Walter indicates David's fallibility by pointing out his mistaken identification of the author of the poem "Ozymandias" as Lord Byron, when it was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Among the ironies of David not being familiar with the poet is that Shelley was the husband of Mary Shelley, who wrote the novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", in which a man-made creature educates himself, grows intelligent, and comes to hate his creator; as David has. Conversely, David himself could be analogous to Frankenstein, and suffer a similar fate by his own "creation" growing beyond his control.
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