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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9608950">This isn't entirely the case. Victor describes the scene pretty vividly:Shortly after that the creature appears in his bedchamber and it is the event that cements his rejection of his creation:Then he spends a bunch of time convalescing with Henry in the wake of the incident. Now the above isn't the monster getting soliloquies like he does later in the book, but he figures in this section and it isn't as barren of description of the resurrection as people often recollect (especially when they are contrasting it with the movies). I think this scene is also very important for laying the foundation of the sympathetic treatment the creature gets later in the book. Also while the book is nothing like the lab scene in the movies (I think those are based on a play), there is a lot of material that can help inform the reader's imagery of the lab and the construction of a new man. For example, and this is different a little between the 1931 and 1818 edition, but the importance of lightning and galvanism is mentioned early in the story and it is implied that plays a role. Victor also talks about where he gets the parts from. This portion of the book for example gives you an idea of where the parts were coming from (and not all of them human it seems):</blockquote>