Meet Victor Frankentstein

We learned about the immediate Frankenstein family. Mr. Frankenstein is a well-respected and rich man. He marries Caroline the daughter of his friend Mr. Beaufort. Victor has three siblings. Elizabeth is his cousin is was orphaned and adopted by the Frankensteins.

According to the text Victor has many unusual interests. Reread this section to be reminded of all his strange reading choices

• Investigating/Exploring

• Science & Alchemy

• Curing Diseases

• Occult /Supernatural

• Definition: An EPIGRAPH is a literary device usually placed at the beginning of a document but which belongs to another writer.

• Epigraphs can be a poem, quotation, or sentence

• The point of it is to create a connection, introduce a theme or topic, give an example or create an association.

DID I REQUEST THEE, MAKER ,FROM CLAY TO TO MOULD ME MAN? DID I SOLICIT THEE FROM DARKNESS TO PROMOTE ME?

— PARADISE LOST

In Chapter 1, Victor Frankenstein tells the reader that he remembers hearing his mother praise Elizabeth for her beauty and her kind personality. Victor further describes that his mother had made a determination, "These indications, and a desire to bind as closely as possible the ties of domestic love, determined my mother to consider Elizabeth as my future wife."