The major theme in Frankenstein based off of the highly complex relationship that the creature and Victor Frankenstein share. This theme and relationship can be compared to other stories such as The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both stories include a creator and a creation, though the relationship that the creator and creation share in each book is much different, yet in a way they are similar. Both Frankenstein and The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde share a common theme. They contrast in many ways, but they compare in multiple instances too. For example, in Frankenstein, the creator, Victor, and the creation, the creature, are two different beings. However, in The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the two are technically the same person or being. Stevenson wrote, “For there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry
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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one character is good and one is evil. The same thing occurs in Frankenstein, where Victor is good, and the creature ends up being evil. Stevenson wrote, “This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,” (Stevenson). This provides the evidence that Jekyll would be considered the good in the story and Hyde would be considered the evil. This relates to Frankenstein, when Shelley wrote, “I saw at the window a figure the most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the monster; he seems to jeer, as with a fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife,” (Shelley 145). This supposes that the creature has now become evil as he smiles and points towards the dead corpse. Not only was he smiling, but he was called a monster, something only the evil would be called. In both stories there was a good and an evil in the relationship between the
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one character is good and one is evil. The same thing occurs in Frankenstein, where Victor is good, and the creature ends up being evil. Stevenson wrote, “This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,” (Stevenson). This provides the evidence that Jekyll would be considered the good in the story and Hyde would be considered the evil. This relates to Frankenstein, when Shelley wrote, “I saw at the window a figure the most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the monster; he seems to jeer, as with a fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife,” (Shelley 145). This supposes that the creature has now become evil as he smiles and points towards the dead corpse. Not only was he smiling, but he was called a monster, something only the evil would be called. In both stories there was a good and an evil in the relationship between the