Walton Flashcards

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1
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Who is Walton to Victor?

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His doppleganger in the novel

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1) “I begin to love him as a __”
- technique? context?

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1) brother
- foreshadowing as Victor who has the same ambitions and mind as Walton will arrive on the ship, enlightenment ego as Walton is idolising Frankenstein so basically himself

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2) “cold northern play upon my __”
- disregard of what? shows him as being what?

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2) cheek
- the power of nature, hubristic

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3) “I shall __ no albatross”
- context? - symbolic of what? technique? highlights?

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3) kill
- ancient mariner which is written by Coleridge and the ancient mariner is punished for killing the albatross - symbolic of going against nature, foreshadowing the foolishness that Walton will do, the hubris of the enlightenment

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