This illustration appears as a heading for Volume II, Chapter 8, when the Creature has just been rejected by the DeLacy family and driven into the woods. In the previous chapter, the Creature reveals himself to the family and becomes enraged by their reaction to him, which includes both physical and emotional abuse. Felix DeLacy has beaten him with a stick, Agatha faints, and Safie runs away, frightened by his appearance. The Creature reacts violently to this rejection in Chapter 8, despairing of ever being accepted by anyone, and once alone in the forest, he becomes like a wild beast” and…