Question #7 - What difficult circumstances does Walton encounter when he meets Victor Frankenstein? In the letters that Robert Walton sent to his sisters, there is legitimate evidence that he was encountering difficult circumstances when he met Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein. As Walton's ship sailed toward the North Pole, he encountered thick fog and lots of ice. Walton's exact words were: "...we were almost surrounded by ice" (8). and he also exclaimed: "...we were surrounded by a very thick fog" (8). Additionally, while trapped in the ice around them, they saw a gigantic figure moving along the ice, which disturbed the crew because, as Walton had said in his letters: "We were , as we believed, several hundred kilometers from any land. " (8). Question #8 - How does Shelley emphasize the extreme isolation of the ship? Shelley emphasizes the extreme isolation of the ship in several different ways. In the fourth letter, when the fog and ice surrounded the ship, Walton crudely says: "...we saw, extended in all directions, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end" (8). ship when Walton sadly says, “Enclosed, however, by the ice, it was impossible to follow its track” (8) Shelley used words like “endless” or “impossible” to make the ship seem like it was. extremely isolated Question #9 – Early in his story, Victor Frankenstein suggests that he has something in common with the Captain Explain. has similarities with the Captain After spending a lot of time with Walton, Victor breaks down and tells him, “Unfortunate! Do you share my follies... in the middle of a paper... or did you come home urgently. Question n°19- In what way does Victor consider himself responsible? Victor considers himself responsible for the murder of William and Justine. The night Victor returned to Geneva, he saw the scary monster around the place where William had been murdered (50). it was all his fault because if he hadn't created the monster, his brother wouldn't have been killed. The monster accused Justine of William's murder by putting his mother's photo in Justine's pocket (56). guilty and the court sentenced her to death because of it (60). At the end of chapter 8, Victor Frankenstein assigns responsibility for death by directly saying this: "I saw those whom I loved spend vain sorrows on the graves of William and Justine, the first unfortunate victims of my impious arts" (60).