Frankenstein Themes

- Duty
- Responsibility
- Creation/Monstrosity
- Fear/Terror/Suffering
- Education/Science/Knowledge
- Settings
- Family/Society/Isolation
- Revenge
- Justice/Injustice
- Texts
- Ambition

Key Themes
1. Benevolence: among the highest of Enlightenment virtues, the active expression of
love and sympathy for one's fellow beings.
3. Death: the frequency of death, and the place of the dead, are both involved in this
theme.
4. Delusion the opposite of candour and truth, dissimulation involving others or oneself.
And Depravity: a word subsuming both a sense of sin and original sin.
6. The blurring of nobility and savagery.
7. Family and nuclear relationships: the value of the domestic circle is a central issue of
this novel.
8. Justice/ Revenge: how it functions; who is in control of it; who suffers or is
privileged by it.
9. Solitude, isolation and alienation: involving its effects on various characters in the
novel. a sense of not belonging, either to a community or to one's own sense of self.
11. Unnatural relationships
12. Prejudice Ambition/ Obsession
15. Misery and Despair
Character
1. Victor
2. Creature
3. Walton
4. Elizabeth
5. De Laceys
6. Justine (and Safie and Agatha)
7. Caroline (and other maternal figures)
8. Henry and other sons (William, Ernest , Felix)
9. Father figures – Alphonse, Beaufort, Waldman, Krempe