Soon after Victor creates the monster and it kills William, Victor laments the creature's creation, referring to it as "my spirit released from the grave" (Shelley 51). Although Frankenstein may refer to the creature as a spirit due to the fact that it is essentially a reanimated corpse, he may also refer to the creature as the fulfillment of his unconscious wishes. The creature, in cursing its creator, refers to its “'form [as if it were] a dirty kind of yours'” (Shelley 91). The creature here talks about himself as if he were almost the same as Victor – something similar but even more repulsive. This is exactly what the creature is if it represents those desires of Victor that cannot be revealed, even to himself. In killing many people in Victor's family and also in Clerval, the creature enacts Victor's unconscious desire to free himself from his family; when Victor creates the monster, he isolates himself from other humans and stops responding to his family's letters (Shelley 36). Until the creation of the creature, Victor desperately longed for the “glory that would accompany the discovery, if [he] could succeed in banishing disease from the human frame and rendering man invulnerable to all but violent death!” (23). From these intense feelings comes the desire to leave a mark on the world by making a great discovery