to beware of mere eloquence, since the Creature's eloquence had once persuaded him
to undertake a second monstrous creation to which on sober reflection he should not
have agreed. Should we therefore construe Walton's faith in Victor's eloquence in
similar terms? Or does it testify to the innate sympathy that eloquence forges between
one human being and another? Again, Mary Shelley seems to raise major questions only
to leave them wholly ambiguous in their import.