I shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe
Mary Shelley gives her Creature
the honor of discovering the North Pole
over a century before the first human explorer reached it. She does so,
however, not just for the sake of irony, but to complete a figurative
line that has spanned the novel from Walton's first letter (Letter 1.2) on and has underscored the
linkage of Walton and Victor Frankenstein. The Creature, who was
brought to life by a fiery electric charge, intends through fire to resign
his being into the pure electromagnetic field of the pole.
