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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "frankenstein",
  "title": "Frankenstein",
  "author": "Mary Shelley",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Robert Walton",
      "aliases": [
        "R. Walton",
        "R.W.",
        "Captain Walton"
      ],
      "description": "An English sea captain and explorer writing to his sister, Margaret Saville. He rescues Victor Frankenstein from Arctic ice and records Victor’s account."
    },
    {
      "name": "Margaret Saville",
      "aliases": [
        "Margaret",
        "Mrs. Saville"
      ],
      "description": "Robert Walton’s sister in England, to whom he writes about his voyage and Victor’s story. She has a husband and children."
    },
    {
      "name": "Walton’s lieutenant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An English officer serving under Walton, described as courageous and ambitious for advancement."
    },
    {
      "name": "Walton’s master",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The gentle, courageous master of Walton’s ship. He gave his farm and prize money to help the woman he loved marry her preferred suitor."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Russian lady",
      "aliases": [
        "Walton’s master’s former mistress"
      ],
      "description": "A young Russian woman loved by Walton’s master; she loved another man, whom the master helped her marry."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Russian lady’s lover",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The poor man loved by the Russian lady, whom Walton’s master helped her marry."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Russian lady’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The father who initially refused his daughter’s marriage to the man she loved."
    },
    {
      "name": "the first sledge traveller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A gigantic human-shaped figure seen by Walton’s crew crossing Arctic ice in a dog-drawn sledge; Victor pursues him as a dæmon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Victor Frankenstein",
      "aliases": [
        "the stranger",
        "Frankenstein"
      ],
      "description": "A Genevan scientist who created a living being and recounts his history to Walton. His creature kills Henry Clerval, Elizabeth, and others; Victor pursues it until his death aboard Walton’s ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "the surviving dog",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The sole dog alive when Victor’s icebound sledge drifts to Walton’s ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Victor’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Alphonse Frankenstein"
      ],
      "description": "A respected Genevan public servant, husband of Caroline, and father of Victor. He dies after Elizabeth’s murder and the accumulated family tragedies."
    },
    {
      "name": "Beaufort",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A formerly prosperous merchant and close friend of Victor’s father. He fell into poverty and died in Lucerne, leaving Caroline an orphan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caroline Beaufort",
      "aliases": [
        "Caroline"
      ],
      "description": "Beaufort’s daughter, who cared for him in poverty before Victor’s father married her. She is Victor’s mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "the relation who sheltered Caroline",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A relative in Geneva under whose protection Victor’s father placed Caroline after Beaufort’s death."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elizabeth Lavenza",
      "aliases": [
        "Elizabeth"
      ],
      "description": "The orphaned daughter of a Milanese nobleman and a German woman, adopted into Victor’s family. She marries Victor and is murdered by his creature on their wedding night."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Milanese nobleman",
      "aliases": [
        "Elizabeth’s father"
      ],
      "description": "Elizabeth’s father, an Italian patriot whose property was confiscated; whether he died or remained imprisoned in Austria was unknown."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elizabeth’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A German woman who died giving birth to Elizabeth."
    },
    {
      "name": "the peasant foster mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Elizabeth’s foster mother"
      ],
      "description": "A poor peasant woman who helped raise Elizabeth and told Caroline about the child’s origins."
    },
    {
      "name": "the peasant foster father",
      "aliases": [
        "Elizabeth’s foster father"
      ],
      "description": "A poor peasant who helped raise Elizabeth before Caroline adopted her."
    },
    {
      "name": "the village priest",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The priest consulted by Elizabeth’s peasant foster parents before they let Caroline take the child."
    },
    {
      "name": "Victor’s younger brother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Victor’s second brother, born seven years after him; he is not named in the passage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry Clerval",
      "aliases": [
        "Clerval"
      ],
      "description": "Victor’s closest friend and the son of a Geneva merchant. The creature murders him, and Victor finds his body in Ireland."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry Clerval’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A narrow-minded Geneva trader who refused to let Henry accompany Victor to university or pursue a liberal education."
    },
    {
      "name": "Victor’s unnamed younger siblings",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The younger children Caroline asked Elizabeth to care for on her deathbed; they are not identified individually."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cornelius Agrippa",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author whose works on alchemy and natural philosophy Victor reads eagerly as a boy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Paracelsus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author whose works Victor studies alongside Agrippa’s, drawn to their alchemical ideas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Albertus Magnus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author whose works Victor studies as a boy and whom Professor Krempe dismisses as outdated."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Isaac Newton",
      "aliases": [
        "Newton"
      ],
      "description": "A natural philosopher Victor invokes through a comparison of himself to a child gathering shells beside an ocean of truth."
