• He is eloquent and persuasive Mary Shelley nicely returns us to the earlier concern with the relationship between
    eloquence and truth, between the representation of action and action itself, well
    aware of how the issue impinges both on her characters (particularly Victor's desire
    to vindicate himself to the world) and on her own art.

    See also I:L4:24 and note; 1831:I:8:31 and note; I:7:5 and note; I:7:13 and note.