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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, is Written by Mary Shelley; the first Idea of the book turns around Robert Walton, the Captain who set his ship and crew to explore the North Pole, the captain Robert Walton wrote several letters to inform his sister about his adventures. However, the captain included a second story to his letters and informed his sister about the Frankenstein adventures with his monster the way he heard from victor Frankenstein. The two stories were introduced spontaneously to the reader; after The Captain ship got trapped in frozen water the crew saw from the chip a giant man in the distance on a dogsled. Hours later they found Frankenstein and his dogsled near the ship; the man was in need of help and desperate for information, he was brought aboard. After his recovery, Frankenstein told the Captain Walton his story so that Walton would learn the price of pursuing glory at any cost (chapter IV, page. 54) Frankenstein grew up in a loving family, and he had a very comfortable childhood. As he grew up to the college age, he was driven by his love and obsesses with theories about what gives humans their life spark and the change from life to death, and death to life, to create a human from scavenged body parts. Once his creation lived, Frankenstein was disgusted by its ugliness, so he ran away from it. I found Frankenstein very intelligent and promising, as he explained his observations and remarks toward the world; however, he was driven away from electricity and galvanization to creating a monster to end up advising the stranger Walton to learn from his experience and to realize the happiness in his words “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” Ch. IV, page 54 This change ends and resumes both Frankenstein and Walton stories; while they were both heading toward discovery, adventures and knowledge. However there is a contradiction in timing the actions, when Frankenstein who is at the end of his adventure, tells Walton, who is starting his to go backward; as a matter of fact, his story affected the crew and discouraged them; moreover, it lead them to go home after few hard experiences. Two very important questions arising in my head, what was the reason of including Victor story into Walton’s? Because it could’ve been a single story from Victor Second question is way was Walton the only one to see the monster? Knowing that Walton was mostly happy Does the author like to pass the message to every one trying to discover? Or does she like to keep the nature in its greatest power forever? Or is there a further explanation? The captain Walton, presented letters, a very strong desire of a glorious discovering of the North Pole he said “ I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and many tread land never before imprinted by the foot of man” Letter I, page 16 Walton explained also his desire of finding a friend, a true friend to share with him his success and disappointments as well when he complained to his sister and said “I have no friend …when I’m glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy: if I’m assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection” letter II, page 19 Unlike Walton, Victor had the good friends and had no plan to his discovery; as a matter of fact, he ended up creating a monster based on gathering himself away from everyone loved him but with the “  gigantic structure” Ch. IV, page 54 The captain met Victor and anticipated to find the friend in him, while Victor advised him not to go his way in science? Victor told the captain about the monster unlike everyone else he knows, and the monster appeared to Walton. I found that some events are very compressed, in this novel; therefore, it could be a sign of richness of contents, such as friendship and other values. On the other side this compression and unbalanced timing in the events can’t be forgiving some times. Here I include the next passage “I revolved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure. Two years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life; and was this first crime. In this passage from Frankenstein, page 78, chapter VII, the writer is giving the reader the impression of spinning around, by coming back to the old thoughts that caused him to move around in a circular course, as about a central point; certainly when he related the act of revolving in his mind to the events and not to the thoughts or to the memories, thus the writer is personalizing the events, the memories and the thoughts. He is focusing on forgetting, and he is searching for that goal for a long time as he said “I sought to forget”. The author seems to be drowning in a very slow process of a long trial of forgetting; however he goes very generous in his prolongation of what turned in his brain, in fact what he is trying to forget When the author stated the events that came to his mind, he used many words such as “whole”, “train ”“Progress” “two years “; and all these vocabularies stand for the long heavy process. Progressive represents a movement toward a goal, further or higher stage, as in science it is an activity or opportunity of growth or continuous improvement of well-being of the public through the goods, techniques created; The development of an individual or society in a direction considered more beneficial and superior to the previous level. However, Victor talked about his progress toward his creation like he talked about his appearance, but the appearance was limited to the creator not to the public, the progresses was toward a creation that he runs away from it and work on forgetting it for years instead of benefitting from it. On the other side Victor repeats the same action with various words such as “creation” “appearance” “departure” and “received life”, Victor is suffering what happened and he regrets his action which lead to the horrible result, a crime”, thus he said at first “the work of my own hands” then said “which he first received life” Victor is trying to detach from any relationship with his creation. After focusing on most Victor’s vocabulary, I could resume his fear of actions and thoughts. Unlike any scientist who fears his progress in any project, Victor fears his Creation, the result of his project and the crime that he committed, even though he is not sure about it. I also noticed the power of this paragraph that resumed the history of the creation of the monster and the heavy weight that it laid on the creator, also, the harm she caused him. On the other side we notice the contradiction between Victor fearful thoughts and his passivity toward facing his creation; as a matter of fact he is fighting the event in his mind only, he is not acting anyhow? Victor is trying to forget the existence of the monster rather than finding him and work on a solution, or even a reason for his existence. In the novel of Mary Shelley, the presence of nature was as important as the presence of the monster or may be more. We noticed that the captain was defeating the ace and trying to discover the unknown lands, facing challenges and freezing environments that lead him to go backward with his crew. However, we noticed that nature was for Victor a point of departure and enquiries that lead him to further his studies. Since he saw the lightning completely decimate a tree, and then he learned theories of electricity and galvanization. Nature was the witness of the monster in the autumn night; as well it was the first witness of reassembling of the monster and Victor after two years, and also it was the witness of their death in gloomy rainy and sometime stormy weather. On the other side nature was Victor escape and relieve The strength of the nature presence in the novel was accompanied with another important subject, which can be related to the nature as part of it or as an independent truth or value. Very remarkable is the number of deaths that happened in the novel as well as it happened in the author’s life. Death was the reason of creation or its tool; creation of the novel, the creation of the monster, and the creation of a new theory. However the author was not able to change any of the death effect or truth.