Who are the main characters in Frankenstein?

The title character in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818) is Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. Other main characters are Frankenstein’s monster (sometimes called “the creature”), Frankenstein’s friend Henry Clerval, Frankenstein’s betrothed Elizabeth Lavenza, and Robert Walton, a ship’s captain who rescues Frankenstein and records his story and that of the monster in letters to Walton’s sister.