My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation." Frankenstein has two younger brothers – William, the youngest, and Ernest, the middle child. He describes his ancestry thus: "I am by birth a Genevese and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. He was the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, who died of scarlet fever when Victor was 17. Victor Frankenstein was born in Naples, Italy (according to the 1831 edition of Shelley's novel) with his Swiss family.
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One of the characters of François-Félix Nogaret 's novella Le Miroir des événements actuels ou la Belle au plus offrant, published in 1790, is an inventor named "Wak-wik-vauk-an-son-frankésteïn", then abridged as "Frankésteïn", but there is no proof Shelley had read it. The question of Frankenstein's responsibility to the creature – in some ways like that of a parent to a child – is one of the main themes of the book. On 22 February 1815, Mary Shelley delivered a baby two months premature the child died two weeks later. Percy Shelley's sister and Frankenstein's adopted sister were both named Elizabeth.
As stated in the novel, Frankenstein's family is one of the most distinguished of the Genevese republic and his ancestors were counselors and syndics.
Percy Shelley was the first-born son of a wealthy, politically connected country squire, and a descendant of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring, and Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel. There is speculation that Percy was one of Mary Shelley's models for Victor Frankenstein while a student at Eton College, he had "experimented with electricity and magnetism as well as with gunpowder and numerous chemical reactions", and his rooms at the University of Oxford were filled with scientific equipment. Victor was a pen name of Percy Shelley's, as in the collection of poetry he wrote with his sister Elizabeth, Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire. Percy Shelley, Mary's husband, served as a significant influence for the character. Certainly, the author and people in her environment were aware of the experiment on electricity and dead tissues by Luigi Galvani and his nephew Antonio Aldini and the work of Alessandro Volta at the University of Pavia. Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by 17th-century alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel. He is first introduced in the novel when he is seeking to catch the monster near the North Pole and is saved from near death by Robert Walton and his crew. Victor later regrets meddling with nature through his creation, as he inadvertently endangers his own life and the lives of his family and friends when the creature seeks revenge against him. He is a Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things, 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 Frankenstein is a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. William Frankenstein (youngest brother).Frankenstein, Heinrich "Henry" von Frankenstein (1931 film), Mad scientist Victor Frankenstein recoiling from his creationĭr.
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