"And then I thought again of his words- 'I will be with you on your wedding night.'... In that hour I should die, and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice" (123).
Victor believes that the creature is going to kill him on his wedding night. However, the dramatic irony is that the reader knows that the creature is not going to kill Victor, but his new wife. Victor has never been threatened himself by the creature. He himself has never actually been in danger. The creature has been targeting Victor's loved ones. In a form of poetic justice, the creature will kill Elizabeth as revenge for Victor's refusal to make a companion for him.
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