The beautiful Moorish slave is ultimately revealed as Satan himself.

Evidence

Moments later, the Moor reveals his identity, exclaiming, “Behold me as I am!—no longer that which I appear to be, but the sworn enemy of all created nature, by men called—SATAN!” Then, “with a loud demoniac laugh,” he pushes Victoria over the cliff to her death. In some ways, this is an unsurprising end to Zofloya, for the monster’s identity is signaled from the beginning, when he is described as a Black Muslim. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 505

Categorization

• XREF: The hidden-monster reveal anticipates the vampire genre’s masking device; Arjana herself links Zofloya’s telepathy to Dracula.