• I was alone Victor ironically echoes the reflection of the Creature, as he contemplates the domestic
    happiness of the De Lacey household, on his contrasting solitude. The diction the
    Creature used at the point—"no Eve soothed my sorrows"—would suggest that it was then
    that he began to conceive the plan for a mate that here comes to a disastrous conclusion.
    (See II:7:11).