Frankenstein

When the monster leaves Victor at the shack where he was building the monster, the creature leaves him with a promise, "I shall be with you on your wedding night" (123). Victor believes that he will be murdered on this night. However, the monster and the audience knows differently. Victor is alive and recounting the story with Walton. Therefore, the monster targets Elizabeth. There seems to be a poetic justice to this. Victor barred the creature's way to love, and so it shall be with Victor. He lost the love of his life when he refused to create the female. After his wife's death, his perspective about the monster changed. He no longer wanted to be the hunted but the hunter. He desired revenge of his wife, his brother, his father, and his best friend. This dramatically changed his motive. He no longer had people to love except his brother Ernest, so he wanted to vanquish his foe. He had no love left in his life, so he was consumed again by an obsession. He obsessed over his revenge. No matter the hunger, thirst, or exhaustion, Victor would travel with the monster until his last breath.