Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.
Chapter 5 · Victor Frankenstein
Context
Victor declares that no person could bear to look at the creature's face, comparing it to an animated mummy in an attempt to convey its extreme ugliness.
Analysis
Victor's hyperbole—"No mortal could support"—tries to universalize his personal disgust, insisting that anyone would react as he does. But the comparison to a mummy is telling: mummies are preserved corpses, and Victor has essentially created one by stitching together dead tissue, so his horror is less about the creature's objective appearance than about being forced to see the death he used as raw material.
Essay Tip
Use this to argue that Victor's revulsion is a form of denial—he cannot bear to look at the creature because doing so forces him to confront the ethical reality of what he has done (violated graves, assembled corpses) rather than the noble scientific narrative he has been telling himself.