    },
    {
      "name": "the natural philosopher at Belrive",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man of great research in natural philosophy who explains electricity and galvanism to Victor after lightning destroys an oak."
    },
    {
      "name": "M. Krempe",
      "aliases": [
        "Professor Krempe"
      ],
      "description": "A professor of natural philosophy at Ingolstadt who criticizes Victor’s early alchemical studies and directs him toward modern science."
    },
    {
      "name": "M. Waldman",
      "aliases": [
        "Professor Waldman"
      ],
      "description": "A benevolent chemistry professor at Ingolstadt who encourages Victor’s scientific studies and becomes his friend."
    },
    {
      "name": "Homer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poet whom Walton mentions among the celebrated names he once hoped to join through his own poetry."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Shakespeare",
      "aliases": [
        "Shakespeare"
      ],
      "description": "A poet whom Walton mentions among the celebrated names he once hoped to join through his own poetry."
    },
    {
      "name": "Victor’s creature",
      "aliases": [
        "the creature",
        "the monster",
        "the dæmon",
        "the wretch"
      ],
      "description": "The living being Victor creates from assembled body parts. Rejected by humanity, he murders William, Justine, Henry, and Elizabeth, then leads Victor on a pursuit across the world. After Victor’s death, he declares he will end his life on a funeral pyre in the far north."
    },
    {
      "name": "the porter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The porter who opens the gates of the court where Victor took refuge after fleeing his creature."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ernest Frankenstein",
      "aliases": [
        "Ernest"
      ],
      "description": "Victor’s younger brother, sixteen in Elizabeth’s letter. He was with William before William disappeared and later tells Victor that Justine has been accused."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Frankenstein",
      "aliases": [
        "William"
      ],
      "description": "Victor’s youngest brother, a child beloved by the family. The creature murders him and frames Justine by planting Caroline’s portrait on her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justine Moritz",
      "aliases": [
        "Justine"
      ],
      "description": "A kind young woman raised in the Frankenstein household and beloved by Elizabeth. Wrongly convicted of William’s murder, she confesses under pressure from her confessor and is executed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Madame Moritz",
      "aliases": [
        "Justine’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "A widow who treated Justine harshly, later regretted it, and died after declining in health."
    },
    {
      "name": "M. Moritz",
      "aliases": [
        "Justine’s father"
      ],
      "description": "Justine’s father, who favored her; he died before her mother called her home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justine’s siblings",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Justine’s brothers and sister, who died one by one before their mother; they are not individually named."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justine’s aunt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The aunt whose home Justine visited on the evening William disappeared."
    },
    {
      "name": "the market-woman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman who encountered Justine near where William’s body was later found and testified that she seemed confused when questioned."
    },
    {
      "name": "the man who questioned Justine",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unidentified man who asked Justine whether she had seen William as she returned from her aunt’s home."
    },
    {
      "name": "the servant who found the miniature",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Frankenstein household servant who found Caroline’s miniature in Justine’s clothing after William’s murder."
    },
    {
      "name": "the servant who reported the miniature",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A second servant who was shown the miniature and reported it to a magistrate."
    },
    {
      "name": "the magistrate",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The magistrate to whom a servant reported finding Caroline’s miniature in Justine’s clothing, leading to Justine’s arrest."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justine’s confessor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Catholic clergyman who pressured Justine to confess to William’s murder by threatening excommunication and damnation."
    },
    {
      "name": "the advocate against Justine",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed advocate who presented the case against Justine at her trial."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justine’s judges",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The judges who convict Justine despite Elizabeth’s plea and testimony from people who knew her."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A schoolmaster invoked by Henry Clerval in a joke about his father’s former belief that Greek was unnecessary."
    },
    {
      "name": "De Lacey",
      "aliases": [
        "the old man",
        "the blind old man",
        "the old father"
      ],
      "description": "A blind, elderly Frenchman of good family, living in poverty and exile in a German cottage with Felix and Agatha. He responds kindly to the creature’s story, but his family flees after discovering it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Felix",
      "aliases": [
        "the youth",
        "the young man",
        "brother",
        "son"
      ],
      "description": "De Lacey’s son and Agatha’s brother. His efforts to free Safie’s father led to his family’s imprisonment and exile; he loves Safie and drives the creature from the cottage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Agatha",
      "aliases": [
        "the girl",
        "the young woman",
        "sister"
      ],
      "description": "De Lacey’s gentle daughter and Felix’s sister. She helps care for her father and faints when the creature reveals himself."
