I could not sacrifice the whole human race
Even as Victor demonized his Creature and surrounded his second
creation with imaginings of the direst consequences, it is clear
that in the ensuing months he has inflated this act of
destruction of the second being, transforming what appeared at
the time as an act of passionate homicide into a gesture of
sublime heroism offered in behalf of all of humankind. It is
small wonder Alphone Frankenstein changes the subject: such apparent
delusions of grandeur are highly suspect.
