the greater became my desire
The Creature's intensity, like the suddenness of his admiration for Safie
(2.5.1 and note), has the ring of adolescence
to it. It is not, then, utterly surprising that it should remind us of
the diction of the two "ardent" men whose youthful discourse we have
already overheard: Walton (see Letter
1.2 and Letter 2.2) and
Victor Frankenstein (see 1.2.3, 1.3.1, and 1.3.4). Burning desire is a characteristic
all three share.
