Frankenstein began and stayed in the form of a letter from explorer Robert Walton to his sister Margaret. His goal lied in the discovery of the North Pole’s location by ship. Robert soon encountered an overboard man. This man introduced himself as scientist Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein recalled how his parents adopted a girl named Elizabeth and raised them for eventual marriage. Frankenstein’s mother died, and he met best friend, Henry Clerval. Frankenstein attended university, where interest in creating life arose. Frankenstein devoted himself thusly, spending two years on it. While successful, the Creation frightened Frankenstein enough that he ran away and into Clerval at an inn. Clerval nursed depressed Frankenstein back to health. A letter from home arrived concerning the trial of Elizabeth’s servant, charged with their little brother William’s murder. Frankenstein raced home. The …show more content…
Walton has solitary feelings when deprived of like minded individuals but shares that way of thinking with the majority of people. Frankenstein feels solitude in the grief and guilt thrust upon him by the Creation’s cowardly crimes. Similarly, the Creation knows utterly solitary circumstances caused by Frankenstein’s fatherly fallacies. No one likes these solitary feelings, but everyone has them in some form or another. Important Quotes “Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished” (Page 57) While very small in size, this passage has profound connotations. Just like an inexperienced forester looking too closely at trees to comprehend the full woods, Frankenstein looked too closely at the individual body parts to notice the greater whole. He only recognized the Creation’s larger structure after it started moving in conjunction with the rest of himself. This shows how Frankenstein managed to accomplish his task. He ignored all the other possible outcomes of his experiment as long as life resulted from