the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me
The sense of the momentous responsibility he has assumed seems for the
moment to have made Victor into a new being. In a curious way, by
recognizing what it is to be God, he becomes more like the sober and
fearful Adam setting out from Eden at the end of Paradise Lost, a
moral being for whom, as the Creature himself has acknowledged in
reference to Byron's Manfred (2.5.6 and note, 2.7.5 and note), knowledge is commensurate with
sorrow.
