The word "monster" in itself has been changed through
editions. The original manuscript used the word "daemon", others uses "creature", and
some modern versions use "monster."
All imply one same
thing: Aberration. Something so unexpected, unpredictable, primal, and primitive that it
shakes the foundation of our reality.
In the
interchangeable semantics of the word itself, the actual demon, creature, and monster of
unpredictable, primal, and primitive behavior we find in the story is definitely Victor,
who acted upon his desperate urges to have a power to create, which is an impossibility.
Also, his treatment of the monster, the hungers of ambition which seized him, and the
fact that he challenged nature and the sanctity of life itself, makes him a bigger
creature, monster, and demon than the creation that grew out of his
aberration.
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