• a kind of insanity

    Victor will exactly echo this language at the very end of Volume 2 (Chapter 17 in
    the 1831 edition), in II:9:23.

    As he is superior to other human beings in stature and endurance, and finely tuned
    both emotionally and intellectually, perhaps we should not be surprised at the sublimity
    of the Creature's emotional outburst. Or, at least we should be no more surprised
    than we are at the inarticulate ranting of Victor Frankenstein when they meet on the
    Mer de Glace (II:2:6) or at the fury of Felix De Lacey (II:7:38), both of whom are
    the products of cultivated families and refined educations.