Victor's Family and Friends
- Alphonse Frankenstein - Victor’s father who is a doting and loving husband and father who dies from accumulated shock and sorrow. Also a sympathetic father, he consoles Victor in moments of isolation and encourages Victor to remember the significance of family.
- Caroline Beaufort - Alphonse Frankenstein takes in Caroline Beaufort when her father dies, and later on Caroline marries Alphonse making her the mother of Victor. Caroline dies of scarlet fever in which she contracts from Elizabeth when Caroline was taking care of her, just before Victor leaves for university at Ingolstadt at age of seventeen.
- Elizabeth Lavenza - Caroline adopts Elizabeth, as an orphan, from a destitute peasant cottage in Italy. Elizabeth embodies the novel’s motif of submissive women, as she waits patiently and passively for Victor’s attention.
- Justine Moritz - Another young girl who becomes adopted into the Frankenstein family during Victors childhood. Justine is falsely accused and executed for William’s murder, an act that the monster committed.
- William Frankenstein - Victor’s youngest brother of the Frankenstein family. The monster murders William by strangling him in the woods outside Geneva in order to hurt Victor for abandoning him. Victor becomes deeply saddened by William’s death and Victor burdens himself with tremendous guilt for having created the monster.
- Henry Clerval - Victor’s childhood friend, who trends Victor back to health at Victor's university in Ingolstadt. Henry decides to follow Victor's footsteps in becoming a scientist after working unhappily for his father. Henry's cheerfulness and optimism somewhat terminates Victor’s miserable and melancholy attitude.
I got mad at these people because they
were Victor's friends and family. I wish
they could have been my friends instead...
were Victor's friends and family. I wish
they could have been my friends instead...