#From his childhood to his mother's dying wish

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I do have to say that one detail of Victor's first nail in the coffin of his illness is how before he finally collapses from exhaustion, is how his wild laughter, then his following calls for Clerval could be interpreted as a horrified wife suffering from "hysteria" calling for her husband's protection.

Victor created the creature as a scientific experiment to bring life from the cold claws of death. Yet by making the creature "from scratch" instead of reanimating a corpse, he inadvertently put himself into the role of the mother instead of the father.

Victor made the creature with his own hands, selecting beautiful parts, feeling anxiety over the result, and neglecting his health in favor of caring for the parts of the creature. Mimicking the process of motherhood with a scientific view that made Victor feel partly impersonal from the creature, but not enough. After the process Victor feels horrified by his crime against nature personified by his corpse son staring at him in the middle of night, then Victor leaves him to escape from his responsability.

Then, after Victor wandered without any direction, Clerval comes as a beacon of hope to him. Like a light coming to guide Victor in the middle of the darkness. And it feels like it, Victor is so rejoiced that his dear Clerval has finally come to put his horrified mind at ease. Until Victor has to confront his reality once again, but this time Henry's opinion of him is on the line.

After Victor realized that the creature is gone, the last straw of his poor mental sanity is finally broken with cold laughter that horrifies Henry, along with Victor's cries asking him to save him. Then, the two of them stay with eachother for months, with Henry playing the role of worried yet caring husband, and Victor playing the role of ill and fragile wife.