The repetition of wording within this paragraph (which is immediately reaccentuated
in the second sentence of the following one) alerts us to the "burning," that is to
say, "consuming," nature of this pursuit for Victor Frankenstein and echoes the similar
language of Walton (I:L1:2). Variations on this language recur throughout the chapter
and become increasingly associated with disease (I:3:9, I:3:14).