Companionship is the closeness or familiarity, a true fellowship among people who for some reason have a connection. “I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.” The quote is from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Robert Walton longs for a friend. The creature wanted a female companion. Henry and Victor needed each other to get through school and life. Everyone needs at least one friend, who will bring his or her balance and love, into their life. To go further in depth, the characters in Frankenstein expressed the need of a companion to feel the need and want in life. The character to introduce the want for a friend is Robert Walton. In his second letter to his sister, Margaret Saville, he wishes for a friend he could bond with. “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.” Robert Walton was pleased to have Victor on board and connect with him. Frankenstein is intelligent and well educated, like Walton, and took Robert’s interest. “How would such a friend repair the faults of …show more content…
When he was just a boy, he met Henry Clerval and they became best friends. “I was indifferent, therefore, to my schoolfellows in general; but I united myself in the bonds of the closest friendship to one among them.” They were friends until the creature killed Henry. Victor also had Elizabeth, his life partner. She lived a short life, due to the fact the creature killed her on the night of Victor and her wedding. “While I admired her understanding and fancy I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favorite animal; and I never saw so much grace both of a person and mind united to so little pretension.” He was in love with her since he saw her and the beauty, both physically and mentally, she