-On a 'Chill night in November' Victor brings his creation to life, immediatly after Victor feels voilently sick, as though he has witnessed a catastrophe.
When Victor is wrecked by illness both mind and body, this is really unnatural characteristics shown by Victor, as if his body is punishing him for creating such a horrible creature.
- Victor describes how he picked the perfect body parts such as pearl white teeth and wavy, black hair for the creature however the end product is hideous, it has thin black lips, inhuman eyes and sallow skin in which you can see his muscles, veins and arteries working.
- Victors obsessions becomes a reality, he no longer is working towards becoming a god-like figure towards the creature, he now feels disgusted with his own piece of work.
- Victor rushes back to his bedroom where he dreams about him meeting Elizabeth, he hugs her however she turns into his mother's corpse.
The way Victor has previously messed with life and death becomes significant in his dreams, again his body and mind is punishing him for doing so. It is significant that he dreams about two women who are able to bring life into the world and then suddenly replaced by death.
- He awakens in the middle of the night to find that his creature is sitting at his bedside trying to smile, the creature tries to talk however Victor runs out into the night.
From this it seems as if the creature is entirely innocent and shows that he already knows that Victor is his creature, this is shown by the way Shelley describes the way the creature reaches out to Victor.
It sounds as if Victor has finally realized what his obsession has caused him to do and that his obsession was just one big dream and he has finally awakened to find the mess he has created.
- As Victor is walking through town he spot Henry Clerval getting out of a carriage, at once Victor forgets about what had just happened and rejoices. Henry had finally persuaded his father to allow him to join Victor at Ingolstadt. Henry tells Victor how his family and becoming incredibly worried about his welfare.
The way Victor has abandoned the creature is in comparison to the way he had abandoned his family and friends.
-When returning to Victors house, Victor scours his rooms to check if the creature had gone, in which it had. This brought delight across Victor's face and made him act incredibly out of person which worried Henry. Henry wants to know what is making Victor act so weird but Victor does not tell him.
The way Victor acts completely out of character shows how his obsession has made him mentally ill.
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