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Margaret, what comment can I make on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit? What can I say that will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow? All that I should express would be inadequate and feeble. My tears flow; my mind is overshadowed by a cloud of disappointment. But I journey towards England, and I may there find consolation. 去书内
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    This lament captures Walton’s devastation and disillusion, framed by the “untimely extinction” of Frankenstein’s “glorious spirit”—a tragic oxymoron highlighting the ruin of ambition. His inability to articulate sorrow (“inadequate and feeble”) mirrors the novel’s themes of inexpressible suffering, while “cloud of disappointment” masks the shattered hope of his own Arctic quest. The turn toward “England” and “consolation” is a quiet surrender, renouncing the “glory” he once chased. In this grief, Walton embodies the novel’s final warning: the cost of unchecked ambition is not just personal ruin, but the erosion of belief in the “glory” that drove it—a somber coda to a tale of hubris, loss, and the fragility of human aspiration.

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