Soru

Read the following passage from Chapter 20 of Mary Shelley's novel *Frankenstein* (1818).

(1) I sat one evening in my laboratory. The sun had set, and the moon was just rising from
(2) the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a state of
(3) listless irritability, or endeavoured to think of some subject which might amuse me. I
(4) was now about to create another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she
(5) might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight, for its
(6) own sake, in murder and wretchedness. He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man,
(7) and hide himself in deserts; but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to
(8) become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made
(9) before her creation. They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived
(10) loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when
(11) it came before his eyes in the female form? She also might turn with disgust from him to
(12) the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by
(13) the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species.
(14) Even if they were to leave Europe, and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one
(15) of the first results of those sympathies for which the dæmon thirsted would be
(16) children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth, who might make the
(17) very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I
(18) a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had
(19) before been moved by the sophistry of the adversary, and indeed I had been pledged to
(20) perform what he had promised; but now for the first time the wickedness of my promise
(21) burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest,
(22) whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the
(23) existence of the whole human race.
(24) I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw by the light of
(25) the moon the dæmon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me,
(26) where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me. Yes, he had followed me in my
(27) travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge on the wide
(28) deserts; and he now came to mark my progress, and claim the fulfilment of my promise.
(29) As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery.
(30) I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him,
(31) and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch
(32) saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and,
(33) with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.

In the passage, Victor Frankenstein's sudden destruction of the creature he is working on (lines 30–31) is best understood as the resolution of an internal conflict between his