"For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eathn into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self." (page 117).
The literary term here is symbolism. At first, I thought that Victor literally meant that he had chains on him, so then I was looking back like I had completelly missed something. Then, I read and thought about it. I realized that the chains symbolized the hold that the creature has on Victor. Victor wants to be happy and live his life, but the monster's words and threats haunt his every move and thought. He starts to feel normal again, and then poof. He rememberst that he must fulfill his promise in order to rid of these thoughts and the monster all together. He longs to forget his promise, but there is no way around it. He has the duty to do this, but he cannot bring himself to complete the task. He knows he has an obligation, but he does not want to do it, which shows him actually contemplating creating again. This is something that he had not done before when creating the current monster.
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