The Letters in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (960 words, 2 pages)
FrankensteinMary Shelly's Frankenstein opens with a series of letters from the arctic explorer Robert Walton to his sister Margaret Saville in England. In these letters Walton reveals his Promethean, "machismo" qualities to his sister as he heads, ambition unbridled, into an inhospitable world of ice and sea. Like Victor Frankenstein, ...
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