Comparing Frankenstein And The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The lives of Frankenstein and the creature have many similarities to each other such as relationships with nature, their desires for family, intelligence and isolation. Creating the creature and the awful situations that followed result in almost the same life consequences for each character. The deaths caused by the creature made Victor go to the mountains and reconcile for the loss of his family. When William and Justine die he states “But my grief was an augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.” (Frankenstein, 9) This showing that Frankenstein goes away to the Alps to find peace in nature, …show more content…
Throughout the book the creature had a variety of emotions for his creator. The creature became lonely because Victor disowned him for having such an unappealing complexion. He tried relating to many others but because of his grotesque skin he then became an outcast from the whole town. Once leaving the town he felt disowned of, he came across a village in another town and he then meets the DeLacy family. Wanting to have another chance the creature tries to connect with Mr. DeLacy telling him “I am an unfortunate and deserted creature; I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.” (Frankenstein,15) The monster then took out his frustration and loneliness on relatives of Frankenstein. When the creature was walking in the woods one day he came across a little boy not knowing his relations to anyone. William Frankenstein, the younger brother of Victor, started mocking the creature of his awful appearance in the woods. When the creature found out that he was related to his creator he strangled him to death and blamed it on Justine. As the pattern goes on of all the killings the creature had done Frankenstein soon realizes the loneliness he feels. Towards the end of the novel the creature has killed many of Frankenstein's friends and family but they now both share the same similarities rather than before. Their relationship has changed since the beginning of the book and has unknowingly progressed through the end. Victor Frankenstein now knows what the creature has felt throughout the whole

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