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This farewell blends triumph and tragedy, as the creature welcomes death as a “funeral pile” where he’ll “exult in agony”—a perverse victory over a life of suffering. “Burning miseries” echo his eternal torment, while “ashes swept into the sea” symbolize erasure, a final escape from a world that rejected him. The uncertain “spirit will sleep in peace” hints at fragile hope beneath his resolve, undercut by the haunting “if it thinks, it will not surely think thus”—a raw admission that even oblivion is unknowable. His “sad and solemn enthusiasm” captures the paradox of his end: not a defeat, but a weary assertion of control over the only thing left to claim—his own destruction. In these last words, the monster transcends his label, becoming a tragic figure who finds “peace” only in ceasing to be—a searing conclusion to a tale of humanity denied, and the high cost of a life spent longing to be seen.