• I lay for two months It has been less than three years since Victor Frankenstein had been seized with
    a similar "nervous fever" that, after the creation of his being, confined him for
    months (see I:4:17 and note). Mary Shelley emphasizes how severely debilitated his
    physical state has become as a result of the acute psychological stress under which
    he has been laboring and from which no amount of diversion can seem to liberate him.