Oh the Irony!
Verbal Irony:
After Victor refuses to create a companion for The Being, it exclaims "You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!’" (154). This is considered ironic because Victor put himself on a pedestal in the beginning of the novel for his attempt to save humanity from death but The Being rips Victor's godliness from him by enduring true suffering and demanding Victor to obey his demands. Another example of verbal irony is when The Being states ominously "'I shall be with you on your wedding-night'" Victor believes that The Being means to kill him on his wedding night and he is focused on the suffering that would cause Elizabeth but in fact The Being is threatening to kill Elizabeth so Victor will know the loneliness he has endured from his very first moment of life (255).
Situational Irony:
An example of situational irony occurs at the beginning of the novel when Victor spends years devoted and obsessed over a creation he ends up despising with every ounce of his being when it is brought to life, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart' (70). Victor has put his life and health on the back burner to create life and as if to mock him he succeeds to create a murderous monster. This brings up another example of irony because The Being was created to help humanity but instead it ends up directly killing the four closest people to Victor to make him suffer and possibly to help him understand the misery that surrounds The Being.
After Victor refuses to create a companion for The Being, it exclaims "You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!’" (154). This is considered ironic because Victor put himself on a pedestal in the beginning of the novel for his attempt to save humanity from death but The Being rips Victor's godliness from him by enduring true suffering and demanding Victor to obey his demands. Another example of verbal irony is when The Being states ominously "'I shall be with you on your wedding-night'" Victor believes that The Being means to kill him on his wedding night and he is focused on the suffering that would cause Elizabeth but in fact The Being is threatening to kill Elizabeth so Victor will know the loneliness he has endured from his very first moment of life (255).
Situational Irony:
An example of situational irony occurs at the beginning of the novel when Victor spends years devoted and obsessed over a creation he ends up despising with every ounce of his being when it is brought to life, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart' (70). Victor has put his life and health on the back burner to create life and as if to mock him he succeeds to create a murderous monster. This brings up another example of irony because The Being was created to help humanity but instead it ends up directly killing the four closest people to Victor to make him suffer and possibly to help him understand the misery that surrounds The Being.