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In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, who is Henry Cleval and why is he important?

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Henry is Victor's best friend who looks after him when he is ill and accompanies him to England. Henry's purpose in the novel is to show what Victor could have been had he not been influenced by ambition and the desire for discovery - in that sense he is Victor's opposite.

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