NOTES
when you . . . danger
Compare with this the stanza quoted from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to characterize Victor's precipitous walk the morning after the Creature came to life (
I:4:7 and
note). Victor's sense of helplessness, which will soon reach an extremity, becoming transformed into a catatonic physical state, will increasingly dominate the novel's late events.