained the manner of his creation, decided to reveal himself to the family. Felix
drove the monster away, horrified by his appearance. Then, the monster told Victor
how he ran across Victor’s brother and strangled him to death. The monster said
he placed the picture of Victor’s mother in the pocket of Justine Moritz. The
monster requested Victor to make him a wife, a woman friend as similar as him
and while Victor first refused, he eventually agreed.
Victor travels to England with Henry Clerval on a two-year tour. Victor began
working on his new creation, but he had anxious thoughts about what might
happen when the new creature came to life, and after seeing the monster was
carefully looking at him through the window, Victor decided to destroy his work.
The monster was angry and threatened that he would be with Victor on his
wedding night. Victor gathered his instruments and the remains of the second
creature and threw them into the ocean, but he struggled to return to shore. When
he finally entered another town, the people told him that he was under suspicion for
a murder discovered the previous night.
Victor fell unconscious when the town magistrate showed Victor the body of Henry,
covered with the black marks of the monster’s hands around his neck. When Victor
awakened, he was greeted by his father who waited with him until the court found
him innocent of Henry’s murder. They left for Geneva, where along the way, still
riddled with thoughts of the monster’s threat, Victor received a worried letter from
Elizabeth. Victor and Elizabeth were married when he returned and they departed
for a family cottage to spend the night. Victor searched for the monster, hoping to
confront him, but after hearing Elizabeth scream, realized that the threat had been
aimed toward Elizabeth and not him. Victor’s father died a few days later, and
Victor resolved to devote the rest of his life to destroying the monster.

Victor’s story culminates in his meeting with Walton after months of searching for
the monster. On his last words, Victor asked Walton to revenge him after he is
dead. The book finishes with Walton’s letter to his sister, where Walton explains
her that after Victor’s death, he discovered the monster standing next to Victor’s
body, telling Walton how he regrated to have become an instrument of evil. There
was nothing for him to do, so he decided to jump off the boat and died into the cold
water.