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  2. Victor Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Victor 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 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 ...

  3. Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...

  4. Frankenstein's monster - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein's monster, commonly referred to as Frankenstein, [a] is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as its main antagonist.

  5. Frankenstein (1931 film) - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein is a 1931 American gothic pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

  6. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film) - Wikipedia

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    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 science fiction horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh who also stars as Victor Frankenstein, with Robert De Niro portraying Frankenstein's monster (called The Creation in the film), and co-stars Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Richard Briers and Aidan Quinn.

  7. Elizabeth Lavenza - Wikipedia

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    Born in Italy, Elizabeth Lavenza was adopted by Victor's family.In the first edition (1818), she is the daughter of Victor's aunt and her Italian husband. After her mother's death, Elizabeth's father—intending to remarry—writes to Victor's father and asks if he and his wife would like to adopt the child and spare her being raised by a stepmother (as Mary Shelley had unhappily been).

  8. Bride of Frankenstein (character) - Wikipedia

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    In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein is tempted by his monster's proposal to create a female creature so that the monster can have a wife: "'Shall each man,' cried he, 'find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?'" [1] The monster promises that if Victor grants his request, he and his mate will vanish into the wilderness of ...

  9. Glenn Strange - Wikipedia

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    Strange reprised the role of Frankenstein's monster in House of Dracula (1945). Strange played the monster a third time in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); as in his first two Frankenstein films, he shared the spotlight with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man , but this time John Carradine was replaced by Bela Lugosi , in his second ...