When filling out your character map, remember: He is present only as a shadow – and that is exactly Shelley’s point. Need help with Chapters 9–16 or the Creature’s narrative? Stay tuned for the next answer key.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein opens not with a monster, but with a web of ambitious, isolated, and morally complex human beings. The first eight chapters (including the opening letters) introduce the core characters whose decisions set the tragedy in motion.


















