There are several implications of the monsters promise to be with his creator on the latter’s wedding night. On the surface, it is retaliation for Frankenstein’s unwillingness to allow his creation to have a wedding night of his own by refusing to create a mate for the nameless-creature. At the same time, Shelley uses this repeated phrase as the vocalization of the monsters desire to be close to someone, as there is obviously a unique intimacy between only two people that takes place on a wedding night. By stating that he will be there on the wedding night, the monster implies that Frankenstein’s beloved Elizabeth will not be – a foreshadowed promise that he later follows through with.
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