Walton's Letters Analysis

By including the point of view of Victor Frankenstein and also the letters from Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville, I think it tells where Victor Frankenstein came from and how he was made into the person that he was. She also gave the audience a look into who the characters were and what kind of a person they were. In the first letter he tells his sister what he needs to do before the departure and a reason why he needs to accomplish something amazing like discovering a northern passage to the pacific or just finding new territory. In the second letter is shows that he feels lonely and isolated, and different from his shipmates and too uneducated to find a someone with who can hear about his dreams. Mary wrote these letters to have some entertainment and having a twist at the end. She wanted to introduce Robert Walton and how he shows similarities to Frankenstein's monster.

The second letter is explaining how he does not feel like he belongs and there is no one who he can talk with and no one he can relate to. He feels sad and out of the ordinary just as the monster in the main plot would be. Frankenstein’s …show more content…
The stranger tells Walton, “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.” As in the letters Walton was obsessed to know things that no one else knew and know nature’s secrets. But little did he know that knowing these things would change his life forever. In the novel it shows the monster wanting to know everything about him and as the novel goes on it shows the consequences of knowing these things. It shows the consequences of the monster of knowing too much about himself and why he was made and after every looking under each stone he wants to always go deeper and deeper to find the answers he wanted to know. There was always another question after every answer he found