eight feet in height
Victor's admission of his arbitrarily foolish decision would be almost
comic did it not subsume such tragic consequences. In his very hubris
over the "creation of a human being," Victor unthinkingly excludes the being
from a humanity that is defined by its dependence on shared characteristics,
alienating him in advance through a structural flaw of design. For all his
preoccupation with the destiny he thinks controls his own life, Victor
seems quite unconscious of how wholly his assumption of the role of God will
determine the course of this being's existence.
