This transforms the story from "don't play God" to "we're all playing God badly, so let's do better." The Creature's choice between vengeance and grace becomes the central human dilemma.

What's beautiful about this reading is that forgiveness becomes not about absolving a perfect being who doesn't need it, but about accepting imperfection in ourselves and our "creators" so we can move forward. It's almost Buddhist in its acceptance of suffering and impermanence.

And if Victor represents the divine... then maybe divinity is just as messy, fallible, and learning-as-it-goes as we are

By making Victor so recognisably flawed - driven by grief, making impulsive decisions, then fleeing from the consequences - del Toro strips away the mythic distance we usually place between creator and creation.