Frankenstein, Mary Shelly

Within chapter five, Frankenstein completed the monster. Terror, which was his first reaction, erupted from his mind. He stated, "I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived (Shelly, 36)." He alludes to Dante, who was an author of Dante's Inferno. Dante fashioned a new, detailed hell through which his character traveled. Because Frankenstein constructed a monster, he thought he was going through hell. He believed that his situation is worse than anything that the author could imagine. Frankenstein ran away from his creation. Eventually, the creature left the dormitory, and Frankenstein was relived not to see him. However, Frankenstein formed a foundation for a new hell even worse than his wildest imagination.