and I be alone?
The faintly Biblical language in which the Creature speaks is actually
derived, and it would seem significantly so, from Milton. The vocabulary
reflects the scene in which Adam names the various, already-mated species
of animals, then asks God why he should himself be left in solitude. See
Paradise Lost 8.389ff. and 8.594. In context, then, the Creature
is telling Victor that he has broken the contract that God had made with
Adam.
