1. It’s been a while, but I believe there’s a good possibility he said this more to himself than the room. He’s a little delirious by this point anyway. Maybe he did say it to others and they did not believe him? Just accepted his crazy

2. The expedition to the north pole? I think Victor knew the monster was after him alone, and would not do others harm. So, beyond that end, he being selfish. But maybe not if you consider… I forget why he was going to the north pole. Was it not to find and kill the monster?

So kinda selfish kinda selfless.

3. Victor has always been very concerned about himself and his own image. Of course he was too narrow sighted to realize the monster was going to kill his wife, he’s intelligent but he’s not that intelligent. Of course a large part of the theme of the novel is about man’s ability to create without ability to predict the repercussions of his actions. “Man” and “his” are a bit gendered: such is to say that humans do not have the intelligence that they think they have, nor were we ever meant to play god. It’s a theme that’s been more and more supported since after its publication: all kinds of technologies have been produced since the 1850s or whenever the book was published that the inventor could not have possibly fathomed the fall out of such inventions: to be really lazy, AI, the internet, and the automobile.

Is a Streetcar Named Desire a book? I thought it was a play, and am interested in it and would probably read it if it is a book. Guess I’ll have to look it up again