Shelley concludes the narrative by expressing the regrets of Victor once he realized the trail of destruction that was left in his path. Over the course of the novel, Victor adopts a more loving tone once his creature vowed to inflict pain over his loved ones. This phenomenon is illustrated through the deaths of Henry Clerval, which caused him to obtain a “fever...for two months on the point of death,” and his wife Elizabeth that invoked a sense of “agony of despair” within him, resulting in him to pledge that he would bring justice to their avoidable deaths by putting an end to his creation’s life. The monster, however, was brought utter joy with the annihilation that he spawned, even donning a “grin” and “seemed to jeer as with his fiendish
