In Volume 3, Chapter 2 (Chapter 19) of
Frankenstein Victor and Clerval arrive in Scotland; however, Victor
tells his friend that he wishes to continue the tour of Scotland alone and may be gone
about a month. He entreats Henry not to accompany him because it is only by being alone
that he "may again feel" himself. Of course, Victor seeks a solitary place where he can
complete the creation of a female creature for his already existing creature, a creature
he has agreed to create in order to keep the creature from killing
again.
For his work, Victor chooses a remote Scottish
village with only three huts and a few "miserable cows" because he does not want anyone
watching his activites; besides having few people to notice his actions, the village is
on the northern highlands and is hardly more than a rock with high sides that are beaten
continually like rock. When Victor rents two of the three huts, he remarks that no one
pays much attention to him:
As it was, I lived
ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I
gave; so much does suffering blunt even the coarest sensations of
men.
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