ISFJ 1w9 Characters
Elizabeth’s MBTI and Enneagram typing in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025), portrayed by Mia Goth, brings warmth, conscience, and moral clarity to Mary Shelley’s gothic world. As an ISFJ 1w9, Elizabeth embodies the compassionate moral center that counters Victor Frankenstein’s cold intellect. Del Toro crafts her as the story’s quiet revolutionary. Through her deep empathy, spiritual conviction, and idealism, Elizabeth becomes both the voice of humanity and its conscience, bridging science and soul. Fans of MBTI personality typing, del Toro’s psychological storytelling, and classic literature will find in Elizabeth one of the director’s most luminous creations, a woman of faith, gentleness, and quiet strength in a world obsessed with power and invention.
Introverted Sensing
If Victor prefers large sweeping ideas, Elizabeth cares more about the details. When he first presents his ideas to her at lunch, she calls him out on them, saying that ideas lead to actions with consequences for others to face. She outlines how ideas about war have now led to thousands dying on the battlefield. In her mind, ideas are nothing without being able to use them. Where Victor cuts up bodies, Elizabeth takes an interest in tiny creatures such as bugs. She purchases and reads books on the subject, captures and studies butterflies, and is genuinely curious about Victor’s workshop and his advancements in medicine and technology. She is highly observant, noting Victor following her in the street and setting a word trap for him inside the confessional. When she comes to the lab for the first time, she explores the space, finds his Creature, and becomes enamored of it, sharing small moments together such as removing her gloves and showing him her hands.
Extraverted Feeling
Elizabeth is all about what is moral, kind, and good, and best for the common people. She turns her comments about the war into a lecture about how it is wrong, and the harm it does on families; how men sit around in important rooms with their ‘ideas’ while other, poorer men go out and fight and die and bleed on the battlefields, depriving wives of their husbands, daughters of their fathers, and mothers of their sons. This is how Fe thinks; about the impact actions have on everyone involved, and by wanting to draw attention to them. Unlike Victor, who drowns in his own feelings, Elizabeth has instant empathy for the Creature and is able to connect to it on an emotional level. She shows it tenderness, tries to teach it the word for hands and her name, and is appalled by his treatment of it. She demands to know why Victor has chained it up in the basement, and refuses to listen to him when he warns her to stay away and that the Creature is dangerous. Later, she reconnects to the Creature in her room, and says that is glad to die in its presence, because she cares for it. Elizabeth doesn’t want to hear Victor’s confession of love on her wedding day, because she points out he has had time enough to say it, and it should have been before she was about to promise herself to another. When Victor followed her to Church, Elizabeth chose to emotional bait him inside the Confessional, by turning her confession into a series of condemning statements about Frankenstein.
Introverted Thinking
Elizabeth spends a great deal of time reading and coming to a deep understanding of the world around her and those in it, from the smallest beetles to the people who populate it. The more time she spends with the Creature, the greater her affection for it, as she slowly learns how its mind works and senses its greater innocence. She balances out Victor’s scientific mind with her own devout Catholicism by assigning meaning to events and incidents; these beliefs ‘make sense’ to her and she holds to them, even if Victor finds them lacking. Low Ti often does this; place meaning into a belief that makes sense to the person using it, even if others find it irrational.
Extraverted Intuition
When discussing the Creature with Victor, Elizabeth says that he has a pure soul and is so far without sin; that he is innocent and sweet and they must care for him, which shows her streak of idealism, her faith in an idea outside of herself (Catholicism), and her wish for a better future for the Creature. As they ride away from the laboratory, she tells her fiancé they must turn around because “I have a bad feeling… he is going to kill [the Creature].” She forms a connection to the Creature based both on her human kindness and a deeper sense of attraction for what he represents to her in a spiritual sense.
The Enneagram 1
Everything is about right and wrong in Elizabeth’s eyes; war is wrong, because it hurts innocent people. Rich people get richer off it, while poorer people suffer and die and their families get destroyed. She does not think what Frankenstein is doing is morally wrong, but she does chastise him for his cruel treatment of his Creation, in which he does not see the value and leaves it chained up for its own protection. That he warns her it is dangerous does not matter, because Elizabeth knows on an instinctive level that the Creature will not hurt her. She objects to Victor calling the Creature an “it” because that removes its personhood. In fact, her connection with the Creature shows her greater idealism. 1s seek for purity in all things, and in it, she finds purity and innocence, two things that appeal to her inner longing for a better world. She also shows an icy fury that lashes out at Victor when he tries to profess his love for her on her wedding day; she strikes him across the face and screams for him to leave her presence at once, as he has nothing to say to her that she wants to hear.
The 9 Wing
Within Elizabeth is a duel nature; the crackle and fire of her intense beliefs and convictions (her 1 core) and a quieter, gentler side that is drawn to the Creature and who communicates with him only on peaceful terms. She is tender with him, moderating all of her movements, enjoying sitting and being with him, or receiving a leaf. She treats him like a child full of wonder and becomes one herself in his presence, mirroring him and making him feel at home in her presence. 1w9s are very idealistic, easily touched by beauty, and yearn to find a way for all the universe to connect within itself, and she seems to do this with the Creature.
The Moral Heart of the Story
Mia Goth is an absolutely perfect choice for Elizabeth; her appearance is exactly what was popular in Victorian times, with the gigantic eyes and rounded features. It also suits the character she is playing; an emotional heart in contrast with Victor’s on-and-off villainy. Del Toro, I’ve noticed, likes to explore the concept of Beauty and the Beast a lot in his stories, and it’s nowhere more apparent than here. There are echoes of The Shape of Water in these characters, even though Elizabeth is far different, a more grounded soul. Even though this story differs from the original novel, it’s so transcendent, so full of grief and alienation, and Del Toro has infused it with his own 4 fix in response to Mary Shelly’s, I think the author would approve.
