NOTES

the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me

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.