Victor Frankenstein is the title character and protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. As a child, Victor turns out to be a very curious boy with a talent for science and interested in alchemy, as he was an avid reader of the works of Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Alberto Magno. These readings make you obsessed with the elixir of life and it is what makes you have an immense desire to create life out of inanimate things.
This desire accompanies him into adulthood, where Victor, after researching and studying for 2 years, manages to create and bring to life a humanoid creature. Victor is immensely proud of his upbringing and immensely happy that he has achieved his ultimate goal, but Victor is terrified of the appearance of his extremely ugly monster. In fear victor runs away and abandons his creation. The monster, saddened by the abandonment, decides to take revenge on Victor by killing his younger brother, Willian.
Victor then becomes embarrassed and sad that he has created something cruel, vengeful and dangerous. he spends the rest of the book trying to find a way to destroy what he has worked so hard to create, and ends up dying with his sadness and regret.
"...clean as a new pin.." (84)
-describes the kitchens in Hispaniola and how clean they are.
"...a lion's nothing along Long John!" (84)
-describes LJS as being fierce.
"...like a fish out of water..." (43)
-describes an awkward situation.
Speaking to fast, losing train of thought, swaying back and fourth
