Walton - Quotations
English Lit: Edexcel A Level Frankenstein, topic 7.1.1
Quotations About Walton
Walton is an extra-diegetic/framing narrator within the novel. As our first narrator, he prepares the reader for the character of Frankenstein.
Letter II
- "I am practically industrious-painstaking-a workman to execute with perseverance and labour… A belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of man even to the wild sea and on visited regions I’m about to explore."
Letter III
- "The very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolve the will of man?"
Letter III/ Chapter 4
- Walton: "But success shall crown mine endeavours. Wherefore not?" (Letter III)
- Victor: "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me." (Chapter 4)