• my fiendish enemy. Victor first designates his creature as an "enemy" shortly after his creation (I:4:12),
    and the Creature, in turn, after the collapse of his aspirations with the DeLacey's
    thinks of Victor in a like capacity (II:8:30). Throughout this last chapter, however,
    Victor has conceptualized his Creature wholly in adversarial terms, again and again
    referring to him as an enemy.