health, it resonates within a psychological and moral construction as well, once again
reminding us of how like the state of his Creature Victor's has become. The Creature
functions as a shadow, not just in the modern sense of trailing Victor wherever he
goes, but also in his incapacity ever to assume a full human dimension. Victor, in
his isolation and his chronic sense of undiscriminating guilt, has also forsaken that
dimension. In the late chapters of the novel Victor's physical condition is, as here,
a measure of his psychic state.