"God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred (93)."
-Throughout the novel, Shelley demonstrates parallels between the monster and multiple biblical characters. He could be Adam, Satan or an angel. In this quote though, Shelley shows how he is unlike all of them. He is not like Adam, because he is not "beautiful and alluring", and he is worse off than Satan because even Satan had companions. He is no angel either because he was not created by God. All the monster is is the ugly side of Victor. It is what the inside of Victor supposedly is really like.
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