• and I be alone? The faintly Biblical language in which the Creature speaks is actually derived, and
    it would seem significantly so, from Milton. The vocabulary reflects the scene in
    which Adam names the various, already-mated species of animals, then asks God why
    he should himself be left in solitude. See Paradise Lost 8.389ff. and 8.594. In context,
    then, the Creature is telling Victor that he has broken the contract that God had
    made with Adam.