Moreover, Frankenstein portrays two characters on a quest for perfection. At the beginning of the book Walton is trying to perfect navigation and attain a goal that is unnatural. He tries to map the North Pole, a daunting task, and achieve something that has not been documented in human history. However at the end, he is unsuccessful and returns home with dead and weary sailors. Similarly, many Romantic authors believed that a unnatural task will lead to a miserable life if not demise. In the case of Victor Frankenstein, he is not satisfied being a meaningless human being and wishes to assume the role of a creator by creating a new form of life. Victor first attends the University to study the arts, philosophy and most importantly science,
