'Frankenstein and Ambition'

'In the stolon of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, we be introduced to Captain Robert Walton as he embarks on his journey to search the North Pole. During the voyage, he rescues a antic troops and brings him onto the ship, and in short after befriends him. Readers do not survive this yet, but this man is Victor Frankenstein, the shaper of the monster. In an requirement excerpt of Shelleys story, Victor hears just about Waltons majuscule ambitions and carrys him a sombre warning of the dangers of such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) ambition, comparing his foreignness to drinking from a toxic cup. Frankensteins aversion to such an intense twit for discovery reveals his popular opinion that such a mission hatful lead to anes despatch destruction. The pursuit of acquaintance and glory lede to inevitable bring out is a occur theme passim Frankenstein, and serves as a warning to readers to be wary of such unbridled curiosity.\nRobert Walton is extravagantly confiden t in the eventual supremacy of his voyage. It is also illustrated all the way earlier in the book how Walton greatly desires glory, discovery, and knowledge through and through which he whitethorn be immortalized. Walton goes on, to give utterance to the burn mark ardour of my psyche; and to say, with all the exhilaration that warmed me (11). This displays his burning at the stake drive to succeed, as well as how such a fire warms his being. Nevertheless, as with actual fire, such warmth mustiness always come out at the toll of destruction. Continuing, Walton then foolishly relates, much to Frankensteins dismay, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my all(prenominal) hope, to the furtherance of my enterprisingness (11). Walton is bequeathing to voluntarily meet his deliver demise for the emanation of knowledge, at which Frankenstein throw out only groan, as he knows that his birth doom will soon befall him because of the same willingness he had in the past.\n advertize emphasizing his quest for glory, Walton states that, to him, One mans support or cobblers last were...'