Inhumanity And Frankenstein Similarities

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the similarities and dissimilarities that Victor Frankenstein and his creation share are the key factors leading to their demise. Frankenstein’s creation, who can perhaps most accurately be referred to as a self-proclaimed fallen Adam (CITATION), parallels his creator in many ways - including in their regret of their pursuit of knowledge and the way that they both begin with good intentions but become warped and trapped in a cycle of vengeance. However, the pair are also dissimilar in some ways, including the seperate ways that they judge things as good and evil. It is these qualities, with emphasis on the latter example, that bring Frankenstein and his Adam to their end.

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Adam first shows a great deal of natural empathy, especially towards the Delanceys. He is empathetic towards the poor family, and shows distress at their condition. Adam attempts to alleviate their hard life by helping with chores overnight, such as chopping wood and clearing paths. However, after he is treated with inhumanity from them, the very people he perceived as his kind friends and protectors, he becomes bitter and cruel. “QUOTE WITH ADAM BEING ANGSTY”. In blaming the family’s actions on his appearance, he transfers the blame for his loneliness to his creator, Frankenstein, and becomes warped with a lust for revenge. In a similar way, Frankenstein first seeks out the secrets of human life to alleviate illness and human suffering, but his intentions become warped as well and he becomes obsessed with creating life for himself, rather than for the general good. Although he was initially arguably a good man, he becomes careless and selfish, as is predominantly shown by his self-justification of letting Justine suffer the punishment for a murder she did not commit, caring more for himself than for some form of justice. “WHOOP WHOOP I DONT NEED TO GO TO JAIL”. Of course, it was technically Adam (or rather, a fallen Adam by this point in the story) who murdered William, but it is more than arguable that Frankenstein should …show more content…
From the first time he is brought into the story, Frankenstein seems apt to ether judge things as beauteous and godly or, simply, as demonic. One example of this is his cousin Elisabeth, who from the moment he first perceived her saw her as one of the most beautiful things ever to exist, despite having no evidence to support this fact. On the other side of the figurative coin, from the very moment Adam came alive Frankenstein treated him as a demon: “QUOTE”. This character trait of his plays into the allusion of god and creation between Adam and Frankenstein. However, at the beginning of his life, Adam (perhaps because of his experience with his own appearance) is more interested in observing actions to form opinions on character, as is shown by his observations of the Delanceys. However, when he is rejected by the Delanceys, he becomes bitter toward humanity as a whole and more apt to judge on first impressions. Without this base difference in formation of opinion, Frankenstein would likely not have discarded his creation as evil without evidence and would have rather given him a chance, which would arguably lead to a different future for the pair - as Adam would not have been spurned by Frankenstein, the series of events that lead the two into their obsession with revenge would not have