Frankenstein - ch. 9-10

The death of Justine causes Victor to become remorseful because of his creation and all it has done. Upon seeing Victor depressed, Alphonse gives Victor advice, "...but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?" Victor believes this advice was no good to him, but I believe it was. Alphonse tells Victor not to let this prevent him from experiencing joy. I believe the events have calloused Victor and made him incapable of experiencing joy. This is advice that is applicable to Victor, but he seems to have disregarded this, blinded by his hatred for his creation. Victor hardly sleeps, like he did during the creation process. He goes on a journey across the mountains and across a glacier. While on the glacier, Victor sees the creature in the distance. The only thing going through Victor's head is that he wants to kill the creature. Then the creature and Victor converse until the creature convinces Victor to follow him to his hut so that he can tell Victor his story. The creature can talk!? I did not really think about that at first.