Victor-scientist / artists
I am very curious to see how Walton's mindset changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. Walton has this intense desire for fame, by trying to be a poet, and now trying to get to the north pole. He then finds Victor chasing what is assumed to be his creation, and aids him back to health. Victor goes on to tell Walton his tale, because it is evident to see the obsession Walton has that Victor once had. There are a lot of examples in the media about how characters obsessed with meeting some goal eventually ruins them, or produces very bad results in their life. Although there are so many examples of this, the example that immediately came to my mind (probably not a good thing) was an example in the TV show Entourage.
Vince was obsessed with making the movie "Medellin". No studio will make the movie so he buys it from a rich director. The man who sold the rights to the script to Vince says that he saw a man with that kind of passion once, and it led to his demise. He gave Vince the advice to not let a movie drive him crazy, that it wasn't worth it. This advice reminded me of the advice Victor gave to Walton. Vince sells his home to pay for the script, going broke, and letting everything ride on this movie. It eventually ends up flopping, and he ends up broke with a struggling career and with his mom in Queens. I'm not sure if this example is the most scholarly, especially since it's a TV show on HBO; but it was one man telling the other that his obsession will not end well. I am interested to see if Walton heeds Victors advice, and learns from Victors story, or if Walton is ill-fated as well.
I might have missed this, but I was wondering how Victor came about all these spare body parts. He said he had this room in the attic or something like that, and it was the place where he kept all these body parts. I wonder where he went at night to find spare parts for this Frankenstein. I started reading a little past where we were supposed to, and I was trying to picture the creature he made. It seemed to me like some morbid Mr. Potato Head. It had all these random body parts combined to make some horrible looking monster
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