• satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory Curiously, in this respect the Creature is the opposite of Victor Frankenstein, whom
    he otherwise mirrors in so many aspects. Victor was so preoccupied with inscribing
    his experiences in such a way as to exonerate himself that he corrected Walton's transcript
    of his narration (III:Walton:4). Oddly enough, the only tangible memory that the Creature
    existed is embodied in Walton's manuscript, of which he is ignorant.