Frankenstein Seven

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light." pg. 31

Victor compares himself to the man in the story, The Thousand and One Nights. Shelley uses this link to bridge Victor to another human. He is commonly removed from the presence of other humans, similar to the man in the story. As a scientist, Frankenstein is able to insert life into the reconstructed body he has assembled. He has shut himself away, buried with the dead, always trying to reach the end of the tunnel.