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they all died by my hands This is a further instance in which Victor's new level of candor is striking in its
unblinking justice. Although it is easy to dismiss this language as characteristically
hyperbolic and histrionic, to do so without maintaining a regard for the intensification
of his self-understanding would be unjust. The sense of connectedness he now acknowledges
with his Creature will become the distinguishing feature of the last movement of the
novel.