Frankenstein: The Creator's Faults In The Creation

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overlooks the
seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when something
is made from parts of different corpses and put together. Were he
thinking more clearly he would have noticed monster's hideousness.

Another physical aspect of the monster which shows a fault in
Frankenstein is its immense size. The reason that Frankenstein gives for
creating so large a creature is his own haste. He states that ,"As the
minuteness of the parts formed a great hinderance to my speed, I resolved,
contrary to my first intention, to make a being gigantic in stature ..."
(52). Had Frankenstein not had been so rushed to complete his project he
would not have had to deal with such a physically intimidating creature.
Tropp however states that ambition may have had a role in the size of the
creation. He says that the creation is "born of Frankenstein's
megalomania" (81). This may indeed be true as the inventor states "A new
species would bless me as its creator and source; ...

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response to the `thing' he has created is solely in
aesthetic terms..." (Oates 75).

Throughout the novel Frankenstein continually insists that "The
tortures of Hell are too mild a vengeance for all [the creature's] crimes"
(95). Frankenstein is incorrect, however in assuming that the creature is
inherently evil. Mary Lowe-Evans states that ,"Nothing in Frankenstein is
more unexpected than the Creature's sensitivity" (52). His benevolent
nature described in his story is meant to show that he is not the beast
that Frankenstein has made him out to be (Lowe-Evans 52). The creature is
intrigued by the lives of the people that he finds living in a small cabin,
the De Laceys. The ...

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