How Does Mary Shelley Present Walton In Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein starts off with Robert Walton writing letters to his sister Margaret about his journey hoping to discover a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. When the ship runs into complications caused by ice blocks Walton and his crew see a large figure and a man in the distance. The man gets aboard the ship and after days of being very ill is introduced as Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein begins to share his story with Walton in hopes that it will help Walton refrain from making similar mistakes. Frankenstein tells Walton about his early childhood and family life. He then goes on to explain how he came to the conclusion of wanting to build a creature. His motivation to create such a thing is because he wants to solve …show more content…
The creation is rejected by the family when he tries to befriend them and is so upset that he goes to Frankenstein with a special request. The creature's request is that he wants a mate. Frankenstein agrees at first but later realizes what a horrible outcome making yet another creature could possibly be. He destroys his progress on the newly developed mate and this enrages the creation. The creation then takes out his fury on innocent human beings and eventually Frankenstein's wife, Elizabeth. Frankenstein wants to put an end to his creation's existence once and for all for causing so many negative situations in his life. Frankenstein then falls very ill and instructs Walton to carry out this plan to kill the creation because he can no longer follow through with it himself. When Walton and the creation cross paths the creation tells Walton he is going off to die. Fate is an important theme in the novel because it constantly resurfaces throughout the entire plot. The novel Frankenstein shows an unlimited amount of evidence about the nature of fate by showing how each small detail happens for a much bigger purpose and leads to the immaculate intertwining of each