The elder De Lacey, we will soon learn, is blind.

It is one thing for the Creature to utter a pantheistic oath (previous paragraph),
but to put a second immediately into the mouth of Victor is to emphasize that where
man plays God, he has no other deity to whom to turn to right his injustices but himself.

Here the Creature unconsciously echoes the sentiments of Victor Frankenstein ("if
our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free")
from earlier the same morning of their conversation (II:2:3). That the Creature speaks
of heat where Victor uses "desire" reflects his very first conscious experiences (II:3:3,
II:3:6), but desire is also at this point very much on his mind, as the ensuing paragraphs
will stress.

The seven-year old William seems to be drawing his points of reference from reading
fairy tales and romances. This is of a piece with the experiences of the older members
of the household when they were his age, particularly Henry Clerval, who wrote a fairy
tale at the age of nine and was passionately fond of romances (see I:1:11).

Refuse left over from a meal: given the Creature's fastidious vegetarianism, these
would seem to be part of the "roots and nuts" he goes on to mention as part of his
fare.

However obnoxious the Turk will himself appear within this account, the stress here
is on an arbitrary exercise of tyrannical state power over an individual's civil rights.

Like Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein (I:1:4, I:2:2) and Justine Moritz (I:5:5), not
to forget Clerval (I:4:17) and Walton (I:L4:10), Safie demonstrates her solicitude
and common humanity through nursing.

Numa Pompilius, legendary second king of infant Rome, and Lycurgus, legendary lawgiver
of Sparta in the ninth century B.C., are compared as founding fathers in parallel
accounts by Plutarch. It is possible that the particular emphasis of these Lives contributes
to the Creature's decision, as it were, to become a founding father himself.

Inside Victor's house the Creature had to negotiate around walls and through doors.
Outside he has no such obstacles.

The Creature, pressing his advantage, reminds Victor that the "new species" he has
created is herbivore and therefore in essence essentially non-violent.