III:3:6), the sublime power represented by the Creature is introduced to disturb its
tranquillity. Before, however, it was Victor who felt the effect of this natural profusion.
Here, clearly, Elizabeth is identified with a natural beneficence that Victor over
the course of the past five years has all but forsaken. What distinguishes her examples
is the ability she demonstrates to see all elements in motion; in their varied relations
with one another; and in their distinct particularity, whether distant and high (Mônt
Blanc) or near and deep (the bottom of Lake Geneva), rather than according to some
reductive model by which they are made identical and rendered inanimate. One senses
here a very different conception of nature from that manifested by Victor as scientist.