Discuss Victor and his creature in Frankenstein as a symbol

when he says, "I might in process of time (although I now found it possible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption" (933). Therefore, in regard to his ideology of Colonization, Victor sets out to assemble body parts from corpses and creates a monster in the heat of his madness. His ignorance and irresponsibility as a colonizer comes into view when he disowns his creation and abandons it because the creature is hideous and wretched. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form . . . I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! . . . I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation: but now I had finished, the beauty of the dream
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