After reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I can infer that Victor and the creature possess many of the same characteristics. One example is being isolated from the rest of the population for large amounts of time. In many ways they are also different with the fact that one is created from dead body parts and the other is a human. I believe one of the two is a bigger monster. Clearly after analyzing the text written by Shelley, you can see Victor, the creator of this being, is a bigger monster. As I stated previously, there are a significant amount of similarities between these two characters. One that stood out to me was the fact that both wanted to make good in the world. Victor does this by saying, “My feelings are profound; but
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The first main difference that I noticed in the novel was the regret shown by the creature while Victor never admits his mistake in the creation of the creature. The creature even says, “When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness”. This shows a ton of regret in which he wishes he was still just a happy being; however, nothing will ever be the same because of what he did, and he feels poorly about it. The opposite of regret is shown when we look at Victor’s actions. Never in the novel does he say that he wishes he didn’t create the creature which started all this madness. All he says before he dies is that “The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed”. This tells the reader that Victor didn’t regret, just wanted to get rid of the problem he created in a malevolent way. My last difference between the two is that the creature loved and cared for Victor, while Victor didn't have any feeling for his creation. In this passage we see the affection the creature has for Victor when he says “I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery…”. On top of all this the creature wept over Victors dead body. In the case of Victor however, he did not care about the creature by saying “My duties towards the
The first main difference that I noticed in the novel was the regret shown by the creature while Victor never admits his mistake in the creation of the creature. The creature even says, “When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness”. This shows a ton of regret in which he wishes he was still just a happy being; however, nothing will ever be the same because of what he did, and he feels poorly about it. The opposite of regret is shown when we look at Victor’s actions. Never in the novel does he say that he wishes he didn’t create the creature which started all this madness. All he says before he dies is that “The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed”. This tells the reader that Victor didn’t regret, just wanted to get rid of the problem he created in a malevolent way. My last difference between the two is that the creature loved and cared for Victor, while Victor didn't have any feeling for his creation. In this passage we see the affection the creature has for Victor when he says “I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery…”. On top of all this the creature wept over Victors dead body. In the case of Victor however, he did not care about the creature by saying “My duties towards the