FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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On a boat alone in the water
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On the ice alone
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Trying to stowaway
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Trying to steal food
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fuelled by a desire to navigate the Northwest Passage and to locate Magnetic North – desires that are recounted in epistolary form in the novel – Walton leads an ultimately failed expedition to the Arctic. On the polar ice during this journey, he meets Victor Frankenstein and finds him close to death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why is the man Walton rescues traveling alone on the ice? The man says, “To seek one who fled from me.” How does Walton feel about hearing his new friend’s story? Walton is grateful that the man will tell his story, but he worries that telling it will cause the man renewed grief.
Detailed explanation-3: -Walton’s ship is surrounded by fog and trapped in the ice. Walton and his crew see a very large being in a sledge, pulled by dogs. The next morning they encounter another man in a sledge, Victor Frankenstein, and take him on board.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an epistolary story, told entirely through letters. Robert Walton is the narrator who writes these letters to his sister on his expedition to discover the North Pole.