Female body and rape imagery

• ‘the world was to me a secret, which I sort to discover’


  Link Walton. Have to take control of something to uncover its secrets. Victor takes control of nature, rape
• ‘ruled my destiny’


  Victor believes he was chosen to violate
• ‘They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places’


  nature is synonymous with the female body. Hiding places = womb, vagina. The scientists are all men. They are the ones that violate the female body and therefore nature
• ‘incredible labour and fatigue’


  Childbirth
• 'I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life'

  Victor usurps God’s power and also the fundamental roles of women to give him a God-like status. Post-childbirth he is haunted by those choices
•  ‘arrive at the summit of my desires’


  Orgasm, creation is a sexual desire for Victor
• ‘pour a torrent of light into our dark world’


  Victor views himself as a saviour in violation
• ‘my limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with remembrance’


  fear but driven by climax of creation and desire to create life
• ‘the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes'


  Regret
•  ‘through which the eye could just penetrate’


  although he does not understand it, the monster is violating the De Lacey family. This violation comes out of fear and naivety, however Victors is out of his search for power.