my imagination
At first sight this appears to be an evocation of the imagination more in
line with the normative practices of British Romanticism than earlier ones
have been: the Creature in his isolation takes refuge in an innocent, even
utopian world of his own making, one provided by the creative power of his
imagination. This characteristic, almost more than any other so far
encountered in his educational process, testifies to his fully human
sensibility. From a more analytical perspective, however, such a refuge
of the creative imagination shares the main attributes of Victor's
introverted retreat at Ingolstadt,
even to the point of opening the way
to a sudden, disastrous reversal.
