As a result of refusing to create a counterpart for
creation, the creation swears revenge on Victor until he is as lonely and
solitary as it is. It promises to be with him on his wedding night, which
Victor believes means that the creation will attempt to kill him then. However,
before that, it kills Henry Clerval, a murder that causes Victor to once again
become overcome by grief, and almost causes him to be executed. He recovers
however, and returns to Geneva to marry Elizabeth.
All is well until their
wedding night, when Victor realizes that the creation is not planning on
killing him, but rather Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s death is the final straw for
Victor, and he develops an obsessive desire for revenge. Soon he and the
creation have switched roles, with Victor aimlessly chasing the creation around
the world in order to kill it. He drifts further away from society until even
the landscape around him (such as the barren terrain of the north where he
encounters Walton) is devoid of human life (unrelated to the main idea of this
post, but this could also relate back to the Romantic theme of the importance of
nature, for as Victor loses his humanity, so does the natural world around him
lose its beauty).
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