The Return Of Frankenstein
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. Created by Victor Frankenstein in Ingolstadt, the monster is a conglomeration of human parts with inhuman strength. He is loving and gentle at the beginning of his life, childlike in his curiosity and experiences, but after several harsh encounters with humans, he becomes bitter. He seeks revenge on his creator for making him so hideous and rendering him permanently lonely because of his ugliness. After finding Frankenstein dead aboard Waltons ship, the monster goes further north with plans to destroy himself and end the suffering that Frankenstein began when he created him.
2. Indirect narrator of the story, Robert Walton tells Victor Frankensteins story through letters to his sister, Margaret Saville. In seeing Waltons raw ambition to explore the North Pole at all costs, Frankenstein is prompted to tell the story of his destruction that a similar ambition brought upon him. After Frankensteins death and just before the ship heads back to England, Walton is also the last to see the monster before he goes north to kill himself.
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Elizabeth felt responsible for Williams murder because she loaned him the locket that was presumed to be the motive for the murder. Her feeling of responsibility was so great that it manifested itself in physical illness. Throughout the story Elizabeth, and even more so Frankenstein, have a sense of responsibility for things that they did not directly cause. Frankenstein felt as if he murdered Justine as well as William because she was executed for a crime the monster committed. Elizabeth was altered by the injustice of Justines death, and Frankenstein felt responsible for that alteration as well. The chain of events that the monster set off with Williams murder began not with the monster, but with Frankensteins desire to create life. Before Frankenstein could marry Elizabeth, he had to complete his obligation to the monster so that he could be completely rid of him and the responsibility for his actions. As a result, Frankenstein postponed the wedding and took a trip to England to work without the danger of being discovered by his family. His obligation to the monster was not only to ensure the monsters happiness, which Frankenstein felt obliged to do as the monsters creator, but also as a way to protect his family from the monsters