Discuss The Similarities Between Frankenstein And God's Creation Process

Many people in history have tried to play the role of God by taking other people’s lives and trying to do what has never been done before, creating a new species. In the novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein accomplished this goal by creating the monster thus playing the role of God. There are even many hints and lines in the story that are related to biblical stories and ideas to compare Victor as God or a father figure towards the creature. It gave Victor something to do with his life and even to this day people want to be like Victor and have the power of God.

There are evident similarities between Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Both Frankenstein and his creation share a love for nature, a longing for knowledge, and a desire for companionship.

When Victor Frankenstein began the process of creating a living being from an inanimate object, he expected the creature to be the beautiful beginning of a new

Though Victor Frankenstein and his creation both have qualities that are clearly monstrous, Victor’s selfishness, his abandonment of his responsibilities, and his inability to recognize his own faults and the monstrous qualities within himself qualities within himself make him the true monster while his creation is rather the opposite.

There are differences and similarities in the creation story of Adam and Victor’s creature. Victor Frankenstein and God created beings and put them in the world. Adam and the creature Victor Frankenstein created resembles each other because, they were alone, unique, and beings created. The creation of Frankenstein’s monster parallels the creation of Adam in many ways. First of all, both Adam and the monster were created because of love. God loved the world and He thought that he needs to create a human being who was to take care of the beautiful earth. The bible says that, God loved humanity and that is why he created man (Adam) in His image and put him in the Garden of Eden which had everything he needed (Gen. 2:7-9). Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden and warned not to eat from “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". On the other hand, Victor was a human

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

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, illustrates an interesting story focusing in on many different themes, but what most readers may miss, is the similarities between Victor Frankenstein and the creature he created. As the story develops, one may pick up on these similarities more and more. This is portrayed through their feelings of isolation, thirst for revenge, their bold attempt to play god, and also their hunger to obtain knowledge. These are all displayed through a series of both the actions and the words of Frankenstein and his creature.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein we are introduced early in the story to one of the main characters Victor Frankenstein and subsequently to his creation referred to as the monster. The monster comes to life after being constructed by Victor using body parts from corpses. As gruesome as this sounds initially we are soon caught up in the tale of the living monster. Victor the creator becomes immediately remorseful of his decision to bring the monstrous creation to life and abandons the borne creature. Victor describes his emotions and physical description of his creation as follows:

In the Bible, the book of Genesis 1:27 states that "God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Creating both men and women in His image, God is the only person who can do this successfully, giving us unconditional love and never abandoning us throughout our journey in life. On the other hand, Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist creates a life form due to his love of natural sciences. His desire to create this life form only for an experimental purpose unknowingly leads to disastrous outcomes for both Victor Frankenstein and his creation, the monster. In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein uses his knowledge

Just as Eve is told that she will be a god if she partakes of the fruit of knowledge, Frankenstein works to create a being to worship him as a god. He says, “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me” (55). The creation of the monster draws some parallels between Frankenstein and God in Paradise Lost. Frankenstein’s act of “bestowing animation upon lifeless matter”

As stated before, Frankenstein drove the Being toward the monster archetype, and the Being drove Frankenstein away from the creator archetype. This affected the lives of both these characters, both directly and indirectly. Because Frankenstein pushed the Being away, the Being became a monster. The Being says, "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy one, I will indulge in the other" (Shelly 229). This means that since Frankenstein did not provide love for the Being, Frankenstein created the monster himself, both in his physical appearance and eventually the Being's mental state (Advances in

The reason why this film was so appealing to an audience in the United States during the early years of the great depression deals with what the monster represented. To an audience, the monster represents themselves and their struggles against wealth capitalists. This is a very Freudian thought because; the fictional tale of Frankenstein might have brought out this uncanny feeling that the story on screen was the story of their situation during the depression. In a sense, audiences of 1931 would have seen the monster as easily identifiable with the working man. By contrast, Dr. Frankenstein could be identified and characterized as the upper class, which creates a sense of class structure in the film.

When comparing Frankenstein and the Creature to God and Adam. Frankenstein resembles Adam in which he is created as an individual. When contrasting them you will see that god created Adam and then created Eve with him. God also loved Adam and didn’t punish Adam until Adam disobeyed God but eating the Apple from the Garden

In Frankenstein, Victor creates a monster out of “human body parts” of dead corpses by stitching them together and bringing it to life, yet Victor refuses to think of his creation as a human being. In Frankenstein, Victor sees his creation come to life after two whole years of scientific

The 1935 movie The Man Who Made a Monster by James Whale had the same main idea with Frankenstein creating like, but besides that it was different in many ways. In the movie Frankenstein did not have much of a story as to why he wanted to create life, where as in the book we know he was upset about his mother’s death. A character named Fritz was Frankenstein’s assistant and only the creature’s first victim even though his character was not in the book at all. In this movie the creature does not have much of a character besides the monster killing people and crashing weddings. There was not a De’Lacey family in the movie to help teach the creature how to speak. Personally this displeased me because I enjoyed the books representation of the creature as a loving being that was only changed by the hate of others toward him. This movie was all together a bad representative of the book.