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| Victor Frankenstein | creates an intelligent but grotesque monster |
| Ingolstadt | where Victor studied and learned secret of life |
| The monster | eight-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation of Victor Frankenstein |
| Robert Walton | Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein |
| To whom does Walton write the letters? | to his sister, Margaret Saville, in England |
| Alphonse Frankenstein | Victor's father, very sympathetic toward him |
| Elizabeth Lavenza | An orphan, four to five years younger than Victor, whom the Frankensteins adopts |
| Henry Clerval | Victor's boyhood friend, who nurses Victor back to health in Ingolstadt and later follows in his footsteps as a scientist |
| William Frankenstein | Victor's youngest brother and the darling of the Frankenstein family |
| What does The Monster do to William to get at Victor for abandoning him? | strangles William in the woods outside Geneva |
| Who is falsely blames for William's murder? | Justine Moritz |
| Justine Moritz | A young girl adopted into the Frankenstein household while Victor is growing up |
| Beaufort | A merchant and friend of Victor's father |
| Caroline Beaufort | After her father's death, Caroline is taken in by, and later marries, Alphonse (Victor's father) |
| Peasants | De Lacey; his son and daughter, Felix and Agatha; and a foreign woman named Safie |
| What do the peasants do when the monster reveals himself to them? | they beat him and chase him away |
| M. Waldman | professor of chemistry who sparks Victor's interest in science |
| Does M. Walden support Victor's studies? | He dismisses the alchemists' conclusions as unfounded but sympathizes with Victor's interests |
| M. Krempe | professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt |
| Does M. Krempt support Victor's studies? | He dismisses Victor's study of the alchemists as wasted time |
| Mr. Kirwin | magistrate who accuses Victor of Henry's murder |
