First we start with Robert Walton who is the captain of a vessel trying to find the North Pole. Unfortunately Walton cannot complete this task for his boat has become trapped in the ice sheet that surrounds the arctic. While trapped in the ice the crew spots a man on his dogsled, a man who seems he is about to perish on th

e ice sheet. The crew takes the traveler aboard. While Frankenstein is recovering from his extreme exposure to the harsh weather, Walton begins to talk to him. The two men start to have a friendship; Walton is a very lonely man and has long desired a friend. Frankenstein is showing the effects of his journey and for a while will not talk about what he is doing alone, traveling the Arctic. He has a story that he has kept secret for a long time. Once Frankenstein becomes more comfortable with Walton, he decides to tell him the tale.

Frankenstein was very interested in natural philosophy and chemistry and basically tried to play God by creating life. He found the secret of activating dead flesh. He thought he was creating something beautiful, "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his feature as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!"(Shelly, 42) Frankenstein thought he was creating beauty but instead created a superhuman monster made up of rotted corpses. What he did was considered unethical and inhuman; and he later ended up being haunted by his own creation. The monster soon escaped and Frankenstein knew that one day he would have to deal with the consequences of what the monster might do. Frankenstein received a letter one day, which informed him of his brother William's murder, and immediately thought that the monster was responsible. Victor even blamed himself because he was the monste

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