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my fiendish enemy.

Victor first designates his creature as an "enemy" shortly after his creation (1.4.6), and the Creature, in turn, after the collapse of his aspirations with the DeLacey's thinks of Victor in a like capacity (2.8.9). Throughout this last chapter, however, Victor has conceptualized his Creature wholly in adversarial terms, again and again referring to him as an enemy.