• the well balancing of what you may esteem your duties That Victor, who has throughout the novel been unable to fulfill his duties to either
    his family or his Creature, should be able to speak in such measured terms of a balance
    among multiple duties is certainly an indication of the objectivity and even wisdom
    to which he may aspire when he moves outside his own narrow concerns. That he specifically
    steps back from the coercive tone by which he had earlier tried to enlist Walton as
    his agent in murder (III:7:26) likewise testifies to his rediscovery of a moral center
    in his last hours of life.