His limited reading immediately calls to his mind the mythic model for his profound
alienation, Milton's Satan, establishing a new line of psychological congruence between
the tormented Creature and Victor Frankenstein, who used the identical expression
at the end of Volume I (Chapter 8 in the 1831 edition): see I:7:30 and note. Victor
also makes similar statements in I:4:5 and II:1:1 (and note). The allusion is to Satan's
soliloquy upon Mount Niphates: Paradise Lost, IV.75.