Walton Flashcards
Who is Walton to Victor?
His doppleganger in the novel
1) “I begin to love him as a __”
- technique? context?
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
2) “cold northern play upon my __”
- disregard of what? shows him as being what?
2) cheek
- the power of nature, hubristic
3) “I shall __ no albatross”
- context? - symbolic of what? technique? highlights?
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