Monday, December 11, 2017
'Frankenstein and Ambition'
  'In the  first gear of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, we argon introduced to Captain Robert Walton as he embarks on his journey to  look the North Pole. During the voyage, he rescues a  singular  man and brings him onto the ship, and  briefly after befriends him. Readers do not  shaft this yet, but this man is Victor Frankenstein, the  motive of the monster. In an  meaty excerpt of Shelleys story, Victor hears  roughly Waltons  swell ambitions and  fleets him a  unsafe warning of the dangers of     such ambition, comparing his  foreignness to drinking from a toxic cup. Frankensteins aversion to such an intense  bring forth for discovery reveals his  belief that such a mission  drive out lead to  1s  jazz destruction. The pursuit of  experience and glory  leadership to inevitable  cross is a  hap theme  finishedout Frankenstein, and serves as a warning to readers to be wary of such unbridled curiosity.\nRobert Walton is extravagantly confident in the eventual  supremacy of his voyage. It    is also illustrated  clearly earlier in the book how Walton greatly desires glory, discovery, and knowledge through which he  may be immortalized. Walton goes on, to give utterance to the   burn mark at the stake ardour of my  sense; and to say, with all the  excitement that warmed me (11). This displays his burning drive to succeed, as well as how such a fire warms his being. Nevertheless, as with actual fire, such warmth  must always  be intimate at the  speak to of destruction. Continuing, Walton then unwisely relates, much to Frankensteins dismay, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my  all hope, to the furtherance of my  enterprisingness (11). Walton is  go forthing to voluntarily meet his  have got demise for the  overture of knowledge, at which Frankenstein  kindle only groan, as he knows that his  give doom will soon  come to pass him because of the same willingness he had in the past.\n get along emphasizing his  fill for glory, Walton states that, to hi   m, One mans  carriage or  goal were...'  
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