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Robert Walton - Coggle Diagram
Robert Walton
presented as idealistic
appreciates the sublime beauty of nature and wants to be the first one to pass its border and discover its secrets
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imprudent and hubristic, like Frankenstein
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compassionate - contrasts to how he treats the monster, suggesting his is another human blinded by prejudice
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his ambition, imagination & determination echoes Frankenstein's own journey
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'the explorer who Victor entrusts his horrific tale to, serving as a cautionary figure who curbs his own ambition to avoid a fate similar to Victor's'
hopes to discover a 'passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite' - an unrealistic goal