Since the beginning of time, man has been seeking one thing, knowledge. With knowledge comes power and power is what every human being wants. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Lois Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both authors illustrate how ones thirst for knowledge and curiosity can lead to their demise.
Both main protagonists let their lust for knowledge get innocent people killed. With Victor it was his sweet and gentle little brother William who was killed by his creation. This was Frankenstein’s fault because the creature admitted this to William before he died saying, “Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy--to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim” (Shelley …show more content…
For Victor it happened while he created the creature, “every night [he] was oppressed by a slow fever, and [he] became nervous to a most painful degree… and [he] shunned [his] fellow creatures as if [he] had been guilty of a crime” (Shelley 57). While Victor created the creature, he isolated himself from his “fellow creatures” also known as his friends and family. Victor had to keep everybody away because he thought nobody could understand what he is going through. With Dr. Jekyll it was that he was very unrealistic which caused his friends to shun him out of their lives. Dr. Lanyon who was his friend said that, “it [has] [been] more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me” (Stevenson 12). The quote proves that Jekyll isolated himself because his ideas became too outrageous and put the people close to him in …show more content…
Victor made a bad choice when he decided to play God and create new life which, lead to his death on his deathbed he says, “if I [die], swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death” (Shelley 226). After Victor created the creature he was always on his heels. Victor grew very bitter because he wanted to play God so badly, but he did not have the responsibility to father a creature which costed him his life. With Dr. Jekyll he pushed his friends away and when he needed their help they were not there, “he began to go wrong, wrong in the mind” (Stevenson 12). Dr. Jekyll needed support from his friends but could not get it because he shunned them out of his life, which caused him to lose himself and his
Both main protagonists let their lust for knowledge get innocent people killed. With Victor it was his sweet and gentle little brother William who was killed by his creation. This was Frankenstein’s fault because the creature admitted this to William before he died saying, “Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy--to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim” (Shelley …show more content…
For Victor it happened while he created the creature, “every night [he] was oppressed by a slow fever, and [he] became nervous to a most painful degree… and [he] shunned [his] fellow creatures as if [he] had been guilty of a crime” (Shelley 57). While Victor created the creature, he isolated himself from his “fellow creatures” also known as his friends and family. Victor had to keep everybody away because he thought nobody could understand what he is going through. With Dr. Jekyll it was that he was very unrealistic which caused his friends to shun him out of their lives. Dr. Lanyon who was his friend said that, “it [has] [been] more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me” (Stevenson 12). The quote proves that Jekyll isolated himself because his ideas became too outrageous and put the people close to him in …show more content…
Victor made a bad choice when he decided to play God and create new life which, lead to his death on his deathbed he says, “if I [die], swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death” (Shelley 226). After Victor created the creature he was always on his heels. Victor grew very bitter because he wanted to play God so badly, but he did not have the responsibility to father a creature which costed him his life. With Dr. Jekyll he pushed his friends away and when he needed their help they were not there, “he began to go wrong, wrong in the mind” (Stevenson 12). Dr. Jekyll needed support from his friends but could not get it because he shunned them out of his life, which caused him to lose himself and his