Against the very mundane cruelty of a miscarriage of human justice, Victor seems to
feel obliged to inflate the terms as a means of assuaging his guilt. His rhetoric
transcendentalizes his Creature, who can thus be conceived as beyond human suffering,
as maliciously sporting with life. With a nice irony, the Creature will use exactly
the same terms on Victor when they later meet: see II:2:7 and note.