I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans. How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother! Not only does Walton wish for a companion but one who has certain characteristics - ' gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind '.
He would want this person to agree or make minor adjustments to his plans but not, significantly, to stop him from pursuing his course. Essentially, Walton is looking for another version of himself - just as the Monster seeks a similar mate. By this point in the novel, Victor has assumed the very inhumanity of which he accuses the monster.
Just as the monster earlier haunts Victor, seeking revenge on him for having destroyed any possibility of a mate for him, Victor now experiences an obsessive need to exact revenge on the monster for murdering his loved ones. Like the monster, he finds himself utterly alone in the world, with nothing but hatred of his nemesis to sustain him.
The final section of the novel, in which Walton continues the story, completes the framing narrative. The technique of framing narratives within narratives not only allows the reader to hear the voices of all of the main characters, but also provides multiple views of the central characters.
Walton sees Frankenstein as a noble, tragic figure; Frankenstein sees himself as an overly proud and overly ambitious victim of fate; the monster sees Frankenstein as a reckless creator, too self-centered to care for his creation.
Ace your assignments with our guide to Frankenstein! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why does Frankenstein create the Monster? Why does the Monster want revenge? How does the Monster learn to speak and read? Why does Walton turn the ship around? Why is Walton trying to reach the North Pole? Walton's incapacity 'to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation' is alarmingly similar to Frankenstein's unwillingness to heed the warnings of both his friend Clerval and the woman he loves, Elizabeth, to temper his scientific zeal.
His determination to acquire knowledge, whatever the cost and wherever it may lead, has already set him on the same fateful quest. It is wholly fitting, therefore, that Walton's only-justbeginning journey should be interrupted by Frankenstein's never-ending pursuit - the pursuit no longer of knowledge, but of its inescapable and poisoned fruit. The ice surrounding Walton's ship, threatening it with Use this link to get back to this page. Location and the journey in Frankenstein.
Author: Andrew Green. Date: Nov. From: The English Review Vol. Publisher: Philip Allan Updates. Document Type: Article. Length: 1, words.
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