Ambition

• Drunk from the intoxicating draught


  Ambition being like a drink, beverage, addition, drug, harmful, tantalising, evil, possessive, consuming, overpowering
• Dash the cup from your lips


  Ambition being like a drink, beverage, addition, drug, harmful, tantalising, evil, possessive, consuming, overpowering
• One man's life and death were but a small price to pay for my aquirement of knowledge


  • Walton
  • Parallel to Frankenstein's own experience but irony of it being a bigger price to pay for his own aquirement
  • Self centred and detached
  • Selfish
  • Ardent
  • Fully committed
  • Immensely passionate
  • Devoted
  • Tree of knowledge irony of isolation and suffering for Victor and Walton
• I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to Heaven, for nothing contribute so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose


  Walton (Letter 1), biblical imagery/metaphor, ambition
• I imagine that I also might obtain a niche in the temple, where the names of Homer and Shakespeare were consecrated


  Walton (Letter 1), Ambition, Legacy, Arrogance
• I have voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep


  Walton (Letter 1) Sacrifical ambition, overpowering ambition, destructive.
• Was more deeply smitten with the thirst of knowledge


  Irony, foreshadowing
• cord after cord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose


  Victor (Chapter 3)
• a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seem to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit


  Victor
• I appeared, rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade did an artist occupied by his favourite employment


  Victor, a slave to ambition
• Yet, why do I say this?… another may succeed.


  Victor reconsiders warning about ambition