I will answer this question and hopefully the dozen or so
people who are asking this same question today will be able to get an answer, at least
from my point of view.
If you want to find quotes that
emphasize fate and destiny in this novel, you should look at the beginning and end of
the novel, when Robert Walton is writing to his sister, outlining his reasons for making
the voyage. Then, at the end of the novel, in the letters that Walton writes to his
sister when it appears as if he may be shipwrecked, he makes many comments about his
pride in attempting such a voyage that would endanger his crew. You should also check
out the last words of Frankenstein as he tells the end of his story. He, too, shares
what he has learned about his warped pursuits of science to further his own fame, and
not for the improvement of mankind. Also, the Monster's last words after Frankenstein
dies also address the idea of fate and destiny, and how things would have turned out if
only Frankenstein had not created him.
You will have to do
this digging on your own to find valuable quotes, but I will give you a couple of
examples. Walton tells the Monster at Frankenstein's
deathbed:
If
you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you
had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extrimity, Frakenstein would yet have
lived.
Before dying,
Frankenstein tells Walton, as a means of warning him that Walton's destiny will be the
same as Frankenstein's if he is not careful because he detects the same pride in Walton
as he once had:
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Farewell, Walton! Seek hapiness in tranquility
and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing
yourself in science and
discoveries.
Finally, Walton
writes to his sister, explaining that he has changed his mind and decided to thwart the
destiny that his blind ambition would have led him to, and thus doomed his
crew:
The die
is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted
by cowardice and indecisions. I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more
philosophy than I possess to bear this injustice with
patience.
Get the point? OK,
now it is your turn.
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