Victor is struck by the enormity of what he has done when he sees the ugly creature moving – animated
It looks like a blasphemy of human life (created in the perfect image of God ie think of how we respond to images of babies) because it IS a blasphemy – it was not created by God, in the image of God
What is the monster created from? If we are in the image of God, what is the monster the image of, or the embodiment of?
- it is the embodiment of Man’s lust for power over God – our desire to beat Nature, to beat Death and surpass the boundaries we are “supposed to” have
- This concept is still a huge discussion point in our lives – we live in a culture where this argument is being played out every day
- Paradox – if religion (The Bible) is taken as truth, we are created in the image of God, therefore we too are creators – we do what he did – we were designed to do this
- Victor is grappling with the biggest issues that a human can deal with – DEATH, LIFE, MEANING, SELF, etc
- And when he looks into the eyes of the monster, what does he see?
- He looks into a world where too many doors are kicked open – he is shaken to his core by the reality of what he has done – he has done something deeply WRONG, totally against his humanness – ie women make babies, in a specific way, and he has broken that, broken “God’s plan”, broken “Nature’s plan” and the realization hurt him – like Lady Macbeth
- he goes crazy for awhile in Chapter 5 – gets healed back to “normal” by Clerval
- the monster is rejected by his God, by his mother, and he is “forsaken”
- what we get into now is a whole new area of thought – what happens when we are rejected by our creator? By our mother?
- This will have a cost in the monster – ie calling him a monster will have a cost – “self-fulfilling prophecy”
- We live up to the definitions we are raised in - this will come back to haunt Victor - literally
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