Percy Shelley, Mary's husband, served as a significant influence for the character. 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. … See more

Mary Shelley's novel presents a Promethean theme of defiance of the gods, in reference to the mythological hero. The title of the novel echoes the call of the French materialist philosopher, La Mettrie (1709-1751), in 1747, in his Homme machine, for … See more

Frankenstein's Promethean dimension covers almost every aspect of the text, whether purely literary, philosophical or moral. The psychological singularity of the characters, especially Victor, exists, but is far from fundamental. Indeed, the very subtitle of the novel … See more

Victor Frankenstein was born in Naples (according to the 1831 edition of Shelley's novel) to a Swiss family. He was the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, who died of See more

While many subsequent film adaptations (notably the 1931 movie Frankenstein and the Hammer Films series starring Peter Cushing) have portrayed Frankenstein as the prototypical " See more

Transgression
The act of transgression exists, but is never qualified as such. The vocabulary used by Victor, who is not Mary Shelley's spokesman, as he … See more

Books
Besides the original novel, the character also appears or is mentioned in other books from pastiches to parodies.
• In the book Frankenstein's Aunt, the Baron's aunt comes to Frankenstein's castle to put it back … See more