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Explain the following quotation: "[Waldman] meant to please, and he tormented me. I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view, those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death"
Though Victor once adored science, the same passion he had is also the same thing that brings about his downfall. Seeing scientific instruments is torture because he knows that he created something horrible (and he used his scientific knowledge to accomplish this)