Creation and divine aspiration

The intertextuality of Frankenstein plays a key role in Shelley’s investigation of the dangers of overstepping moral and natural boundaries. The Creature, as a living thing comprised of dead parts, blurs all distinction between human and non-human, and is therefore entirely unnatural despite being made up of ‘natural’ elements. His monstrous visage and the vicissitudes of his morality further symbolises this unnatural existence and serves to demean Victor’s attempt at creating something that would impress humanity.