After the execution of Justine, Victor Frankenstein returns to Ingolstadt. Shortly after, he falls ill, and his friend Henry shows up just in time to nurse him back to health. In the novel, Henry serves as a foil character to Victor in that he is representative of openness, honesty, and companionship. Contrastingly, Victor represents secrecy throughout the novel, shown by his actions in hiding his creation from everyone. To me, this is a lot like real life regarding friends. A lot of times I feel like people's best friends have conflicting personalities with them, yet their friendship seems to work. Although this is not always the case, I think that it says something about the nature of people that they are closest with people who are not like them. They may possibly just admire their friends as opposites, strive to be like them, or even like them for the break they give themselves from their normal personality.
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