Where Victor hedges, the Creature counters: as "evil passions" the phrase Victor employed
four paragraphs before, will disappear within an ambience of sympathy, so (as "vices")
they are the product of solitude. Again, we hear the resonance of the title of Percy
Bysshe Shelley's "Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude," published a few months before
Frankenstein was begun (see II:8:21 and note).