14. final words of Victor and final words of monster

Victor's final words really surprised me and so did the monster's. Victor's words are basically a warning to an ambitious explorer like Walton. Since victor found out what dangerous knowledge and ambition lead to, he wants to warn Walton. "Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. yet why do i say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes yet another may succeed (162)." Victor basically wants to make sure that no other human makes the same mistake that he has made. Victor still believes that he was the most miserable being on earth and his hatred towards the monster was strong even on his death bed.

The monster's words however are very different. The monster contradicts what Victor has said and argued that he was more miserable. "My agony was still superior to thine (166)." I agree with the monster that his agony was way more than Victor's because the monster had complete isolation. The monster also states that, " I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds (166)." The fact that the monster uses flames to describe his death is very important. Fire and represented knowledge and discovery which is what the monster himself is; he is also discovery. If he destroys himself, he has taken that knowledge away. The light or knowledge of his existence will, "fade away," as he said. The last part of that quote shows how nature is triumphant in the end. the sea sweeping the monsters ashes symbolizes nature taking back what is rightfully hers, the power of creation.