He states, now that I have finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. ... Secrecy - Victor conceives of science as a mystery to be probed; its secrets, once discovered, must be jealously guarded. ... Krempe , the natural philosopher he meets at Ingolstadt, a model scientist: "an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science." Victor's entire obsession with creating life is shrouded in secrecy, and his obsession with destroying the monster remains equally secret until Walton hears his tale. ... In contrast to this, Victor...

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According to Mellor: Victor Frankenstein embodies certain elements of Percy Shelley's temperament and character that had begun to trouble Mary Shelley - namely and intellectual hubris and belief in the supreme importance of mental abstractions that led him to be insensitive to the feelings of those who did not share his ideas and enthusiasms. (73) Frankenstein's education is based on Percy Shelley's; both were avid students of several noted medieval alchemists as were they equally fascinated with alchemy and chemistry. ... Ingolstadt was famous as the home of the ...

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