At the end of Volume II, Chapter II, the creature leads Victor onto "the ice" where the "air was cold." He has appealed to Victor, as a creature to his creator, attempting to impress upon Victor his own original innocence and benevolence, and his misery as a result of his being utterly friendless and alone. Victor's own response to the creature is one proof that he meets with hatred and fear everywhere he goes. The...
At the end of Volume II, Chapter II, the creature leads Victor onto "the ice" where the "air was cold." He has appealed to Victor, as a creature to his creator, attempting to impress upon Victor his own original innocence and benevolence, and his misery as a result of his being utterly friendless and alone. Victor's own response to the creature is one proof that he meets with hatred and fear everywhere he goes. The creature promises that it will be up to Victor whether or not he "quit[s] forever the neighbourhood of man" and is rendered harmless for the remainder of his life or whether he vows to wreak vengeance on Victor until he achieves his creator's ruin.
Once they reach the creature's hut on the ice, he tells Victor his history. In choosing this locale for their meeting, Shelley foreshadows their final months together in the Arctic. It is there that the creature will ultimately achieve the complete ruination of Victor by weakening and depleting him to the point that he will no longer be able to survive.
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