this question, even if none would construe the passion that consumes Victor as in
any conventional sense, whether erotic or paternal, that of love. Whatever the problems
of the fictional time scheme, it is apparent that for the past four-and-a-half years,
which is the lifetime of Victor's offspring, not to neglect the months of concentrated
labor that went into his gestation, Victor has been obsessed with the Creature to
the neglect, even destruction, of any other relationship.