As earlier, Victor's histrionic sputtering, even as it testifies at once to the explosion
of long repressed emotion and to his incapacity to handle the situation with which
he is suddenly confronted, is also revelatory on a conceptual level. His mind is totally
bound by the binary opposition of God and Satan in which he assumes not just creative
godhead but also the right of judgment and particularly that of damnation, appointing
this "fiend" and "devil" to the "tortures of hell."