NOTES

not only you and your family, but thousands of others, shall be swallowed up in the whirlwinds of its rage

This is an open threat of mass destruction, the second such intimation of the violence to which the Creature will resort if he is provoked: see II:2:7. Although its unethical dimensions cannot be ignored, one should again remark how aptly congruent is the amoral power Percy Bysshe Shelley saw embodied in Mont Blanc itself: see Shelley's "Mont Blanc," lines 107-20.