Question

Describe a theme from Letter 3 of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and a different theme from Letter 4 of Frankenstein. How are these themes conveyed in each letter? Provide evidence from the text to support the themes expressed in each letter.

Answer 1

Walton's use of the word "savage" places him alongside the many other characters in Frankenstein who prejudge the monster based on appearance alone prejudice



Walton loves the stranger because he is similar, and therefore offers the promise of an end to isolation. His acceptance of the stranger shows that it is Walton who is truly innocent and full of "sweetness family, society,isolation prejudice, lost innocence



Walton holds tightly on to his innocence. He focuses on Victor's romantic love of nature rather than his warning against an ambition-fueled quest for knowledge ambition and fallibility lost innocence



Victor sees himself as a man of "experience" instructing another, "innocent" man. He clearly has something to say on the subject of ambition ambition and fallibility lost innocence



Shelley portrays Walton as a stubborn innocent fool. He chooses to ignore Victor's warnings and, believing himself to deserve achieving his ambition, trusts "fate" instead. Ambition and fallibility And lost of innocence