"I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew."
-page 121
There are many important events in the story, but if I had to choose a climax of the novel, it would be this quote. At this point, there is no turning back for either Victor or the creature. Victor decides that he will do nothing to help the creature and will certainly not create another destructive being. He wants nothing to do with the creature anymore. This is also when the creature decides that if he cannot be happy, than Victor does not deserve to be happy. The creature decides that he will do everything in his power to make Victor as miserable as him. In this scene, the creature makes the threat of Victor's wedding night. Victor assumes that the creature is going to kill him, but the creature knows all along that he is going to kill Elizabeth and wants to destroy the people that Victor loves. From this point in the story, pretty much everything else is down hill. The point has been made clear that the creature and Victor will not make ammends or compromise with the other. Destruction and death ensues until the end of the story.
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