on story-telling of a sort that we have witnessed earlier (I:L4:30, I:3:13). Such
a mirroring of the function of narrative will become a dominant motif in the late
pages of the novel. This act of doubling seems to entail another, identifying the
creation that is Victor's tale with his earlier creation, the being who five paragraphs
earlier had presented to his sight "a figure the most hideous and deformed" (III:6:10).