like the archangel
The network of subtle allusiveness that has quietly identified Victor
Frankenstein with Milton's Satan in
Paradise Lost here rises to the
surface of the text. Victor refers specifically to the climax of Satan's
soliloquy on Mount Niphates:
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;
And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
-- IV.75-79
