
Laudanum is an opium based pain killer that was popular during the Victorian Age. Frankenstein falls ill after traumatic events throughout the novel. This is his way of escaping the pain he is going through. Sleep and sickness does not rid him of his sins, but delays him from thinking about them.
~Harding, Stephen"Victorians and Laudanum" Victorian's Secrets. 2000. August 27, 2008. <http://drugs.uta.edu/laudanum.html>
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