Similarities of Victor Frankenstein and His Creation

Both the creature from Frankenstein and the bonsai tree from “A Work of Artifice” hold similar traits and characteristics. Victor Frankenstein, the creature’s creator, and the gardener, the bonsai tree’s creator hold similar traits and characteristics as well.

In the novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, the creature and its creator, Victor Frankenstein, share a lot of similarities throughout the story. The relationship shared between the two resembles that of a father and his son. Since Victor created it , the creature inherits certain traits of Victor’s without realizing it. Victor and the creature both have an overpowering thirst for knowledge, a love for the beauty of nature and a tendency to use it as a scapegoat, a depressing feeling of isolation from people, a desire for revenge, and the ability to play God. The relationship between Victor and the creature does not develop like a normal father-son relationship, nor does it develop as a good versus evil relationship. Both characters show hero and villain qualities throughout the novel as their relationship develops.

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Victor’s creation of the creature has distinct similarities with the story of God and Adam. The creature’s struggle with ignorance, and his various temptations point directly at the Genesis story. However, the circumstances surrounding the creation of the creature versus the benefits God gave Adam following his own creation create stark differences between the two stories. There are many connections between the stories of Genesis and Frankenstein, but no situation is exactly the same.

Towards the end of the book the similarities between victor frankenstein and the monster grew more to resemble each other.

When Mary first wrote Frankenstein, she was debating over the name, she was thinking of either Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. The Modern Prometheus was actually a pretty legitimate option for this novel. The there are many similarities between Prometheus and the story of Frankenstein, such as what Prometheus does to the gods and how he steals fire and meat, and how Frankenstein manages to synthesize life and gift it to his creation. Prometheus is the Greek titan, who is the God of forethought and crafty counsel. He was given the task of making man from clay.

Frankenstein's creation process has many similarities to Gods creation process. God created life with the best of intentions. He created Adam and Eve with the intention of them walking with him. Similar to God, Frankenstein had good intentions when creating his creature. After Frankenstein lost his mother," he thought that if he found the right formula he could prevent people from losing a loved one"(Baird). These intentions led to Frankenstein creating his monster. Frankenstein created his monster using body parts that he sewed together to make one being. This is similar to the way that God made Eve. God

The unique structure and narratives of frankenstein determined what we can approach characteristics of main character in the book through various perspectives from different narrators. By developing her story through epistolaries, Mary Shelley employs a lot of parallels to demonstrate similarities between different narrators. Especially from the second volume of Frankenstein, in which the monster begins to narrate his own story, we can easily derive mountains of similarity between Frankenstein and his monster. First of all, Both of their passions for exploration reveal their similar interests toward new knowledge. Secondly, Both of them are so fascinated by the nature around

A multitude of signs illustrates similarities between the Frankenstein’s creature and Mary Shelley. These indications show that the novel may be an autobiography. However, the novel shows a lot of the characteristics of science fiction. The novel can be a real description or fiction narrative, but not both. An informed opinion about this controversy requires the evaluation of relevant critics. Sherry Ginn uses “Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein: Science, Science Fiction, or Autobiography?” to adequately argue that the novel Frankenstein is based on Shelley’s experiences and fears, that it is not an autobiography, and that it has all the characteristics of a science fiction narrative.

between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. Despite their different outward appearances, Victor and the monster have many similar qualities. The major parallels between the creator and the creation include: hunger for knowledge, isolation, role as God, and the utilization of revenge.

In books, cinemas and certain societies, nature was a common aid of all types of problems. If there was a troublesome situation, taking a walk outside and reuniting with nature was often the solution. This was no different for Victor Frankenstein and his creature.

Throughout the novel, there is this constant battle between the unnatural and the natura,while the monster is repulsive, Natures is happy and soothing.and the one should be careful when pouring forbidden knowledge. Death,and despair force the character to embark in desperate journeys. During his travels , the only relief that comes the character's way is from Nature. Throughout the novel its natural surroundings have been shown to have therapeutic powers on the characters. Nature has the power to put humanity back into someone who the unnatural or science world has taken his sanity .

Imagine running from a problem you created and, therefore, cannot escape. Victor Frankenstein, the main character in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, experiences this first hand, although he does experience a brief moment of peace. As Frankenstein attempts to escape the detrimental effects of his own creation, the monster, he stumbles upon a valley. As he travels through the valley, Frankenstein receives clarity and from the nature surrounding him. Although many readers may not pay close attention to nature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the comfort and clarity Frankenstein experiences as a result of his journey through the valley cause the novel to obtain characteristics central to the Romantic era.

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the self-reliance, spirituality and individuality that Victor Frankenstein finds in nature shows the relation of nature and the human feeling; when one finds himself in nature, he is restored mentally, physically and spiritually. In the beginning of Victor’s life he is described with naturalistic metaphors and other analogies in order to give the reader a better understanding of the connection Victor has with the environment. When Victor is mourning his friends and family, he frequently avoids humanity and attempts to find health and relaxation in nature. Victor takes sustenance from nature, and it becomes his coping

It was an artistic, literary, musical, and literary movement that lacked the main focus of romance. Some parts of the romanticism characteristics in Frankenstein are the Symbolism, imagination, emotion, and nature. "I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self...I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys"(38). Shelley uses nature to explain how Victor's life fell apart like the rising of the mountain river. Shelley's uses symbolism when she writes " One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it' " (99). This quote symbolizes the monsters feelings and his

When further investigating the depths of the novel, one can understand that Shelley uses nature as a restorative agent for Viktor to overcome sorrow. As a result of the murders of his friends and family, he wants nothing to do with humanity and seeks nature for health, comfort and rejuvenation . As the story continues, Viktor Frankenstein takes a break from nature and it becomes his medicine. There is a delicate but firm connection created between the primary protagonist and nature. Early on in chapter five, the author rather describes Viktor’s emotions with symbolism and personification, and then later Shelley recounts his improvement through his fondness for nature. Essentially nature is the backbone of Viktor Frankenstein; nature determines his well-being and his life’s path. The