Create your monster!

Hello to everyone! Here it is  Mary Shelley talking again!
Today, I would like to propose an activity that I think is very interesting for you. Let me give you some instruction on how to proceed with this work and at the end, you will see the final result. 
The first thing that you should do is reading carefully the following passage from my novel: 
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. (Shelley, 1818)


Now, it is the time of the main activity: Imagine that you are Victor Frankenstein and you want to create a living dead man or women (as described above), can you describe how she or he would be?
You can use the passage as an inspiration for your writing (15 lines maximum).

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