Frankenstein-metaphor

"The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die- was but a type of me." (pg. 64)

Victor is comparing himself to a wounded deer. He feels as though he resembles the deer because he too is in pain and suffering but not in a physical sense. Victor is extremely tired, his brother has died, his father is sick, and he too is still getting over the fact that the monster he created was the murderer. Victor is lost and does not fully how to act anymore. He feels as if he could go to a place and die just as the deer. In the previous lines before this, Victor talks of how the tenderness of friendship nor the beauty of the earth could bring happinesss about him. He is too sad and drained. To further relate to the metaphor, the limbs the deer carries matches with the load of dilemma, guilt, and frustration Victor has in his heart and soul. This only adds on to the readers sympathy for him.