However, as the novel progresses, Victor is driven to borderline insanity by his lust for revenge against the monster.

Victor himself cuts himself from society and commits himself to an animalistic obsession to revenge his family and friends by killing the monster, and the monster likewise contains its cold hearted cruelty that it displayed all throughout the novel. As each of Victor’s family members and friends gets slain by the monster, he becomes more and more inhumane.

“On perceiving me, the stranger addressed me in English, although with a foreign accent. ‘Before I come on board your vessel,’ said he, ‘will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?’ You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a question addressed to me from a man on the brink of destruction… his limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.” (9)

When the final state of Victor is showcased to the reader, Victor is clearly destroyed– both inside and outside. He transitions from an aspiring scientist  to a broken man consumed by his emotions, and motivated by revenge. Victor has himself become an unrecognizable monster who is no longer truly human, and not intrinsically different from the creature he is seeking. Shelley clearly demonstrates this from the first chapter of the novel, showcasing Victor’s ragged appearance, as well as his animalistic determination to follow his creation.