The power of the Creature's rage is shocking, perhaps as well to himself after having
spent an entire year in isolation and under a regimen of strict and carefully enforced
self-control. The infinitive, however, reminds us how severely that control has been
earlier exercised by him. It might likewise call to mind the lack of restraint with
which Victor Frankenstein pursued the researches that resulted in the Creature's birth
(I:3:3).