This illustration appears as a heading for Volume I, Chapter 4, when the creature had just been finished being created by Victor Frankenstein. In the previous chapter, Victor had a God-like complex from his rush of using Galvanism to create life. In this illustration the creature is pushing through the curtains to see his master, his creator, like a child going to see their parents. Once he sees the creature, suddenly that God-like complex that Victor had disappears.