Cleval

• Who is Cleval?


  Cleval is a symbol to remind Victor of what he has rejected
• ‘an intimate friend’


  Victor describing Henry Cleval
• ‘I grasped his hand’.... ‘And for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy’


  Victor seeks comfort in connection, unlike the monster. The human world has connection and comfort from humaity
• ‘he was alive to every new scene’


  Cleval is a romantic and not bound to the promise of the monster so he can enjoy nature whilst Victor violates it
• ‘Have my murderous machinations deprived my dearest Henry of life’


  Victor may recognise his role in the monsters murder's
• ‘My frame could no longer support the agonising human suffering'


  As he approaches Cleval's body. Victor’s suffering arises out of the monsters existence, monster’s revenge
• ‘I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck’


  Victor can feel his fate
• ‘like the turning of a wheel, continually renewed torture’


  Modern Prometheus of suffering