Frankenstein’s ‘creature’ is a most interesting character.
Compared with the average man, he’s bigger, faster, stronger, fitter, more
agile, and tolerates a much higher range of heat and cold. In cerebral terms,
he’s high-minded, compassionate, emotional and highly intelligent. On the
downside, rejection can turn his emotional nature dark and provoke acts of obscene and irrational
vengeance.
Notwithstanding the occasional severe lapse, however, he’s a veritable
demi-god compared with the wretch Victor Frankenstein. And most
interestingly of all, he’s vegetarian (quote: ‘I do not destroy the lamb and
the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient
nourishment.’)
This must say a lot about his real creator, Mary Shelley,
mustn’t it? It must.
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