• ardently prayed The language of ardor, earlier associated with the scientific pursuits of both Walton
    (I:L1:2, I:L3:1) and Victor Frankenstein (I:3:2, I:4:3)—where in the latter case it
    is tinged with something approaching the eroticism only fully expressed after the
    death of Elizabeth (III:6:9)—is here transferred into the arena of hatred. In Victor
    this hatred will constitute a passion as intense and single-minded as erotic infatuation.