Frankenstein: Foils

"Meanwhile Clerval occupied himself, so to speak, with the moral relations of things. His hope and his dream was to become one among whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species." pg. 37 I think that Henry Clerval and Victor Frankenstein are foils in many regards. They both have a desire to learn, but in very different ways. Victor wants to become the master of science and has no use for morals, which Clerval focuses on. Also, Victor has an obsession with knowing and learning science that ultimately leads to physical illness. Clerval, on the other hand, is motivated to become one of the moral benefactors of the human race, but when his father does not allow him to go to university he does not become ill. Also, I wonder if it was Clerval who was desiring to make the monster, whether he would ponder the morality of his actions. Also, if Frankenstein was a little more like Clerval and instead of thinking "Can I do this?," he thinks "Should I do this?" I think that because he is a foil to Clerval and because he is so driven by discovery that the thought never crossed his mind and would have never crossed his mind. The foils bring out the characteristics of Frankenstein and show his progression as the story moves on.