Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is the main character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. He is an Italian-Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature, often referred to as Frankenstein's monster, or often colloquially referred to as simply "Frankenstein". Victor later regrets meddling with nature through his creation, as he inadvertently endangers his own life, as well as the lives of his family and friends, when the creature se ...more

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #2)
Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #3)
This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)
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How much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Then the appearance of death was distant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts, and I often sat for hours motionless and speechless, wishing for some mighty revolution that might bury me and my destroyer in its ruins.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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