The Summer of Our Discontent--part 11

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"Oh! Stars and clouds...leave me in darkness."127

Victor Frankenstein is the second main narrator in the story. He too has a romantic and poetic way of speaking. He is a genius who has discovered a way to animate inanimate objects. He is obsessed with his work, perhaps a little too much so. After bringing his creature to life, he becomes terribly depressed and ill minded at the thought of what he has created. He tends to talk about the world in a very fearful way. After his creation tells him the tale of the murder of Victor's brother, and asks him to make another creature like himself, Victor begins to break down. He is very sad and poetic, like when he said, "let me become as nought; but if not depart, depart and leave me in darkness," which dramatizes the horror he feels about his creation.