What does Walton do after Victor dies? What does Walton do after Victor dies? He
continues toward the North Pole
.
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 is Walton attempting to locate?
Frankenstein is an epistolary novel, framed by three levels of narrative. Adventurer Captain Walton opens the novel with his journey to the North Pole in search of fame through scientific prowess. Walton's crew rescues scientist Victor Frankenstein, who has been attempting to locate
the escaped Being of his creation
.
What responsibility does Walton have toward his crew?
Walton decides to abandon his voyage because he feels responsible for
the safety of his crew
. This decision points to the most important difference between him and Frankenstein.
Does Victor blame himself what is Walton's response to Victor's death?
What is Walton's response to Victor's death?
No, Victor doesn't blame himself
. Walton is very sad about Victor's death, he cries. Walton really wants to turn the ship around and give up.
How does Walton respond to the Creature?
The creature will take his own life by burning himself
. He says that no matter how wretched Victor may have felt and how much he suffered, none of it would equal the suffering of the creature. He cannot find acceptance from his creator, so he seeks comfort in death.
It is at this time when Robert Walton finds Victor, with
his dying dog team dogs
floating on an ice flow in the Arctic Ocean. Victor encourages Robert to continue the fight to destroy the monster if he does not.
Unlike the monster and Victor, who never bother to check with a friend to see if they sound totally crazy, Walton knows that he needs to run his ideas by someone else. And so
Walton survives the novel
.
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. The men on the ship ask to turn around.
Saville in England. 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
.
At the trial,
Kirwin
offers a spirited defense of Victor and manages to secure Victor's release when the court learns of Victor's residence on the Orkney Islands. The time of the murder and Victor's presence in his lab in the Orkney's proves that he did not commit the crime. Alphonse takes Victor home.
What does Victor do with the remains of the female creature? Victor
takes the remains out to sea and throws them overboard with stones to weigh them down
.
His final letter to his sister recounts Frankenstein's death and his dying advice to Walton to
forego ambition and seek tranquility
instead.
While Walton wants to learn about what is already there (the North Pole), Victor wants to create something entirely new by figuring out how to control and create life. Walton believes that his discovery will benefit mankind, while Victor becomes obsessed with
learning how to create life
.
At the end of the novel,
Victor dies on Robert Walton's ship in the Arctic Circle
. The boat captain finds his body and the monster who mourns Victor's death in the room. The Creature disappears from the boat to kill himself. Victor and the monster die in the end.
What request does Frankenstein make of Robert Walton? Frankenstein knows his strength is failing. He asks Robert Walton to
destroy the creature if he ever has the opportunity
.
When his ship gets trapped by ice, Walton is confronted with a choice:
go ahead with his expedition, risking his own life and those of his crewmen, or return home and abandon his dreams of glory
.
Victor asks Walton to
take over the search for the creature
if he dies.
What happens to Victor after he survives the storm and makes it to land? –
He is accused of murder
.
It is at this time when Robert Walton finds Victor, with
his dying dog team dogs
floating on an ice flow in the Arctic Ocean. Victor encourages Robert to continue the fight to destroy the monster if he does not.
