“All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.” (Shelley 81).
The arch-fiend is often used as another word for the devil or Satan. (http://www.answers.com/topic/archfiend) Satan has a “hell within” him, as the monster does, and wants to see only death and destruction, to cause as much pain as is possible. The monster here admits to wanting this same thing; thus making him seem evil and wretched.
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