35 Facts About Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Victor Frankenstein is an Italian-born Swiss scientist who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature.

Victor Frankenstein is first introduced in the novel when he is seeking to catch the monster near the North Pole and is saved from potential fatality by Robert Walton and his crew.

Victor Frankenstein was a pen name of Percy Shelley's, as in the collection of poetry he wrote with his sister Elizabeth, Original Poetry by Victor Frankenstein and Cazire.

Percy Shelley's sister and Victor Frankenstein's adopted sister were both named Elizabeth.

Victor Frankenstein was born in Naples to a French Swiss family.

Victor Frankenstein was the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, who died of scarlet fever when Victor was 17.

Victor Frankenstein falls in love with Elizabeth Lavenza, who became his adoptive sister and, eventually, his fiancee.

Victor Frankenstein then becomes curious about the nature of life and his studies lead him to a miraculous discovery that enables him to create life in inanimate matter.

Victor Frankenstein flees from his creation, who disappears and, after several negative encounters with the locals, swears revenge on his creator.

When his youngest brother, William, is found murdered, Victor Frankenstein knows instantly that his creation is the killer, but says nothing.

The creature approaches Victor Frankenstein and begs him to create a female companion for him.

Victor Frankenstein agrees, but ultimately destroys this creation, fearing the idea of a race of monsters.

Victor Frankenstein pursues the "fiend" or "Demon" to the Arctic, intending to destroy it.

Victor Frankenstein has great curiosity about the world, and even recalls that some of his earliest memories were his realizations about the laws of nature.

Finally, after the monster is created, Victor Frankenstein is consumed with guilt, despair, and regret, leading him to obsess over the nature of his creation and seek revenge.

Mary Shelley did not invent the expression, which had already been used in the early 18th century and, closer to its end, by Immanuel Kant, and Victor Frankenstein goes far beyond the technical substratum, presenting, in addition to its borrowings from myth, metaphysical, aesthetic and ethical aspects.

Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a man seeking to surpass his condition, akin to that of Icarus, the bird-man destroyed by the physical order of the universe.

Victor Frankenstein evokes Pygmalion, king of Cyprus and a sculptor in love with the statue of a woman he has just completed, a new Galatea of flesh and blood after Aphrodite breathes life into her.

Victor Frankenstein is Prometheus Pyrophoros, the bearer, transporter and provider of fire.

Victor Frankenstein's deliverance implies the fall of Jupiter, which is precisely the birth of the Golden Age.

The only thing Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and his wife's Victor Frankenstein have in common, then, is the act of transgression - beneficial in one, evil in the other, responsible in the former, irresponsible in the latter.

Only a few elements in Victor Frankenstein recall this first version of the myth.

Walton hopes to discover a hidden paradise beyond the polar ice caps; Victor Frankenstein claims to conquer death and improve the human race; the monster provides the De Laceys with firewood: here, in grotesque miniature - for while he possesses the Titan's power, he lacks its mighty beauty - is a vignette reproducing exactly the main gesture of the myth, that of providing man with fire.

The vocabulary used by Victor Frankenstein, who is not Mary Shelley's spokesman, as he constructs his narrative by restructuring his life and putting it into perspective in the light of what he has retained from it, with its weaknesses, its emotional burdens, its weight of character, is limited to a semantics of research and discovery.

One of the functions of nature in Victor Frankenstein is to suggest, if only on a sensory and perceptual level, the presence of transcendence - harmony in the Rhine valley, sovereign grandeur atop the Alpine peaks, infinity and eternity on the icy oceans.

Soon, the inner landscape becomes nocturnal, on the edge of consciousness, a dark, convulsive, spasmodic turmoil; through a play of mirrors reminiscent of the nested, reflective structure, the monster to which Victor Frankenstein has nevertheless given life becomes the very projection of his death wish.

Walton fails to reach the continent of happiness; Victor Frankenstein destroys his loved ones by procuration before destroying himself; the monster immolates himself with the fire that promoted him to being.

Victor Frankenstein entrusts each with words, and therefore character traits, principles, actions, feelings and emotions that she seems to approve of, and others that she rejects.

Mary Shelley's response to Victor Frankenstein's transgression is to be found in the very unfolding of the action.

Insofar as the higher moral instance cannot be identified, since in many ways Victor Frankenstein's world is a world without God, it is appropriate to use the vocabulary of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, known and appreciated by Coleridge, published in 1787, and simply evoke the presence of a categorical imperative.

The psychological singularity of the characters, especially Victor Frankenstein, exists, but is far from fundamental.

Victor Frankenstein's transgression was a crime against humanity and, beyond that, against the Being itself: it was an ontological crime.

The Universal Epic Universe area Dark Universe reveals that Henry Frankenstein has a great-great-great-granddaughter named Victoria Frankenstein who is following in Henry's footsteps where she created her version of Frankenstein's monster.

The attraction "Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment" has Victoria working to find a way to get control of the monsters that attack Darkmoor Village which doesn't go the way she hoped.