Frankenstein Quotes Friendship

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Theme: Friendship
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Chapter 4, pg. 38

Victor is trying to display his regret for attaining and seeking information so vigorously. When he explains his regret so strenuously, he ends up stating that he wish he spent more time with friends and his fellow mankind. He explains to Walton how a happier man spends more time in conquest of time with people in the world. He shows that one must have friends, instead of trying so strongly to be better than nature and friends will allow him to be.
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He also gave me the list of books which I had requested; and took my leave. Thus ended a day memorable to me: it decided my future destiny.” (pg.44) Victor Frankenstein about his professor.

With Victor’s new introduction to the University of Ingolstadt he is very lonely. Additionally, because his old method of thinking-natural philosophy- was shown to him as true fairy tale he is a man with no ambition. However, with this new found friend his professor, his curiosity has triggered a new ambition for a fiend, being his professor, who can properly guide him throughout the course of science. Victor, out of all his professors feels the closest toward this one, and because of they both are allowed to level with one another. In theory Victor, a student to his professor, is also his newfound novice.

Writing style: Intellectual
“One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?” (pg.46) Victor to