The novel is presented as an epistolary nested narrative, following the first-person accounts of Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the … I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage. Ambition and Fallibility. Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my spirits. He tries to dismiss thoughts of failure and will perhaps return home via a different route, a changed man. Summary Letter 1 Robert Walton, preparing to explore the North Pole, relates the progress of planning for his expedition in a letter dated December 11, 17—, to his sister Margaret Saville, in London.Walton has made it to St. Petersburgh, Russia, and he describes his excitement about being the first to reach the Pole, solve scientific mysteries, and benefit humanity. From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger.
We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice. Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.
Summary. You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man. This circumstance, added to his well-known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him.
These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. In the first letter, dated August 26, 17 — , Walton is now the narrator for the remainder of the story. One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarcely remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.Adieu, my dear Margaret. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. Those are as fixed as fate, and my voyage is only now delayed until the weather shall permit my embarkation. Do you share my madness? I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.But success SHALL crown my endeavours. He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.This is the most favourable period for travelling in Russia. These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven. We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Frankenstein and what it means. But must finish. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. 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. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a Gothic horror novel about a man named Victor Frankenstein who discovers the secret to creating life.
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