greater claims to my attention
Victor seems to refer to the reasoning that brought him to suspend work
on the female companion to his Creature (3.3.1). Yet, this present rearticulation
of his thinking revises the terms used earlier, substituting what appears to
be a distinction between natural and unnatural life forms, or at least
between a majority and minority class, that many readers would find
invidious because inherently racist. Again, if this is to be construed as an
attempt at honest reassessment, the strained casuistry hints at a slanted
self-exoneration.
