my enemy
Here Victor has not only demonized his Creature but has cast him in an
adversarial role, not acknowledging at this point that hatred can be as
powerful a passion as love and that antagonism can define a relationship
with as enduring bonds as those produced through affection. That this
most distant of objectified namings coincides with an almost hysterical
sense of relief, indeed of liberation, for Victor suggests the subtlety
of Mary Shelley's psychological
understanding. This is a moment of major
moral significance for the development of the novel.
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