1. Characters: In Frankenstein, there are three major characters: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Monster. Robert is generally characterized to be a youthful man who has a burning desire to explore the unknown world around him despite all of the warnings people have given him, which is similar to Victor Frankenstein, an introvert who never truly got closure for his mother’s death which ends up becoming the catalyst of his exploration of forbidden knowledge. The Monster is different from the prior because he is not actually human; he is the creation of Frankenstein who was a kind hearted being until rejection from society led to his hatred towards his creator. For all three of the main characters, Robert’s motivation is to tread into the unknown ground that has yet to be explored by anymore, Frankenstein’s motivation is to test the limits of his intelligence for the possibility of glory and eventually self-preservation, while the Monster’s motivation is to find acceptance in the world. …show more content…
The roles of the first five are to be the most important people in Frankenstein’s life, and the ones who are killed as a consequence of Frankenstein’s “tragic flaw” or constant mistakes. De Lacey, the old, blind, Parisian man, and his family plays the role of establishing what humanity can be capable of in the Monster’s eyes as well as the closest chance the Monster could ever get to acceptance (chapter 15). Going down to character relations, Henry and Frankenstein are foils due to their difference in personalities, Frankenstein and Walton are parallels because Walton was how Frankenstein was before his creation of the Monster, Frankenstein and the Monster are parallels due to their need for companionship, but they are also foils because Frankenstein has people he can love while the Monster was never given the