“Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Justine died, she rested; and I was alive. The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove.” page 75

This passage shows that is fearful of what he has created and regrets working so diligently to create the monster. At this point in the book he believes that the monster that he spent so much time to create killed his younger brother. Even worse than that, since the monster is not known by the world he cannot blame it, and the innocent house maid and family friend Justine is convicted and killed for the crime. He has seen the devastation that the twin deaths have caused and most of the family except for his cousin Elizabeth has accepted that Justine is the killer, which adds more guilt and despair to Victor. At this point he is wondering what his family would do if he, Victor the man the family “centers all their hopes in”, was the true murderer of William and Justine. He doesn’t even blame the monster anymore, he secretly takes full responsibilites for the act. Adding to this despair is the fact that up to this point he believed that he was rid of the monster, after coming back and not seeing it in his chambers. It seems as if his mind is faultering, and he is starting to go a bit crazy after all of the events and he is beginning to believe that he himself is the monster. He says things like “I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer” which show that although seperated physically he believes that he and the monster are the same.