This is only the second occasion in which the Creature has shed tears, the other being
on the first night of his existence (II:3:2). Yet how different is this repetition,
another sign of the growing refinement of his emotional life. His oxymoronic response
to music (and perhaps to Safie as well) is a further example of how his education
proceeds by encompassing opposites (see II:3:6 and note).