Comparing Frankenstein And The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The idea of a mother conceiving a child is compared to the idea of creating a monster appearing in Victor’s head. This defies God and the law of nature because formulating a plan is nothing like the creation of a child in some aspects. Victor’s mind

What follows the creation of his monster, is a very dark, chaotic time for Victor. “It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils… by the glimmer of the half extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of

Victor Frankenstein in the book Frankenstein faces many terrible situations and has to face many consequences for trying to play God’s role in creating life. Victor seen and dealt with many situations as a young boy that will lead to his madness and obsession with science. Victor has always been intrigued with science and life ever since he was a boy. He studied natural science endlessly trying to master how to create a creature that could sustained life. When Victor finally creates his creature, he becomes disgusted with how it turns out. Victor runs from his creation failing to teach him any social or moral qualities. The creature haunts Victor killing many of his family and friends. Victor will try to run from the many problems he has caused. This causes Victor’s misery throughout the book. Victor becomes the true murderer in the book for trying to play God and create life with science.

I can compare Frankenstein to the movie I saw by Tim Burton, Frankenweenie. They are similar but instead of a human body, it was a dog and the mad scientist was a young boy named Victor Frankenstein. The young Victor Frankenstein brings his dog back to life after being hit by a car for a science fair project while the real Victor Frankenstein wanted to create a real life human. Just like the real Frankenstein monster, the dog brings trouble. In the book, the mad scientist, denies the monster but in Frankenweenie, the young boy convinces his family and friends to like his creation. Some of his classmates had known the young Victor Frankenstein creation and was intrigued to do the same experiment like his but it went out of the standards of

monster avoid pain again and how he is able to sit and think about how

His abandonment issues corrupt the Creature’s life as it causes him to seek a place he will be accepted in. His first positive encounter was with a blind man who was able to judge the Creature by his personality rather than his physical appearance. The Creature tells Mr. De Lacey, “they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but, unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions” (Shelley 159). The Creature is troubled by his appearance because it has gotten in the way of living a normal life. The Creature chooses to accept that Victor is the only person that can solve his situation as he seeks a companion that’ll join him in life. He may have started off corrupted, but the attainment of knowledge improved him.

With Halloween being right around the corner, children are preparing for ABC’s “Thirteen Nights of Halloween,” parents are picking up pumpkins to celebrate the Celtic holiday, and the urge for a good horror story is emerging. The monster, such as vampires or zombies, is taking the spotlight and it’s hard to ignore. From Dante’s Inferno to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, being frightened has not only been one of people’s favorite pastimes, but a way for us to explain the paranormal and unrevealed. In recent times however, there seems to be a shift from demonic creatures of the night to over sexualized human-like creatures who hide amongst us in the day. In this essay, I will show the gradual humanizing of the vampire and how it has morphed from a demonic creature damned by God into a creature with a big heart that is not much different from us.

At the first glance, Victor Frankenstein and his Creature appear as complete opposites with little to nothing in common. Victor seems intelligent and humane while the Creature’s actions insinuate that he possesses uneducated and monstrous qualities. After becoming more familiar with the characters and their actions, the pair still seem to have a few differences; however, they share some key characteristics. Finally, after analyzing Frankenstein and the Creature’s personalities and habits, it becomes obvious that the two experience a shocking amount of affinities towards one another. These similarities include loneliness and persistence. Other more specific examples involve their inclination towards playing God and their hunger for knowledge. Demonstrated by the many examples provided throughout the novel, the identifiable common traits between Frankenstein and the Creature continuously develop as the reader obtains a greater understanding of their monstrous personalities.

Being key figures of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and his monster are in a special relationship with each other. This tie goes far beyond Frankenstein only being the creator of the monster he brings alive. There are numerous similarities and differences of both characters that may or may not lead to the conclusion that Frankenstein has created his own double. One argument for this interpretation, surely, is the genre of Shelley’s novel. As the author’s writings are categorized in the Gothic genre, the doppelganger is one of the common motifs. Therefore, this paper points out striking analogies and discrepancies between Frankenstein and the being he creates, as well as weighing up whether the two characters could be deduced

This need of power led Victor to create what he believed would be a beautiful human being. But he failed to see that combining the most beautiful human features does not necessarily create a beautiful human being. He was inspired by scientists who ...acquired new and almost limitless powers... (Shelley, Frankenstein, P. 47). Victor sought this unlimited power to the extent of taking the role of God. He not only penetrated nature, but also he assumed power of reproduction in a maniacal desire to harness these modes of reproduction in order to become acknowledged, respected, and obeyed as a father. While bringing his creation into the world he was himself alienated from society, and isolated himself from the community. Isolation and parental neglect cause viciousness within man. Because of his upbringing, Victor had no sense of empathy, and therefore could not realize the potential harm he was creating towards himself and his creation. The sole purpose of his project was an attempt to gain power, but instead of power Victor realized that a morally irresponsible scientific development could release a monster that can destroy human civilization.

From the beginning of the Creature’s existence, he is deprived of making choices for himself. He was never asked to be created, nor did he have a choice on how he was treated. For any existent being, being deprived of choices can only lead to a sense of rebellion and a feeling of rejection by society. This is another factor that plays into the Creature's State of Nature and how he finds himself in the end of novel feeling like he is evil. When the Creature discovers that he is no more than a mere reject from society, he ask Victor for a companion, in which whom he can spend his days with and no longer be an outsider. The Creature wanted someone who, ¨[was] of the same species, and [has] the same defects¨. (Frankenstein, 143). His testimony shows that if he had a choice, he would

Throughout Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, the characters of the novel parallel to biblical allusions. Victor takes on the role of God, as he works to “pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation” (33), thus displaying a God-like power. The power Victor holds allows him to create a being solely from his own imagination, therefore giving him similar characteristics to God in the “Story of Creation”. However, Victor differs from God as Victor does not allow the Monster to stay in his life, as Adam and Eve stayed in the Garden of Eden, but abandons the monster directly following its animation. The abandonment significantly affects the

In the novel ‘ Frankenstein’ , Mary Shelley describes two important characters Frankenstein and the monster he creates. Even though the monster is not a clone or shares any kind of DNA there are traits and qualities that are similar to Frankenstein. They are not similar in their physical and social actions, however, their personalities are the same. Their similarity is that Victor and the Monster are eager to gain knowledge.The monster gains knowledge from the DeLaceys when he observes how they speak and that's how he learns to speak the english language fluently. In a meeting with Victor the monster expresses how he first

During the duration of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the monster is first shown to be no more intelligent or possess and cognitive brain power beyond that of a newborn. While at first this does make quite a bit of sense as he reanimated from the remains of dead tissue and has lost all memory and motor function, throughout the novel he is clearly seen, albeit slowly, learning not only how to read and write but to speak as well. Just like the novel, the movie adaptations also portray the monster during his first appearance as not being able to speak, read or write as well, but as the movie progresses he still shows no signs of being able to read or write nor does he make any attempt to learn how to do so.

Recognising the true feeling of his creator towards him the monster beings to inflict pain on to Victor by hurting his loved ones. Revengeful, Victor wants to“trample [his creation, the creature,] to dust” (Shelley 97) for the murders the wretched monster has done and fully intends to commit, similar to how a God in many religions may deliver divine retribution onto its creation. Victor’s supposition of authority over whether his creation will live or die is another attempt to play God. Victor plans to kill his own creation to protect the lives of his family and friends, however, as Victor pursuits after his creation, other humans are endangered and Frankenstein’s attempt to prevent the monster from harming any more of Victor’s loved ones is