and note), so here the reader is brought short by the Creature's assertion that his
series of acts have been freely willed. The very adjective he employs embodies an
internalization of Victor's demonization of him. Although he certainly bears responsibility
for his acts through an abiding remorse, at the same time we are aware that he has
been conditioned into the state of the demonic. To adapt the logic of his own rhetoric,
negated as a human being, he has been recreated as a demon by the relentless scapegoating
he has suffered.