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Frankenstein: Response Questions

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Julia Burky Period One Frankenstein Response Questions (Front) 17 March 2023 Robert Walton is the author of Letter One, he is writing to his sister, Margaret. Robert Walton is in St. Petersburg, Russia which is a port city that he plans to depart from and take part in a quest. Walton desires to search for the Northwest Passage, this displays Walton’s ambition and hunger for what is unknown to him and humankind. Walton’s letters were usually separated by several months and many travels; however, strangeness befell on Walton during his journey when he stumbled upon Victor Frankenstein, who was a scientist that made a creature that he hated. Walton immediately wrote to his sister about his experience with Frankenstein and how he was fascinated …show more content…

Frankenstein is in utter disrepair, his limbs nearly frozen and was surely fatigued and sick. Frankenstein was suffering greatly. Not only physically, but Frankenstein appears to be a somber and melancholy person. Despite Frankenstein’s sullen demeanor, Walton is greatly intrigued by Frankenstein’s story and past. The man tries to dissuade Walton from diverging from common thought and endeavoring into the unknown; however, Walton seems to disregard the man’s harrowing tales- though they do fill Walton with anxiety- he continues on his trek. Walton may not be the most reliable narrator because of his allure towards Frankenstein. In the fourth letter Walton writes to his sister, “My affections for my guest increases everyday. He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree. How can I see so noble of a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief?” (page 24). Walton, who wanted to find the Northwest Passage, reminded me a lot of the Roman orator, Pliny. In his letters, Pliny wrote of an urgency he felt in his work and life to secure himself immortality through his trade. He longed for this enduring fame and recognition so as not to fall into oblivion, Pliny used this fear as a catalyst to insure an endless fame. Perhaps Walton does the same and perceived similar

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