“Let me go,” he cried; “monster! ugly wretch! you wish to eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre. Let me go or I will tell my papa…Hideous monster! let me go…My papa is…M. Frankenstein – he will punish you. You dare not keep me.”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 16. William Frankenstein’s rejection of the monster before the creature strangles him.