One example
of mystery and suspense in chapter 5 concerns what has happened to the horrible creaturehas
created. The last we see of it after Victor has recoiled from it, repelled over how it looks
when alive, is this:
He [] held up the curtain of the bed;
and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered
some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not
hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed
downstairs.
After this encounter, Victor runs into his
friend Clerval. He then has a fit and nearly dies, kept alive only by Clerval's nursing. It is
spring by the time Victor returns to his senses and regains his health. The mystery is: where
has the creature been all these months between November and spring? What has he been doing? The
suspense comes from the reader wondering when he will be encountered again.
We are left with only...
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