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He is the son of Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, the latter of whom died of scarlet fever when he was young. Victor had two younger brothers — William, the youngest, who was killed by his creation, and Ernest, the middle child, who wants to join the Foreign Service like a "true Genevese". Victor fell in love with his adoptive sister, Elizabeth Lavenza (in the 1818 text)
As a young man, Frankenstein was enamored with alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, and he longed to discover the fabled elixir of life. He loses interest in both these pursuits and in science as a whole after seeing the remains of a tree struck by lightning. However, at the University of Ingolstadt, Frankenstein develops a fondness for chemistry. Unfortunately, he becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life in inanimate matter through artificial means, dropping out of school to pursue this goal for the next two years.
Assembling a humanoid creature perhaps by stitching together pieces of human corpses, perhaps by the use of a chemical, apparatus or a combination of both (he avoids the question three times when asked, though the fact that he noted lightning striking down a tree in his childhood is a prominent clue), Frankenstein successfully brings it to life only to be repulsed and terrified by its monstrous ugliness. He abandons and flees his creation, who disappears and soon embarks upon a journey of vengeance that results in the deaths of several of Frankenstein's family and friends.
Frankenstein pursues the "fiend" or "daemon" (as he calls his creation) to the Arctic with the intent of destroying it; he ultimately fails in his mission, however, and after relating his tale to the captain of a ship of explorers that has picked him up, he dies of pneumonia. His creature, upon discovering the death of its creator, is overcome by sorrow and ends the novel by vowing to commit suicide.