Although the discussion may seem to have moved far from the structural center of the
novel, the resonance of this phrase reminds us of the glorious ambitions driving both
Walton and Victor Frankenstein and of how Victor's aspiration that "many happy and
excellent natures would owe their being to" him (I:3:8) has been disastrously subverted
into a murder and miscarriage of justice implicating both his Creature and himself.