Although the description here is intended to be amusing and to reflect an adolescent
student's viewpoint of his elder, behind it lie serious and even, perhaps, irresolvable
issues for the novel: particularly, the extent to which our perspectives are implicitly
molded by aesthetic criteria. By this standard the Creature whom Victor will create
in his laboratory becomes a proof text for every figure who depends upon sight for
knowledge. Even if familiarity, in the case of Victor Frankenstein, allows him in
time to overlook the ugliness of Professor Krempe or of the Creature while in the
process of his construction, it is clear from the repetitive emphasis on Krempe's
size that Victor has an aversion to littleness. In contradistinction to Krempe, his
Creature will be eight feet tall (I:3:7).