a black and comfortless sky
After the allusions to hell in these paragraphs the absence of any
conventional sign of heaven is starkly telling. So "hellish" has Victor's
psychological state become that the universe seems to have changed to
reflect it. Even as one posits moral or theological implications to this
language, however, one must be conscious that the megalomania that allowed
Victor to presume to usurp God's prerogatives in the first place might
just as easily issue in changing the universe to suit the mood of his
mind.
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