scovered that while there is a similar motivation for creating, there is also a diametric difference in His motivation to that of Victor's. It is very obvious through the Bible that God created selfishly in that He wanted a creation in which to express His love. God had nothing to prove, nothing to gain nor an ego to build. Because love is at the heart of His nature He wanted to demonstrate that love to something and someone. Thus He created the heavens and the earth and placed man in it.
             Not only do we see a contrast to Victor's motivation for creation but also to his process of creating life. Because Victor's motivation was to achieve his selfish desires, he had no underlying extrinsic value for his creation. There was no compassion and paternal investment involved in the creation process. There was nothing more than the eerie, clinical coldness that surrounded the creation activity. "Frankenstein mistakenly substitutes cold, abstract, scientific logic for the warmth of human friendship and love" (Freidman 183). Victor was not concerned with the emotional and aesthetic environment in which his creation would be brought into existence. It was of no importance to him because he had no loving concern for the life he was creating. Interestingly, the monster's drive to revenge and murder resulted from his intense desire to obtain exactly what Victor has so careless rejected: Friendship and love (Freidman 184). Victor's concern was to simply gather the necessary co!
             mponents and assemble a corpse by which to bring about the creation of life. To Victor, the monster's anatomy was nothing more than a housing place for the propagation of life. David Ketterer describes the clinical feel of Victor's process. Broadly speaking, the creation of the monster takes place in three stages. First, Frankenstein has the task of collecting what Mary's Introduction terms `the component parts', the various limbs and organs that go to make a human being. S...