In the 1818 edition the last noun of Volume 1, in Victor's narration, is "misery"
(I:7:33), and the second volume opens on a scene in which he draws further into himself
and his despair (II:1:1). Given the technical mastery of Frankenstein, it is thus
perhaps only to be expected that the Creature's autobiographical account should conclude
with the Creature in the exact condition of his Creator, sharing an existential misery
compounded of solitude and guilt.