Why do you think Robert Walton chooses to write his first letter to his sister?
Walton writes to his sister expressing his desire for a friend
.
Why does Walton write letters to his sister?
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein opens with four letters Robert Walton writes to his sister Margaret Saville. The reasoning behind the letters is three-fold:
to let his sister know of his safety, his intent, and of the story he comes to hear from Victor
.
Where is Walton when he wrote his first letter to his sister?
If so, Robert Walton is writing the letter to his sister from
Saint Petersburg, Russia
. He is there in St. Petersburg because he is an explorer. He has gone up there because he is planning a big expedition.
What is Robert Walton writing about in his letters?
Robert Walton is writing to his sister, Mrs. Margaret Saville, in England. He has been away at sea for six years and by his descriptions in his letter, he is
an ambitious man who might be gone a great deal longer
. … Walton is writing to his sister.
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.
What does Walton hope to do on his journey?
What does Robert Walton hope to accomplish on his voyage? Robert Walton hopes
to discover new lands and to understand the North Pole
. How did Walton prepare himself for the expedition? Walton prepares himself by voluntarily enduring cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep.
What does R Walton long for?
Walton longs
for a friend
. Victor appears and they bring him on board and care for him. Walton listens to Victor's stories about his life.
Why does the man agree to tell Walton his story?
Why does the man agree to tell his story? The man agrees to tell his story
because he notices that Walton is seeking knowledge as Victor himself once did
. Victor hopes that Walton's seeking of knowledge will not lead to disaster as it did for Victor.
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out
thus. But I must finish.
What is Walton looking for?
Walton is on an expedition to look for
a passage through the Arctic Ocean to the North Pacific Ocean via the seas of the North Pole
. … Soon, he will travel to Archangel (now Ankhangelsk), Russia to finalize his plans and hire a ship. He tells his sister that if he succeeds he will not return in months or years.
Who does Walton write to?
Robert Walton is a polar explorer who meets Victor Frankenstein in the Arctic. It is to Walton that Victor tells his story and he, in turn, writes the narrative down in a series of letters to
his sister, Margaret Saville
, back in England.
What does Walton promise his sister in letter3?
He tells his sister
goodbye and tells of how he will succeed
. Again, Walton tells of Romantic sentiments: how the stars, or nature, will witness his success and how he can keep going over the “untamed and yet obedient” regions of the North Pole.
What are Frankenstein's last words?
I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames
. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will surely think thus. Farewell.”
What does Victor say to Walton before he died?
When Victor realizes that he is going to die, he summons Walton to his bed and makes several significant points in his final speech. He tells Walton: 1.
That he has let go of his feelings of vengeance toward the creature but he still believes that the creature needs to die so that he cannot harm anyone else.
What are Frankenstein's last words to Walton before he dies?
With his final words, Frankenstein even takes back his earlier warning about the dangers of too much ambition:
“Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.”
Rather than learning from his mistakes, Frankenstein compounds one mistake after another, leading to his death.
What was the one thing Walton wanted most that he has never been able to satisfy?
“But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which
I now feel as a most severe evil
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