NOTES

Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives

Indicative either of Victor's own deliberate reinterpretation of the Creature as his double in rewording the "inscriptions" left for him, or of the symbiotic way in which the Creature through the experience of revenge now sounds like a second self of Victor's, this phrase recalls the masculinist bravado Victor twice indulges in his impotent rage before the power of the Creature (see II:2:6 and III:3:16).