"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -Great God! his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips..." (page 35)
In the quote above, Victor describes the features of the creature in full detail. I could literally visualize exactly how this creature looked. I also find the way he describes the creature to be very ironic. Before the creature is created, Victor talks about how the creature would "bless him (Victor) as the creator and source." (page 32). I discussed this in the previous blog about how this all changed. When the creature is created, Victor selected his features as "beautiful," as stated in the quote above. However, when the creature comes to life, Frankenstein is horrified by what he had created, and he sees no beauty in the creature at all. Victor described the entire process of creating the creature in full detail. Actually, he describes his journeys, his encounters with others, his family, and basically everything in full detail. Everything is illustrated beautifully. I don't really see the point as to why Frankenstein went into so much detail. However, everything is so evenly interconnected. When Frankenstein began his story when the chapters begin in this novel, he starts with his family background. Again, Frankenstein goes back to his father and how his mother married. This leads to Victor being born and Victor's siblings becoming part of the family. This leads to Victor being excited about learning, which leads to his experiments, which leads to the creature being born. Yes, it all makes sense. However, Victor's background is that simple. The creature is not even born until Chapter V, though. There is so much fluff before the meat of the story really begins. As a reader, this is kind of aggravating, but that's okay. The detail is amazingly expressive and beautiful. I just would prefer that we would cut to the chase already.
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