After his release from prison where he was imprisoned on false charges of murdering Henry Clerval. After being released, he explains his unique supernatural circumstances to the magistrate who refuses to help. Shelley takes advantage of this moment to establish what allows Victor to definitively overcome his nervous fever and attack the monster. When Victor exclaims, “My revenge means nothing to you; yet, even if I accept that it is a vice, I confess that it is the only and consuming passion of my soul” (Shelley, 148). This quote proves that Victor's new will to live is based on an internal commitment to destroying the evil he is responsible for unleashing on the world, thereby restoring the natural order. Shelly demonstrates this new motivation when Frankenstein states that his determination to kill the monster is “the one and consuming passion of my soul” (Shelley, 148). Just as nature restored Victor earlier in the novel, his newfound passion for destroying his unnatural creation now restores him to health, in his quest to rectify his destruction so