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Frankenstein, Walton's last letters
Walton's last letters. The creature comes to Victor's body, grieves, and goes out onto the ice to die.
Frankenstein opens with four letters from the explorer Robert Walton, then tells Victor's story in 24 chapters, then closes with Walton's last letters. Walton's last letters come last, after Chapter 24. The 3 key lines here come from the Creature.
This chapter in five words
CreaturemournsVictordeparts
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The quotes
3 big quotes in this chapter.
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.
Creature · Walton's last letters · isolation · prejudice · responsibility
His last speech, over Victor's body. Abandoned. Kicked. Something that should not have been born.
Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
Creature · Walton's last letters · revenge · isolation
Nowhere left to go. He will burn himself on the ice.
I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery
Creature · Walton's last letters · revenge · responsibility
The creature admits he destroyed a man worth loving. He does not say Victor deserved it.
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