Quote Analysis

After Victor swears his oath of vengeance at the cemetery, the Creature speaks to him from the darkness, responding to the vow Victor has just made.

The Creature's repetition of 'satisfied' creates bitter irony: he is 'satisfied' not because Victor has agreed to something good, but because Victor has committed to perpetual suffering. The phrase 'miserable wretch' could describe either of them—the Creature has used it for himself in earlier chapters—so the insult binds them together even as it mocks. What the Creature wants is not Victor's death but his continued, agonized existence; this inverts the expected dynamic and reveals the hunt itself, not its conclusion, as the Creature's real revenge.

Support a thesis that the Creature's true revenge is the chase, not the kill—his satisfaction at Victor's vow to live shows he wants Victor to suffer pursuit, mirroring the Creature's own experience of being perpetually hunted and denied rest.