He’s not a distant scholar but a satyr, rooted in the body, lusting after his future sister-in-law, eating like a starving man, hungrily performing his vivisections and surgeries

He is obsessed with giving birth but has no interest in being maternal. Where Shelley’s Frankenstein is ruled by fear, del Toro’s is governed by Byronic self-aggrandizement. He does not run from the Creature; he imprisons, abuses, and attempts to murder it, furious at its perceived deficiencies.

bellicose