The opening letters of Frankenstein reveal Robert Walton as a curious captain with an ambition to travel to the North Pole, in search to accomplish some "great purpose."
This romantic hero begins to feel lonely, and isolated while being surrounded by his unsophisticated shipmates who wouldn't understand his "love for the marvelous, a belief in the marvelous." which pushes him to stay on his own path with his new quest to find a friend. when they find the mysterious man Walton takes full responsibility to caring him back to health.
The mysterious man seemed to be on a journey as well, with a dark secret. He was a scholarly man and very reserved; but the guilt was written all over his face. As Walton and the man become closer, creating this character foil the man finally decides to tell his story. The preface and four letters are the frame story to unfolding the mysterious man's secret identity and his untold story beginning in chapter 1.
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