Victor has begun the process of creating a new female creature, when he realizes that he had been in a similar position three years previously: "I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it with the bitterest remorse.” This guilt forces him to reexamine his past and present situations. He is distraught at the idea that the new creation may be worse than his first creation. The new creature may not agree to the promises made between Victor and the monster, and he ponders that “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.” Could he continue his work in good conscience? Perhaps his evil work could endanger the entire human race. Shelley does not tell the reader how Victor got the pieces to create a new creature.
Victor, giving up the work, says “[I] made a solemn vow in my heart never to resume my labours.” The monster returns to Victor’s laboratory to find out why Victor ruined his mate. The two argue, and the monster issues a threat of “I shall be with you on your wedding-night.” The monster will fulfill his warning later in the novel.
