had no power to produce it."
             "A sudden light broke in upon me – a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that it illustrated"
             The creation and birth of the monster dominates Victor as he works within his dwellings "workshop of filthy creation" the tension builds
             "I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret"
             Shelley shows how Victor is now God with the power to inject life, the creation lies at the feet of the creator, religion playing a major part within these few lines.
             "A spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."
             Irony and contrast plays throughout the whole book, Shelley show rejection and connection with the parent through the reaching of a hand, like a child reaching for help. The monster reaches for Victor; later Victor reaches for his Father through the bars of jail.
             "His jaw opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out"
             "The arrival of my father. I stretched out my hand to him and cried"
             It crosses the gender barrier also as Victor (main protagonist) gives birth to the creature and rejects it. (At this point one should look towards Shelly's own relationship between mother and daughter) This role reversal attaches a feminist view within the book, Victor is the sole parent/creator and is responsible for the up bringing of the "creature"
             "Yet you are my creator; detest and spurn me, thy creature to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us"
             Again intruding on the authors own life the book undertakes the harrowing subject of loss of life which is a reoccurring action throughout the book as it is in life. The loss comes in the form of natural to murder.
             The death of Victors much loved mother:
             "That the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of ...