The sense of the momentous responsibility he has assumed seems for the moment to have
made Victor into a new being. In a curious way, by recognizing what it is to be God,
he becomes more like the sober and fearful Adam setting out from Eden at the end of
Paradise Lost, a moral being for whom, as the Creature himself has acknowledged in
reference to Byron's Manfred (II:5:18 and note, II:7:10 and note), knowledge is commensurate
with sorrow.