te a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede." . . .
"I do refuse it, I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world! Begone!. I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent" (Shelley 123).
As a matter of fact, Victor has already gone too far. More, he is already base in his own eyes, and he has created what he has become--like the monster, a wicked, deformed creature as far as the moral consequences of actions are concerned? The monster proceeds to vow Victor's destruction,
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