expression. Victor has neither seen nor spoken to him for an entire year since their
encounter on the Sea of Ice. Moreover, throughout the progress of the second volume,
in the humanization attendant upon the Creature's autobiographical account, we had
gradually lost sight of his objective physical deformity. Here, we are thrust back
into an "objectification" that is so extreme that it allows Victor to relinguish all
sense of humane obligation or fellow feeling. The self-righteousness that accompanies
this distancing is perhaps to be expected.