Frankestein

Plot
The book doesn't specify if the monster was created by one
man or several or how he was brought to life. I think we can
safely guess that the monster was brought to life using
electricity because it has such an influence on Victor.
SPOILER ALERT. I would also say that is safe to say that the
monster was probably created using more than one man
because later on Victor tears apart/destroys the monster's
companion before he completes her creation.
Characters
Victor Frankenstein
The monster
Robert Walton
Alphonse
Frankenstein
Elizabeth Lavenza
Henry Clerval
William Frankenstein
Justine Moritz
Caroline Beaufort
Beaufort
Peasants
M. Waldman
M. Krempe
Mr. Kirwin
protagonist Victor Frankenstein

antagonist Frankensteins monster

Victor Frankenstein
The doomed protagonist and narrator of the
main portion of the story. Studying in
Ingolstadt, Victor discovers the secret of life
and creates an intelligent but grotesque
monster, from whom he recoils in horror.
Victor keeps his creation of the monster a
secret, feeling increasingly guilty and ashamed
as he realizes how helpless he is to prevent
the monster from ruining his life and the lives
of others.
The monster
The eight-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation of
Victor Frankenstein. Intelligent and sensitive, the
monster attempts to integrate himself into
human social patterns, but all who see him shun
him. His feeling of abandonment compels him to
seek revenge against his creator.
setting
setting (time) Eighteenth century
setting (place) Geneva; the Swiss Alps;
Ingolstadt; England and Scotland; the
northern ice

Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankenstein,
a brilliant Swiss scientist who discovers the
secret of bringing inanimate things to life,
eventually creating a human-like monster which
proceeds to ruin his life. Most impressive is that
Mary Shelley wrote this when she was nineteen.
We dont know about you, but we certainly
werent writing earth-shattering, Halloween-
costume-generating, horror-movie-spawning
literature before we turned twenty.

The novel made an impact at the time because
of the oh-so-recent Industrial Revolution (1820s-
ish). People were scared about these new
"science" fields that were apparently capable of
ungodly horrors. Frankenstein, like any good,
famous novel, remarks on the times and reflects
the emotions of society at large, namely their
fears of science and technology