Victoria Frankenstein

Victoria Frankenstein is a fictional character who is portrayed by Helen McCrory . She is the main character of the modern day adaption of Mary Shelly's book, Frankenstein. She is also considered a modern day version of Victor Frankenstein, who was the protagonist of Mary Shelly's book and various films that are also adaptions of the book.

Victoria is a brilliant scientist who works with stem cells. She creates a Monster, when she learns how to control stem cells, desperate to save her dying son, she puts some adds his blood to her creation, leading Victoria to believe the monster is actully her then dead son, William.

Personality
Victoria is portrayed as doing what she does for genuine love for mankind. In the film she is a very emotional person, most likely because of her dying son. Unlike a lot of the other characters in the film, she cares for the UX, and is shown as being a caring person.

Creating the UX
The Universal Xenograft Project, overseen by Professor Andrew Waldman and assisted by Victoria's friend, Ed Gore. In the process of an organ-growing experiment, which was orginally just supposed to be a heart, Victoria inserts William's blood into the procedure, and the stem cells begin to grow at a rapid rate. The insertion of William's blood is unknown until Ed discovers a tooth within the purpose built tank in which the stem cells are cultivating, and Andrew is then alerted. X-rays within the tank show that an organism is growing, and for the intention of scientific advancement, it is allowed to live. However, a lightning strike cuts the power within the building, and the creature, referred to as "the UX", escapes. He wonders the sewers and is seen by a small girl when he is close to the exit of the pipes. The UX later kills the girl when she starts screaming at it. The UX soon returns to the laboratory however, and kills a security guard, Ed and Andrew. The UX is captured by security personnel, and taken to a different laboratory, in which Victoria's husband Henry is seemingly in authority. Victoria attempts to interact and calm the UX, but is mostly unsuccessful. In one of these tests, the UX acts similar to William, which convinces Victoria that it really is William. At night, Victoria attempts to free the UX but initially fails, until Henry arrives by helicopter, and they escape to a nearby beach to consider their position. Soon, a team of armed men arrive and request that they hand over the UX. Henry refuses, and is swiftly shot. The armed men then take Victoria and the UX. In the final scene, Victoria is seemingly trying to educate the UX in an unknown facility, where they are being watched by their captors wondering whether, when It grows to understand, if it will love or hate Victoria for creating it.

Characterization
Victoria is shown as having similarities and differences to Victor Frankenstein, the main character of the novel. They are both portrayed as being abtious and curious scientists. However, while Victor creates the Monster out of curiosity, Victoria does it out of love for humanity and her son. Its also noticeable their names both begin with the letters V,I,C,T,O and R.

Victoria is shown as being a loving mother to the Monster in the film, treating it like a son. This could be considered another opposite personality trait, as Victor abandoned his experiment which became the Monster.

Relationships with other characters
Victoria first fears the UX, but later teaches it to be humane. She then has a mother-son relationship with it.

Henry and Victoria have been divorced, after Henry ran away from her and their son, William. Later in the film the two seem to make things up and Henry describes Victoria and the UX as his family.

Victoria loves her son William. When he dies she watches tapes of him, such as his past birthdays. She later thinks the UX is William.

Other Appearances
In a comic called Super Frankenstein, Frankenstein is a woman and is called Victoria. This is probably a concident. Victoria Frankenstein is described as being more gentle than Victor in this comic, this seems to match Victoria's personality in .

McCrory on Victoria
Upon being asked if re-telling the story of Frankenstein from a woman's point of view was easy, Helen McCrory said: Her motives are very different from Victor’s. While she is no less curious than he was, no less ambitious, her creation is born out of an overriding concern for life and a desire to preserve and protect it, rather than as a result of a man with a God complex stitching body parts together in the cellar.

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