• apparition of the monster The undertone in which the text, as Walton reasserts his control over it, questions
    the statements of its narrators continues here as Walton twice—and in the formulation
    of a logical proof ("conviction of the truth" . . . "Such a monster has then really
    existence")—thoughtlessly borrows Victor's diction to describe the Creature. Careful
    readers will remember that the "apparition . . . seen from our ship" was described
    very differently at the time (I:L4:3).