utter carelessness . . . second
Again, as in his shock over the mistreatment of Justine Moritz in
the first volume (1.7.9),
Victor's innate sense of decency is evoked to complicate our
recognitions: in this particular case, that his own medical
carelessness was implicit in his creation of a being with
monstrous features who could not function within a conventional
social format (1.3.5) and that
his uncaring brutality has been recently marked in the wanton
destruction of the second creature on whom he had been working in
the preceding chapter (3.3.2).
