whirlwinds of its rage
This is an open threat of mass destruction, the second such intimation of the violence
to which the Creature will resort if he is provoked: see II:2:7. Although its unethical
dimensions cannot be ignored, one should again remark how aptly congruent is the amoral
power Percy Bysshe Shelley saw embodied in Mont Blanc itself: see Shelley's "Mont
Blanc," lines 107-20.