Invocation Nation
While hiking on the Alps Victor yells to the heavens "‘Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life’" (138). This statement is Victor calling upon higher beings or "spirits" to give him some sort of happiness after the death of William and Justine. Victor is seeking a guide to assist him through his troubles and he seeks the comfort of telling his story to the spirits even if they don't exist.
Here Victor is calling upon a higher being to "support' his efforts to kill The Being once and for all "I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me," (317). Victor has no purpose left at this point but to destroy the origins of his pain and avenge the deaths of his friends and family via killing his creation.Victor needs to call upon the supernatural to defeat his super powerful monster, he realizes that he alone cannot defeat his nemesis by physically or mentally because he made sure The Being excelled in those qualities.
The next invocation to the heavens occurs when Victor and Henry are on their trip around Europe, Henry basks in the glory of the natural world whereas Victor can only see death and fear, he cries to the sky "Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness’" (223). Victor in this case is calling out the heavens because it is causing him more pain rather than the support he asked from it earlier in the novel. Victor feels as though the world is now out to "mock" him for his wrong doings.
Here Victor is calling upon a higher being to "support' his efforts to kill The Being once and for all "I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me," (317). Victor has no purpose left at this point but to destroy the origins of his pain and avenge the deaths of his friends and family via killing his creation.Victor needs to call upon the supernatural to defeat his super powerful monster, he realizes that he alone cannot defeat his nemesis by physically or mentally because he made sure The Being excelled in those qualities.
The next invocation to the heavens occurs when Victor and Henry are on their trip around Europe, Henry basks in the glory of the natural world whereas Victor can only see death and fear, he cries to the sky "Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness’" (223). Victor in this case is calling out the heavens because it is causing him more pain rather than the support he asked from it earlier in the novel. Victor feels as though the world is now out to "mock" him for his wrong doings.