The Creature's intensity, like the suddenness of his admiration for Safie (II:5:4
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 I:L1:2 and I:L2:2) and Victor Frankenstein
(see I:2:7, I:3:1, and I:3:6). Burning desire is a characteristic all three share.