But, because of the way Victor treats him, he turns into a violent and scary monster by the end of the book. Throughout Mary Shelley’s entire Frankenstein novel, there is a common theme that things are not what they seem. Shelly uses allusions and parallels to John Milton’s Paradise Lost to compare Victor’s creature to Adam and Satan. She uses this device to show that the creature was beautiful on the inside, but hideous on the outside. At the end of the novel, the creature promises to kill itself, leaving the reader to determine whether he will, in fact, do it, because he followed through with his other threats over the course of the
But, because of the way Victor treats him, he turns into a violent and scary monster by the end of the book. Throughout Mary Shelley’s entire Frankenstein novel, there is a common theme that things are not what they seem. Shelly uses allusions and parallels to John Milton’s Paradise Lost to compare Victor’s creature to Adam and Satan. She uses this device to show that the creature was beautiful on the inside, but hideous on the outside. At the end of the novel, the creature promises to kill itself, leaving the reader to determine whether he will, in fact, do it, because he followed through with his other threats over the course of the