Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Captain Robert Walton
- An explorer and ship's Captain
on an Arctic expedition
- He rescues Victor, who tells him
the narrative of his life and the
creature's narrative.
- In some respects, Walton may be
seen as a double for Victor.
- Like Victor, Walton is obsessed by his quest
- Walton on glory: 'My life might have been passed in ease
and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that
wealth placed in my path' (p.17)
- On his ambition to find the Northwest
Passage: 'you cannot contest the inestimable
benefit which I shall confer on all mankind to
the last generation' (p.16)
- Both Victor and Walton go against their father's thoughts.
- Walton rebels against his father's dying wish for
him not to go to sea.
- Victor rebels against Alphonse Frankenstein's
dismissal of his readings in alchemy.
- Each son is pursuing the forbidden.
- Walton must rely on his
crew to fulfil is ambitions.
- When his crew insist on returning
home, Walton is saved from
becoming like Victor and
destroying all through his 'mad
schemes' (p.215)
- Not that Walton likes being 'saved'. He is bitter until the
end about what he sees as his crew's 'cowardice and
indecision' (p.218)
- Walton on Victor: 'What a
glorious monster must he
have been in the days of his
prosperity, when he is thus
noble and godlike in ruin!'
(p.214)