when you . . . danger
Compare with this the stanza quoted from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to
characterize Victor's precipitous walk the morning after the Creature came
to life (1.4.4 and note). Victor's sense of
helplessness, which will soon reach an extremity, becoming transformed
into a catatonic physical state, will increasingly dominate the novel's
late events.
