How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief? He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.

These letters serve as a social connection during a time when Frankenstein isolates himself due to his experimentation with immortality. I understood these letters to be representative of the dream-like state Frankenstein seems to always be in versus the reality Elizabeth and Alphonse exist in.

In the fourth letter, the ship stalls between huge sheets of ice, and Walton and his men spot a sledge guided by a gigantic creature about half a mile away. The crew is burning with curiosity, but Walton, aware of the man’s still-fragile state, prevents his men from burdening the stranger with questions.

Victor is acquitted of the murder because he was in Orkney Islands the night of the murder. Why does Elizabeth think that Victor is depressed and troubled? Elizabeth thinks that Victor is depressed and troubled because he’s torn between her and another woman.

He is determined to choose the more difficult path, even if that path costs him his life (and the lives of the people he loves). When he makes his decision he is thinking about his future reputation: “I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest.”

Victor even tells his father “how little you know me. William, Justine, and Henry — they all died by my hands.” An emphasis on “my hands” can be made because it was Victor’s hands that created the monster, although the monster uses his own hands to strangle his victims.