    },
    {
      "name": "Safie",
      "aliases": [
        "the Arabian",
        "the stranger",
        "the lovely Arabian"
      ],
      "description": "The daughter of a Turkish merchant and a Christian Arab woman. She loves Felix, learns the cottagers’ language, and chooses to join him in Germany."
    },
    {
      "name": "Safie’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the Turk",
        "the Turkish merchant",
        "the merchant"
      ],
      "description": "A Turkish merchant imprisoned and condemned to death in Paris, whom Felix helps escape. He deceives Felix, opposes his daughter’s marriage to a Christian, and leaves for Constantinople."
    },
    {
      "name": "Safie’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "the Christian Arab"
      ],
      "description": "A Christian Arab woman enslaved by the Turks and married to Safie’s father. She taught Safie her religion and encouraged her intellectual independence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Safie’s father’s old servant",
      "aliases": [
        "the old man, a servant of her father"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant of Safie’s father who understood French and helped Safie write letters to Felix."
    },
    {
      "name": "Safie’s attendant",
      "aliases": [
        "the Italian"
      ],
      "description": "A native of Leghorn who accompanied Safie to Germany and understood Turkish; she fell ill and died near the De Lacey cottage."
    },
    {
      "name": "the woman who housed Safie",
      "aliases": [
        "the woman of the house"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who cared for Safie’s attendant and arranged for Safie to reach Felix’s cottage after the attendant died."
    },
    {
      "name": "the shepherd",
      "aliases": [
        "the old man in the hut"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly man whose hut the creature enters while seeking shelter. He flees in fright, leaving breakfast behind."
    },
    {
      "name": "the countryman guide",
      "aliases": [
        "the guide"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed guide who accompanies Safie on horseback to the De Lacey cottage."
    },
    {
      "name": "the first village’s attackers",
      "aliases": [
        "the villagers"
      ],
      "description": "Villagers who flee or attack the creature when it enters their village, driving it into hiding."
    },
    {
      "name": "the first village’s children and woman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The children shriek and a woman faints when the creature enters a cottage in the village."
    },
    {
      "name": "the beggars who left the fire",
      "aliases": [
        "the wandering beggars"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed travellers whose abandoned fire teaches the creature to use warmth and cook food."
    },
    {
      "name": "the neighbouring farmer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed farmer for whom Felix sometimes works, as the creature infers from Felix’s absences."
    },
    {
      "name": "the servants of the De Lacey household",
      "aliases": [
        "the servants"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed servants who help Felix and Agatha with their work after Safie’s arrival."
    },
    {
      "name": "the woman who visited the shepherd’s hut",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman in the first village cottage who faints when she sees the creature."
    },
    {
      "name": "the children in the first village cottage",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The children who shriek when the creature enters their home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Adam",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The first man in Paradise Lost, whom the creature compares with himself as a being without companions and cared for by his maker."
    },
    {
      "name": "Satan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The fallen angel in Paradise Lost, whom the creature sees as a fitting emblem of his lonely, rejected condition."
    },
    {
      "name": "Eve",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The woman in Paradise Lost, whom the creature imagines as a companion who might soothe his sorrows."
    },
    {
      "name": "Werter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The hero of The Sorrows of Werter, whose feelings and death deeply affect the creature."
    },
    {
      "name": "Numa",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient lawgiver whose life in Plutarch’s Lives the creature admires."
    },
    {
      "name": "Solon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient lawgiver whose life in Plutarch’s Lives the creature admires."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lycurgus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient lawgiver whose life in Plutarch’s Lives the creature admires."
    },
    {
      "name": "Romulus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A founder of an ancient republic described in Plutarch’s Lives; the creature prefers peaceful lawgivers to him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Theseus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A founder of an ancient republic described in Plutarch’s Lives; the creature prefers peaceful lawgivers to him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Volney",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The author of Ruins of Empires, the book Felix uses to teach Safie."
    },
    {
      "name": "the girl rescued from the river",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young girl whom the creature saves from drowning; an armed rustic then takes her and shoots him."
    },
    {
      "name": "the rustic who shot the creature",
      "aliases": [
        "the armed rustic"
      ],
      "description": "An unidentified man who takes the unconscious girl from the creature after it rescues her, then shoots and wounds it."
