Friday, April 23, 2010

'Seek happiness in tranquility

"'Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries'" (Shelley, Chapter 24).

This is another warning to Walton of avoiding the same fate that he befell. Victor thinks men should not wade into waters outside of their nature and fall into deep passion and madness for it like he did. He greatly believes knowledge is dangerous, just as much as his own creation did too as he feared growing intelligent and correlating circumstances to mood and attitude. The two are similar and fear extremes, and Victor wishes he could have broken his passion and been happy where he was.

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