...life. What did he there ? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother ? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...quickly, and I lost it in the gloom. Nothing in human H2 shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer! I could not doubt it. The mere...

...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer 1 I could not doubt it The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact I thought...

...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean 30 against a tree for support. The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom. Nothing in...

...confirmation of the facts: "Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination than I became convinced of its truth" (73). Frankenstein even seems able to anticipate the monster's intentions: Sometimes I thought that...

...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination than...and I was forced to lean against a tree for support. (P- 73) Finally, after the pathetic and innocent Justine has been accused, tried, convicted, and executed...

...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...gloom. Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. He was the murderer! I could not doubt it. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible...

...informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life. What did he there? . . . The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom. (Shelley 1992, 73) Later, in the village of Chamonix, where Victor has traveled from the Frankensteins'...

...that it will become a reality. Referring to the creature being the murderer of William, he admits that "No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth" (Frankenstein, 56). Victor's assurance in the accuracy of his thought is not motivated by a Gothic...

...creature figures only as a momentary apparition whose physical monstrosity declares his moral deformity. "Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer!" (71). We could thus hardly have expected the creature's articulate reception of Frankenstein. His mere...

...is concerned. "I could not doubt it," he says of his brief glimpse of the Creature outside Geneva. "The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact" (56). This, then, is Victor's frame of mind when the Creature later makes his case to him in classic...