# Safie — Frankenstein character guide

> Safie in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** sweet Safie

**First appearance:** 0021-chapter-xiii

## Snapshot

A Turkish merchant's daughter who flees an arranged marriage to join Felix, her arrival bringing both love and danger to the De Lacey cottage.

## Who they are

Safie is beautiful, devout, and quietly determined, raised in a world of luxury that she abandons for the man who rescued her father. Her letters and lessons, overheard by the creature, become his window into language, history, and the possibility of affection. She embodies the novel's recurring theme of exile and divided loyalty, and her presence in the cottage makes the creature's exclusion from it feel both intimate and unbearable.

## Relationships

### [The Creature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/characters/the_creature)

_social_

Safie is Felix's beloved who the Creature observes from afar, but she never directly encounters him.

### [Felix De Lacey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/characters/felix_de_lacey)

_romantic_

Felix and Safie are lovers whose relationship is a model of affection and sacrifice, observed by the Creature.

### [The Creature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/characters/the_creature)

_social_

Safie is Felix's beloved who the Creature observes from afar, but she never directly encounters him.

### [Felix De Lacey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/characters/felix_de_lacey)

_romantic_

Felix and Safie are lovers whose relationship is a model of affection and sacrifice, observed by the Creature.

### [Felix De Lacey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/characters/felix_de_lacey)

_romantic_

Felix and Safie are lovers whose relationship is a model of affection and sacrifice, observed by the Creature.

## In the story

### [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/chapters/chapter-xiii)

Arrives at the cottage; her presence brings joy, and she learns language alongside the Creature, inspiring his own studies.

### [Chapter XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/chapters/chapter-xiv)

Daughter of the Turkish merchant; educated by her Christian mother, she defies her father to reunite with Felix in Germany.

### [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/frankenstein_se/chapters/chapter-xv)

Rushes out of the cottage in horror upon beholding the Creature.

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