Chapter 25 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein concludes the novel through Walton's letters. The creature appears at Victor's body and delivers his final monologue—a confession of remorse and degradation mixed with rage. He confesses that his murders brought only anguish, not joy. He declares he will end himself by building a funeral pyre in the Arctic and burning to ashes. He leaps into darkness and is lost forever in the frozen wastes. Read from the 1818 public domain edition.