Victor Frankenstein
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Victor Frankenstein, whose character name has sometimes evolved in popular culture to Dr. Frankenstein, is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley's 18
Victor Frankenstein recoiling from his creation
Frontispiece from the 1831 edition.
Félicité de Genlis by Lemoine.
Prometheus by Eduard Müller (1828–1895).
Frankenstein
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from
Victor Frankenstein
…evolved in popular culture to Dr. Frankenstein, is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. He is a young Italian-born Swiss scientist who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things at university, gains an insight into…
Title page of Vol. I, first edition, 1818
Draft of Frankenstein ("It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ...")
An English editorial cartoonist conceives the Irish Fenian movement as akin to Frankenstein's creature, in the wake of the Phoenix Park murders in an 1882 issue of Punch.