NOTES

I will proceed with my tale

With Victor's pause to utter his encomium upon Clerval and thus intrude a strong value judgment into his discourse, the question of narrative truth is once again brought to the fore. Once again, Victor intrudes the notion of a "tale," a word used by him (I:L4:28, I:3:13) and by the Creature (II:2:13, II:2:16, II:9:18) to describe their narratives, also (with a different construction of what might constitute the truth) in the last sentence of the novel's Preface.