    },
    {
      "name": "the beautiful child",
      "aliases": [
        "the boy",
        "M. Frankenstein"
      ],
      "description": "A young boy identified by the creature as M. Frankenstein’s son. The creature seizes and kills him after learning his family name; he is William Frankenstein."
    },
    {
      "name": "the woman in the barn",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman asleep in a barn near the child’s murder. The creature plants Caroline’s portrait in her clothing, framing her."
    },
    {
      "name": "the half-finished female creature",
      "aliases": [
        "the unfinished companion"
      ],
      "description": "The female being Victor begins creating as the creature’s companion. Victor tears apart her unfinished remains and casts them into the sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "the English philosopher",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed English philosopher whose discoveries Victor considers important to creating the proposed female companion."
    },
    {
      "name": "the person from Scotland",
      "aliases": [
        "the Scottish friend"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed former visitor to Geneva who writes from Scotland, invites Victor and Clerval north to Perth, and lives there."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Orkney islanders",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The five unnamed inhabitants of the remote Orkney island where Victor rents a hut to work on the female creature."
    },
    {
      "name": "the fishing-boat messenger",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the fishermen"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed fisherman who brings Victor letters from Geneva and Clerval while Victor is on the Orkney island."
    },
    {
      "name": "the fishermen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed fishermen whose boat voices Victor hears and who later bring him letters while he is adrift."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles I",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The king whose forces assembled at Oxford during the English Civil War; Victor and Clerval recall his connection to the city."
    },
    {
      "name": "Falkland",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A companion of Charles I, described by Victor as amiable and remembered in connection with Oxford."
    },
    {
      "name": "Goring",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A companion of Charles I, described by Victor as insolent and remembered in connection with Oxford."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hampden",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A patriot whose tomb Victor and Clerval visit at Oxford; he fell in a nearby field."
    },
    {
      "name": "the priest and his mistress",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed priest and his mistress, said in Clerval’s account to have been overwhelmed by an avalanche in the Swiss mountains."
    },
    {
      "name": "the first victim of the creature’s revenge",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The young child the creature kills after learning he is M. Frankenstein’s son; this is William Frankenstein."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Irish man who confronts Victor",
      "aliases": [
        "the hoarse-voiced man"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man in the Irish town who tells Victor that the Irish hate villains and directs him toward the authorities after a murder."
    },
    {
      "name": "the man who escorts Victor to Mr. Kirwin",
      "aliases": [
        "Victor’s conductor"
      ],
      "description": "An ill-looking, unnamed man who tells Victor to account for himself to Mr. Kirwin and escorts him there."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Kirwin",
      "aliases": [
        "the Irish magistrate"
      ],
      "description": "A benevolent Irish magistrate who investigates Henry Clerval’s murder, arranges Victor’s care and defence, and informs Victor’s father. He understands Victor’s ravings because Victor speaks his native language."
    },
    {
      "name": "the fisherman who finds Henry’s body",
      "aliases": [
        "the first fishing witness"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed fisherman who testifies that he found Henry Clerval’s body on the shore with marks of strangulation."
    },
    {
      "name": "the fisherman’s son",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The son of the fisherman who found Henry’s body; he confirms his father’s account."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daniel Nugent",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The fisherman’s brother-in-law, who testifies that he saw a one-man boat like Victor’s near the shore before Henry’s body was found."
    },
    {
      "name": "the woman who saw the boat leave",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman living near the beach who testifies that she saw a one-man boat push off from where Henry’s body was later found."
    },
    {
      "name": "the woman whose cottage received Henry’s body",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman whose cottage the fishermen carried Henry’s body into while trying to revive him."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Irish hired nurse",
      "aliases": [
        "the old woman in the prison"
      ],
      "description": "An indifferent woman hired to nurse Victor in prison; she is the wife of one of the turnkeys."
    },
    {
      "name": "the turnkey who is the nurse’s husband",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The prison turnkey married to Victor’s hired nurse."
    },
    {
      "name": "the physician who treats Victor in prison",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed physician who prescribes medicine for Victor during his prison illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "the Geneva criminal judge",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed judge whom Victor approaches after his release, asking him to pursue the creature. The judge doubts the creature can be captured."
    },
    {
      "name": "the people at the inn",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed people at the inn who gather in terror after Elizabeth is found murdered."
    },
    {
      "name": "the women who mourn Elizabeth",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed women who weep around Elizabeth’s body at the inn."
    }
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