what can disturb our tranquillity
Elizabeth's faith that a retreat from the world would allow the two of
them a relief from the buffeting of experience is understandable, if sadly
ill-placed. The ensuing chapters seem deliberately designed to test this
hope both in their exemplary tale of a collective retreat (involving not
just the DeLacey's and Safie, but the Creature as well) and in the very
fact that, themselves taking place in an almost inaccessible retreat, they
present Victor Frankenstein with a moral crisis of a kind he has never
known and is unprepared for.
