The Monster Was Born

"He might have spoken but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed downstairs." page 35-36


I found this scene to be very ironic and puzzling. Victor spends all this time researching and planning how he is going to invent this creature. He puts so much time and effort into making it and sacrifices his social life. When he has finally accomplished what he has been working so hard on, he runs away. I repeat, he runs away. This is irony. Definitely the opposite of what I expected to happen which I feel like may be the reason why the author used the irony. The fact that he ran away really irritated me too. Victor had to have some inclination that the monster would come after him, and he made him to be eight feet tall! But to make the situation even more ironic, the monster wasn't even trying to hurt Victor, he was trying to get Victor's attention, like a child seeking their parent's attention.