Comparison Of Frankenstein And Robert Walton In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley implies that when the pursuit of knowledge is taken beyond nature’s boundaries, nature will get revenge and make one’s life nothing but misery and pain. This occurs time and time again as characters like Frankenstein, who neglected nature as a whole, and then openly defied it by reanimating dead matter, the Monster, who was Frankenstein’s creation, and was unnatural at his core, and Robert Walton, who, blind in the ideas of glory and fame, almost lost his life as well as his own crew’s in the journey to the Arctic, risk their lives in the obsession they have formed. However, when one subsides these obsessions, and puts others, possibly even their health, before the knowledge they seek, they are forgiven, Walton