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Walton's last letters

Walton's last letters. The creature comes to Victor's body, grieves, and goes out onto the ice to die.

The Sea of Ice
The Sea of Ice. Caspar David Friedrich, 1823 to 1824, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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The quotes

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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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