my demoniacal design
As "design" had an ambiguous sense in its recent application to Victor (Walton 8 and note), so here the reader is brought
short by the Creature's assertion that his series of acts have been freely
willed. The very adjective he employs embodies an internalization of
Victor's demonization of him. Although he certainly bears responsibility
for his acts through an abiding remorse, at the same time we are aware
that he has been conditioned into the state of the demonic. To adapt the
logic of his own rhetoric, negated as a human being, he has been recreated
as a demon by the relentless scapegoating he has suffered.
