"Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery." - Victor, page 154.
The quote I have used above is a good example of the literary technique called personification. Victor is describing his emotions of despair as if they are some kind of living being. When he says that "despair had indeed almost secured her prey," he really means that his feelings of sadness were really close to killing him. He feels like he could just die from the emotions he is feeling. This use of personification is good at demonstrating that Victor's life is finally about to come to an end. I honestly have been extremely surprised that the monster hadn't killed Victor earlier in the book, especially since most of his anger has been focused on Victor. After everything that happened, I was a little irritated that Victor died from causes he placed upon himself, rather than a huge fight between him and the creature. The whole book seemed to be leading up to a great brawl between the two beings, yet it ended in no less than Victor dying of more natural causes and the creature admitting he was wrong and running off to the North Pole to kill himself.
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