tortured the living animal
The details of this paragraph are all intended to be ugly and repulsive
to the reader, but this quick reference has a particular force to it,
reminding us that the Shelley household was vegetarian. The torturing of
animals in medical experimentation would have been felt by Mary Shelley
to be thoughtless cruelty. It is ironic, and clearly not intentional on
Victor Frankenstein's part, that his Creature turns out also to be a
vegetarian.
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