miserable wretch
By this point in the novel's development, these terms have become
interchangeably shared by Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.
Unconscious of his repetitive language, Victor has named the Creature a
"wretch" on first looking at him (see 1.4.1) and, again upon seeing him a second
time, as the being approaches him across the Sea of Ice (2.2.3). But he likewise refers to himself
by the same term in the last sentence of Volume 1 (1.7.10), and Elizabeth characterizes him
similarly at the beginning of the second volume (2.1.4).
