As the creature continues to relate his own history to
Victor Frankenstein, he explains how he has learned to speak and to read. Greatly
influenced by the works that he has read, the creature especially alludes to John
Milton's Paradise Lost, with which he has identified himself. In
Chapter 15, the creature tells Victor that he has felt like Adam, who was united to no
other being in existence. However, Adam had been created perfectly by God and was
allowed communion with other beings while he remained alone and helpless. And, after
having read the papers of Victor in which he has recorded the hideous details of his
monster, the creature feels even more "solitary and abhorred," believing himself "a
wretched outcast." But, upon reconsideration of his condition, the creature amends his
comparison to Adam, saying,
"Many times I considered Satan as the fitter
emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors
the bitter gall of envy rose within
me."
However, even Satan, he
continues, had his companions in Hell.
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