Frankenstein- Blog 8

The doubling that happens between Henry and Victor in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is very predominant. It happens to be that as they go on to their voyage for Victor's quest to make the creature's mate, we see that Henry has become as Victor had been before the creature's creation. Henry was not interested in nature and science while Victor saw it in gloom. "He was alive to every new scene; joyful when he was the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise, and recommence a new appearances of the sky" (Shelley, 112). Henry was taking Victor's path of loving nature but in a way that Victor did not. Henry was optimistic and was not too eager. He was easy-going and had patience, something that Victor lacked. Victor wanted to hold the world in his hands while Henry knew he could only live in that world.