• I should have wept to die It is true that the Creature's first experience of spring was joyful (II:4:19); but
    his memory is here playing tricks with him. He was created on a "dreary night of November"
    (I:4:1), and upon his escape into the woods near Ingolstadt he experienced extreme
    and uncomfortable cold. His reaction to his first day of life was, in fact, to weep
    (II:3:2).