Comparing Victor And The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Due to Victor’s unwillingness to accept him, the creature was unable to conform to societal norms. From the creature’s very first moments, he is feared by others - the instant his eyes open, his creator cries out in terror and runs to his quarters. If only Victor had stayed and attempted to nurture his creation, instead of having “turned from [him] in disgust” (93), the creature may have enjoyed a gentle, upbringing in which he

Victor brought Isolation upon himself, throughout his life. Victor was deprived of “rest and health” and worked hard for nearly two years, while he isolated himself in his chamber creating the creature. After creating the creature Victor went into emotional isolation coping with the fact of creating the

The creature was truly miserable and hated the fact that he was even alive. All he wanted was someone to accept him and like him for who he was. Victor was once again acting in a monstrous manner when he refused to make a friend for the creature. The fact that the creature was always shut out from society and abandoned by anyone he ever came in contact with shows that perhaps if he had a companion, he would not have been acting out in so many rages, which results in no longer having to seek revenge. There would be no revenge to seek because he would be happy and satisfied with his life.

“Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you so wantonly bestowed” (97)? The creature blames Victor for its misfortunes because Victor brought it alive. If not for Victor, he wouldn’t have to suffer the excruciating pain that had become his life. “My daily vows rose for revenge- a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured” (101). But this revenge he had not saved for humanity, but for Victor alone. The creature had no reason to live except for revenge. He had no friends and hated that he was ever brought to life. His whole life was now filled with the need to cause despair and

Throughout the novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and the Monster he creates constantly clash with each other and cause much trouble throughout the many cities around. Victor and the Monster are extremely similar in very many ways and start to have an exotic relationship. You will see as the novel goes on they grow more and more similar and their relationship becomes stronger in a certain sense.

Victor has the ability to love, and to be loved, and the creature doesn’t but wants to be loved and feel love. Victor is a coward to the creature and in certain moments of the novel you begin to feel the need and want of what the creature wants and his anger towards Victor. He gave life to the creature, and he feels like he should be responsible, like a father. I guess that makes him an orphan in a sense. He was created, and given life, just to be left and abandoned.

This made communication with the creation impossible and the creation was lost and scared after being suddenly arisen from the grave. After the recovery of Victor, he learns about the news that his brother, William had been murdered by the creation. When Victor sees the creation by the crime scene in the mountains, he retreats into the mountains to talk with the creation. When Victor finally finds the creation, the creation tells and relates his first days of life, having to live alone in the woods and finding that people were afraid of and hated him due to his appearance. This led him to fear and hide from them.

When they both see one another, Victor reacts negatively and refuses to acknowledge what he has created until it attempts to make itself known. He hated it the moment it was born, there was no affection given to his “son” because he regarded it as a monster. Because Victor is running away from the creature , the creature also escapes into the outside world because his creator leaves so quickly. We are offered more about how Victor is feeling rather than the creature. The creature knows nothing other than what it has witnessed of it’s creator.

He takes away Victorś companionship just as Victor took the creatureś companionship, leaving Victor heartbroken as the monster is, crying ¨Great God! Why did I not then expire!¨ as he sees the dead Elizabeth. (183). The creature feels there is no future happiness for him, and that leads him to take Victorś happiness away from him.

Although Victor Frankenstein congregated the creature to be nothing like him, “the Being” was quite similar to Frankenstein. Some may even debate that because of all their differences they were quite similar, while others argued that within their differences were their similarities. At the start of the novel we view Frankenstein and his creation quite different for the obvious reason. While Frankenstein is a human of nature, created by God, his creation was an abomination to God. The vivid dissimilarities were visibly the way the two were structured and the way they appeared to the universe. Although both comprised a head, neck, trunk, arms, hands, legs, and feet, the dissimilarities came to be with the way they were proportioned.

Frankenstein and the Creature's relationship directly parallels their subconscious understanding of God. Whereas the Creature sees each of them fulfill distinct roles of Creator and creation, Victor feels the duality of being both created and Creator. Paradise Lost indoctrinated the Creature with its own testimony of the creation story and filled his subconscious with ideas of conflict and betrayal. Victor's exposure is consequence of the Christian-dominant culture of Europe in his time. From a psychoanalytical perspective, Victor struggles to identify himself as the god his id suggests or as the man that his super-ego insists he is. Even so, the war the Creature is waging dwarfs this identity crisis. The Creature feels that he must physically fight the spiritual battle that exists between God and his creations, whether that is mankind or Satan himself. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the actions of both Victor and the Creature are wrought by their understanding of the Judeo-Christian creation.

Victor Frankenstein lies and cheats his way through life. He causes problems and refuses to accept that they are his fault. Victor is clearly the bigger monster than his creature in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The creature and Victor do have similarities in a good origin story and feeling similar to the story of Lucifer’s creation. They are more different though because of how they feel after doing something wrong and how they feel about themselves and how blame should be placed for the crimes.

In retribution for his creation and out of hatred for his creator he kills Victor’s little brother William. The monster finds that it is easier for him to feel rage and hatred than it is for him to fit in and he becomes very bitter and alone as he retreats into the mountains alone. One day, however, Victor is hiking to the top of a mountain from his childhood and stumbles upon the beast. He is horrified and curses him, but the beast reasons with him. Victor acknowledges the creature's existence and hates the fact that he is the creator or his brother's killer, and of such a horrific beast.

A likely explanation for this is that they are mirrors of each other, with the creature being a representation of Victor’s dark and savage side. Through the creature, all of Victor’s suppressed emotions can manifest themselves. Together they complete each other. No man is entirely good or evil: “nature can be the source of death as well as life. Good people do evil” (Lipking 330).

For what we could say that both of them had many things in common as in to enjoy life and wanting more to enjoy with close companions, but soon seeing how horrible reality could fall on them. Though both were different, Victor had shamed himself for making an abomination, while the monster was trying to present himself more to others. To better explain what Victor is than I could, then we can hear from James Whales, a man who directed “Frankenstein” making it show on screen, he says this for Frankenstein “as an intensely sane person, at times rather fanatical ... [yet] Frankenstein's nerves are all to pieces. He is a very strong, extremely dominant personality, sometimes quite strange and queer, sometimes very soft sympathetic and decidedly romantic”. Though this is low for the monster’s story about what kind of person or thing for what makes himself, it could be that he’s just an experiment gone wrong, or something that shouldn’t be made ever ?, though this is a debate about something different, but I could just personally that the monster is a rather more of a person than any other human he ever