At first sight this appears to be an evocation of the imagination more in line with
the normative practices of British Romanticism than earlier ones have been: the Creature
in his isolation takes refuge in an innocent, even utopian world of his own making,
one provided by the creative power of his imagination. This characteristic, almost
more than any other so far encountered in his educational process, testifies to his
fully human sensibility. From a more analytical perspective, however, such a refuge
of the creative imagination shares the main attributes of Victor's introverted retreat
at Ingolstadt, even to the point of opening the way to a sudden, disastrous reversal.