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This also gives insight into his constant need to bring people to life. This want clearly comes from the death of his mother and his respect for her. This death was Shelly's way of foreshadowing the death and destruction of the rest of the novel. "The first misfortune of my life occurred- an omen, as it were, of my future misery," (24). This quote specifically says "first," as if to apply that there will be many more to come. .
Late one night Victor begins to create the ultimate being/monster that would soon overcome his life and ruin anything that he had ever loved or cared about. He isolates himself from his friends and family while creating this being, and his fixation begins to overcome his life and in correlation grows very sick. Finally one cold and dreary night the monster comes alive and in that instant Victor's life is forever changed. As soon as the monster takes its first step Victor knows that what he has done would never be forgiven, it was pure evil. It is inevitable that something terrible or drastic is bound to happen whenever it becomes cold, dreary, or miserable outside. This symbolism in the novel relates closely to Victor and the guilt he feels every time the monster creates more destruction either by murder or solely his presence.
"Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly the; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived," (35). .
He is a terrible man for creating such a monster, but he is not completely evil, for his initial plan was not to create a being that would kill but rather preserve life. He goes through lots of denial after Justine and William's deaths and decides to take revenge on the monster. Victor is approached with a problem that follows him through most of the novel, the strict secrecy he has with the monster.