Frakenstein- 9

"...but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night." pg. 123

I am beginning to think that the creature is smarter than Victor. I don't understand how Victor still believes the creature is trying to kill him. The quote above implies a sense of dramatic irony, because Victor believes the creature intends on killing him, when all the readers are intelligent enough to know that the creature has no desire to murder Victor. The creatures goal is to make Victor suffer the same despair and solitude that he was forced to endure. Therefore, the creature is going to kill everyone Victor is close to, leaving him helplessly alone. By threatening to see Victor on his wedding night, the creature is alluding to killing Elizabeth. The creature knows how much Victor loves her, so he is going to kill her on the day of their wedding. The creature is smart enough to construe a devious plan in which he seeks poetic justice, but Victor still believes the creature is after him. I think that if the creature really wanted to kill Victor, he would have done it already. He has had multiple opportunities, and I don't understand how Victor has failed to see that.