... himself as "unremitting", "dedicated", "tortured", "resistless", "frantic", and "engaged" (33). He admits that he had become "pale with study", "emaciated with confinement" and that he was so focused that he "lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit" (34). His father writes to him, rebuking him for not corresponding. One might dismiss all of this by saying that it ... sinking deeper into despair. This natural and uncontrollable process also suggests the creature sinking closer to hell in his transformation from good to evil; Shelley's use of this imagery once again reflects t...

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