comparing himself to God

• not in current state of regret
• being on the cusp of creating a new living form
• he’s having a hard time handling this new found power

• a pause to give moment of reaction
• Waldman kinda saying “you did what”

• getting to the scientific core
• early example of science fiction

• grand, rhetorical vision of science which Victor feeds on

• making small discoveries at a time

• fictions

• compact metaphor
• beginning of his passion
• hidden well below the ground but becomes a river (destroying force)
• in the book weather begins to show what type of state he is in