FRANKESTEIN

MARY SHELLEY, 1818

FRANKENSTEIN

(1792-1822)

Romantic poet

British writer, essayist, and philosopher

Percy Bysshe Shelley

(1797-1851)

MARY SHELLEy

THE AUTHOR

early English feminist thinker

prominent political philosopher

Mary Wollstonecraft

William Godwin

Family Background

Publication History

The best horror story

VICTOR FRANKEN STEIN

ambition

isolation

scientific responsibility

Gothic literature classic

The protagonistScietist that created the monsterInterest in natral sciencesVery determined

VICTOR FRANKESTEIN

CHARACTERS

yellow and shy eyesyellow skin black and shiny hair white theetblack and stright lipsinitially:innocent and look for love then: more intelligent and it want to revenge

CHARACTERS

THE CREATURE

the narrator

ROBERT WALTON

CHARACTERS

ELIZABETH

orphan girl adopted by Frankestein familyVictor's wifeblonde hair and blue eyesloving characterone of monster victims

the narrator

ROBERT WALTON

CHARACTERS

ELIZABETH

orphan girl adopted by Frankestein familyVictor's wifeblonde hair and blue eyesloving characterone of monster victims

WHERE?

WHEN AND WHERE?

WHEN?

between the 18th and the 19th century

Ginevra, SwitzerlandIngolstadt, GermanySwiss mountainsScotlandArtic

"I grew up in Switzerland and becAme obsessed with creating life through scienCe. I created a terrible creature so I abandoned it, but this caused a series of consequences. It killed 4 people so I followed it around the world but..." cit. victor frankestein

THE STORY