It was like the crocodile who got the taste of Captain Hook.

[The women's perspective implied in the word] brides ... Anne Mellor, a Mary Shelley scholar, comments that Dr. Frankenstein seems to want to do away with women.

She can only shout, and she can only die,

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

A LITTLE TASTE.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.