Victor And Robert Walton In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

People are always found to be in some category of conflict that prevents them from achieving their goals. During the course of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is often found in this situation. Victor is found to have many similar goals to Robert Walton in the novel throughout their letters to each other through loneliness, being consumed by their goals, and their failure to achieve their goals. This relationship is portrayed through the letters they exchange among one another. Their letters to one another, in a way, control their actions due to their commonness with each other. Victor’s actions are taken due to his vision of a failure of a creation of a monster through his doubts and morality of his actions

He has always looked up to of what he thinks to be the perfect human when he cannot bring himself to his standards of his description of perfection. Victor has been seen describing his thoughts and his beliefs on what a perfect human is. He declares what he perceives as the perfect human being when he says, “A human being is perfection ought always preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility” (Shelley 34). Mary Shelley creates this personality for Victor and makes him as someone who can never meet those standards and because of it he ultimately suffers and blames himself for being frowned upon from

They have always had direct connections where Victor is usually following precisely behind Robert with whatever happens to him. In one of the letters that Victor receives from Robert Walton, Robert wrote, “To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate” (Shelley 21). Victor and Robert have become lonely due to their thoughts of denial of the town against Victor due to his creation that is seen as harmful and dangerous to society. Although this is very far from the truth, Victor sees himself as a failure when he is in fact not. He had chosen this lifestyle of isolation and solitude for which, “The reader can understand from the novel that Victor has himself chosen this isolation from people. No one has forced him to a life in solitude”(Brӓnnstrӧm 9) can relate