In Frankenstein, When Victor arrives at Ingolstadt, he encounters two professors: M. Krempe and M. Waldman. What inferences can you make about Victor's feelings toward M. Krempe and M. Waldman? Provide evidence from the text to support your inferences.

Victor was asked by M. Krempe to reconsider his study choices whereas in M. Waldman, he saw a possibility of his interests. He later became a student of Waldman.

Explanation:

Victor Frankenstein's first encounters with the professors at Ingolstadt is mentioned in Chapter 3 where he had went to submit his letters of introduction and visiting some of the principal professors. It was there that he met "M, Krempe, professor of natural philosophy". Mr. Krempe told him that he had been wasting his entire studying and advised him to start anew, for according to him, what Victor had studied were "a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient".

But contrary to Krempe, his encounter with M. Waldman was way different. Rather, he opened a new possibility for him, which made him want to further pursue his interest of the human physiology scientifically. Waldman's lectures made him believe in the capability of scientists in performing miracles and acquiring unlimited powers. He exclaimed "As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose".