Similarities Between Frankenstein And The Creature

At the beginning of the story it appears that Victor Frankenstein and the Creature could not be more different. Victor thinks of his creation as pure evil, but as the story progresses similarities between the two become more evident. Throughout the story both characters show their hunger for gaining knowledge, they often find themselves lonely and seek revenge on one another. The evidence in the book shows that although Victor did not create the Creature in his own image, they both possess many similarities and the Creature resembles Victor, not physically, but through personality traits. Firstly, although for different purposes, the pair have a hunger to obtain knowledge. Victor starts to show his hunger for knowledge in the beginning …show more content…
When Victor abandons the Creature, and destroys the female companion he worked on creating for two years, the Creature begins to seek revenge against Victor for all the pain and suffering he has suffered because of his actions. The Creature seeks revenge by killing the people that Victor loves. The first person he kills is William who is Victor’s younger brother. Then the Creature moves on to one of the most important people in Victor’s life, his wife Elizabeth, on Victor and Elizabeth's wedding night, when Elizabeth goes to bed and he continues to search the shadows of the house for the Creature and she ends up being murdered by the Creature in her bedroom. After committing these crimes, the creature feels his actions are justified since Victor feels justified that he can just abandon something he brought into the world, he indirectly caused theses tragic murders. These actions cause Victor to suffer and want to get even with his creation. When Victor get blamed for the murders he is quick to blame his creation in order to get revenge. When this strategy proves as unsuccessful, he decides that the best way to get revenge against his creation is to kill him. He begins to track the Creature's movements be collecting clues left behind. He is unsuccessful in killing his creature because he becomes ill and dies from malnutrition and