• I, the native of a genial and sunny climate The atmosphere of the third volume of the novel, with the exception of the honeymoon
    excursion along Lake Geneva, has been so far from genial that the reader is enjoined
    at this point to recall the original balancing of the novel, in which the civilized
    bourgeois world of the Frankenstein household represents the beautiful against the
    sublime of Mont Blanc and the Creature whom Victor encounters there in the second
    volume (II:2:5).