Wrongly believing the monster's vowed revenge was for his own life, he asks Elizabeth to retire to her room for the night while he goes looking for the fiend. He searches the house and grounds, but the creature murders the secluded Elizabeth instead. Victor sees the monster at the window pointing at the corpse. Grief-stricken by the deaths of William, Justine, Clerval, and now Elizabeth, Victor's father dies. Victor vows to pursue the monster until one of them annihilates the other. After months of pursuit, the two end up in the Arctic Circle, near the North Pole. Captain Walton's concluding frame narrative At the end of Victor's narrative, Captain Walton resumes the telling of the story. A few days after the vanishing of the creature, the ship becomes entombed in ice and Walton's crew insists on returning south once they are freed. In spite of a passionate speech from Frankenstein, encouraging the crew to
Cronin (2003, p. 157) mentions the tendency, in travel writing in major languages, to minoritize the minority language. We could say in addition that, by eliminating any reference to `reality', the erroneous transcription of the minority language actually annihilates it. Yet, credibility is achieved not only through samples of the natives' language. As previously mentioned, many characters in both texts Á sometimes also acting as interpreters Áspeak either `the global language', English, or French at various levels