Once again, Victor yields his will to his passion. But the terms he uses seem to invoke
something beyond the question of free will and determinism. Victor at this point recognizes
that his imagination, the creative power of fantasy, is driving his pursuit of the
unknown, which tends to implicate a faculty ordinarily privileged in British Romanticism.
Something of the same order happened four paragraphs earlier, when the imagination
was likewise cited (I:3:7).