The Creature Murders Elizabeth on Her Wedding Night — Frankenstein

On their wedding night, Victor sends Elizabeth to their room while he searches the inn for the creature, armed with a pistol. He hears her shrill scream and rushes in to find her lifeless body thrown across the bed, her head hanging down with the creature's murderous marks on her neck. As Victor grieves over her corpse, he looks up to see the creature grinning at the window, pointing with fiendish mockery at Elizabeth's body before leaping into the lake and escaping. Victor fires his pistol but misses, and the subsequent search proves futile as most companions believe the figure was conjured by Victor's imagination.

The creature fulfills his promise to be with Victor on his wedding night by destroying Victor's last hope for happiness and human connection, demonstrating that Victor fundamentally misunderstood the threat. This murder completes the creature's systematic destruction of everyone Victor loves, transforming Victor's fear into an all-consuming desire for revenge that will drive the remainder of the novel. The creature's mocking gesture at the window reveals his deliberate cruelty and his success in making Victor as isolated and miserable as he himself has been.