How does the author employ literary devices to express Victor's complex attitudes towards his situation in volume one, chapter five?

At the beginning of volume one, chapter five, when Victor first beholds "the accomplishment of [his] toils," imagery works together with symbolism to express Victor's horror, anxiety, and pride in his creation.
Shelley uses powerful visual imagery to describe the setting: It is nighttime in November, and Victor sees his creation breathe and open his yellow eye "by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light." The vision that these words are meant to create in the reader's imagination is a horrifying and frightening one, and Shelley continues to describe in gory visual detail Victor's first impressions of the creature: his yellow translucent skin that covers "the work of muscles and arteries beneath . . . his long black hair, his white teeth . . . his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips." The details of this visual imagery are not only terrifying, they are also extremely impressive; Victor has gone to a lot of trouble to gather these body parts and attach them to each other, and he wants his listener to know every minute detail.
The symbol of the "half-extinguished light" represents Victor's complicated success in this situation, as light is a common symbol for knowledge. Victor has displayed extraordinary knowledge in his experiment, but the half-extinguished nature of that light suggests that his knowledge is incomplete. Victor's incomplete understanding of the creature and the implications of his success cause him great anxiety; he does not fully comprehend what he has done, and this realization causes him to experience a great shock.