After the allusions to hell in these paragraphs the absence of any conventional sign
of heaven is starkly telling. So "hellish" has Victor's psychological state become
that the universe seems to have changed to reflect it. Even as one posits moral or
theological implications to this language, however, one must be conscious that the
megalomania that allowed Victor to presume to usurp God's prerogatives in the first
place might just as easily issue in changing the universe to suit the mood of his
mind.