... of his previous work. His younger brother William and colleague Henry Clerval were killed by the first specimen (Chapter 8 & 19). Robert Walton, who rescued Victor from death in the arctic, quotes that Victor – upon discovering Walton's intent of his voyage to the North Pole – spoke: "You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that ... ...
... a mutual interest in the "spark of life," with Victor pursuing electricity and Prometheus fire. In addition, Victor, often refers to his creation as clay. On page 33, he quotes, "Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbed among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay." ... ...
... into a bad situation but only recognise it when it cannot be helped. Bibliography Suzanna Storment: Frankenstein: The Man and the Monster http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/frank.comment3.html (both quotes) Mary Shelley: Preface from the novel Frankenstein (or the modern Prometheus)...
... by the Romantic view of pathetic fallacy as she often links the creature's appearance by a storm breaking, and lightening. 'From the proceeding flash' and 'watching the pallid lightenings' all are quotes from just before the creature appears, and the reader begins the link the arrival of a storm, and definitely lightening with the creature's arrival. Similarly the creature is associated with moonlight ... ...
