“The code that Zastrozzi follows” is one which moves him to “try to destroy both the body and the soul of his victim” (Murphy 28).
“For complete vengeance, […] it is necessary that hell receive the soul of one’s enemy” (Murphy 29).
Zastrozzi’s motivation for murdering Verezzi “partakes of a physical and spiritual kind” (Murphy 29).
Murphy, John V. The Dark Angel: Gothic Elements in Shelley’s Works.
