• when you . . . danger Compare with this the stanza quoted from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    to characterize Victor's precipitous walk the morning after the Creature came to life
    (I:4:7 and note). Victor's sense of helplessness, which will soon reach an extremity,
    becoming transformed into a catatonic physical state, will increasingly dominate the
    novel's late events.