What strange sight did Walton and his crew see?
Walton then relates a strange event: As they looked out on the enormous ice field, Walton and his crew saw a gigantic man being pulled by a dogsled. The following day they discovered another, smaller man, desperately ill, adrift on a sheet of ice.
What was Robert Walton looking for in Frankenstein?
Walton, instead, wants to be the first to discover a northern passage to the Atlantic through the Arctic. But it is a fool’s mission, and like Victor, he imperils the souls of those who rely on him in the process.
What does Walton think of his crew?
Initially, Walton is saddened and in despair because of his loneliness. On his voyage, he has, as he says “no friend,” no one to be a companion and share in his pursuit. He feels the men of his crew are not scientific in their pursuits and he has no one who really understands him.
When Walton sees the creature in the cabin?
When Walton sees the creature in the cabin with Victor’s body, what is familiar about the scene? Why has the creature come to see Victor? The creature says he at first found virtue appealing and hoped he would find someone to love him. However, his crimes have turned him into the lowest, most degraded of creatures.
Why does Walton believe Victor’s story?
In a letter on August 26, Walton says that he believes Victor’s story and recalls how Victor described himself as the victim of “lofty ambition,” which brought him to despair. Walton laments that he did not know Victor when they could have been friends.
What does Walton call the creature?
Investigating the noise, Walton is startled to find the monster, as hideous as Victor had described, weeping over his dead creator’s body. The monster begins to tell him of all his sufferings. He says that he deeply regrets having become an instrument of evil and that, with his creator dead, he is ready to die.
Why is Walton attracted to the stranger?
Why do you think walton is attracted to the stranger? He was very hospitable and nursed the Stranger back to health. He felt a connection – the stranger is educated, understands his ambition, and is like minded.
Does Walton kill the creature?
Walton does not kill the creature as Victor requested. Victor dies in Walton’s cabin, on Walton’s ship. When the ship’s captain returns later to the coffin in which Victor’s body lies, he find the creature mourning the death of his creator.
How are Victor’s last words to Walton?
Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition These almost final words of Victor repeat the caution or warning that is his motivation for telling Walton his sad story: he wants Walton to understand the importance of not getting caught up in the ambitious desire to play God and make a mark upon the world.
Why doesn’t Frankenstein kill the creature?
The creature doesn’t murder Victor because it wants to make Victor suffer much like it has been forced to suffer. Victor created the monster only to abandon it immediately after it is brought to life.
What is ironic about the creature’s revenge?
What is ironic, or unexpected about the creatures revenge on Frankenstein? The monster killed her. Frankenstein didn’t build the creature a partner so the monster didn’t let Frankenstein have a wife. They both devote themselves to revenge and the destruction on the other.
Is Victor right to refuse to make a companion for the creature?
Frankenstein decides that he has a moral duty to destroy the female companion he is making for the Monster. He realizes that even if the Monster is not innately evil, he can’t be sure the female companion won’t turn out to be evil.