Victor Frankenstein- meet in North Pole, gets on to Walton's ship, was interested in natural philosophy and chemistry and then gets into anatomy and body sciences which causes him to want to find the secret to life, studying at Ingolstadt, crafts a creation with tools and old body parts, Creation grins over him in the night, keeps the Creation a secret at first, Henry comes to Victor's apartment and the Creation is gone, becomes ill and Henry nurses him back to health, leaves Ingolstadt to be back in Geneva with family, receives notice of William's death, feels guilty that his creation is hurting loved ones, goes to the mountains to get a break and one day he runs into the Creation who admits to William's murder, gets asked to make a female monster and declines but eventually gives in, goes to England with Henry to gather information about making a female creation, starts to make a female but then realizes the possible consequences and stops, takes a boat onto the water to get rid of remains of the female creation, wind patterns cause him to float to a shore-town (not his island), while landing he was arrested and accused for murder by Kirwin unknowing of the situation, horrified to see that Henry has been killed by the Creation, tries to convince Kirwin that an unnatural monster killed his best friend, while sick goes to prison for murder and wakes up in prison, Kirwin proves him innocent of the murder, returns to Geneva and marries Elizabeth, married Elizabeth and returned to cottage on night of wedding, while searching for signs of the creation and while looking he hears Elizabeth scream, he goes into their room to find Elizabeth dead on the bed, devotes rest of life to finding and destroying monster, goes on a voyage to track creation and runs into Walton on an iceberg, starts traveling with Walton and one day while on the ship the Creation strangles Victor to death, engaged to Elizabeth