Throughout the evolution of English writing there are often times when rival enemies unwittingly share striking connections between one another, a situation precisely analyzed between Victor and the Monster in Mary Shelley's captivating novel, Frankenstein. The striking similarities between the two tragic characters are driven by their dreary isolation from the hidden world, which refuses to accept those who are different from society, by hatred, and most importantly by the lack of maternal figures in both Victor's and the Monster's lives. As Victor had asserted, "I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit." (Shelley, 38) As he explained that he lost all touch with the world due to his commitment. Perhaps even the
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Both figures seem to despise vehemently one another yet strangely enough, they both also despise themselves for their wrong and destructive actions. The isolation started with Victor's decision to seclude himself from others when he become captivated with his scientific research and experiments. "And the same feelings that made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time." (Shelley, 40) The Monster detaches himself and becomes a frantic outsider when he realizes his appearance only drives those whom he cares for most, further away from him. However, the Monster's withdrawal is based more on looks rather than his decisions and work, for his deformed structure, and frightening face is his greatest distress. Ultimately, looking past the text one can see that both characters desire to play their cards in life, taking it away and guiding it back whenever they desire. Victor is prepared to bring life to the dead while the Monster, on the other hand, is ready to take away life from the living out of rage and disappointment. "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." (Shelley, 37) Meanwhile a tragic twist, both of these deprived characters have been …show more content…
At a young age, Victor was left without his mom after her passing and as a result, he never got to experience the real feelings of a mother's warm embrace and admiration. "She died calmly...it is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose every existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard." (Shelley, 29) Really like Victor, in his own time, the Monster never got to feel not only the love of a mother but the affection of a father as well. Without those two feelings, the Monster was never able to learn what happiness might have meant. As a result, the absence of these feelings in their lives caused them to be driven with more rage than patience and love. Another similarity between Victor and the Monster is them both being very resentful. The Monster shows his dark side when he decides to demolish the cottager's house, the only thing that expressed in him his warm human-like feelings. Moreover, Victor displays the same anger when he refuses and rejects the attempt to connect and understand the life of his creation. Conceivably it truly was the lack of love from one's mom and that from both of one's parents that produced the similarities in loneliness, anger and strived for revenge between
Both figures seem to despise vehemently one another yet strangely enough, they both also despise themselves for their wrong and destructive actions. The isolation started with Victor's decision to seclude himself from others when he become captivated with his scientific research and experiments. "And the same feelings that made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time." (Shelley, 40) The Monster detaches himself and becomes a frantic outsider when he realizes his appearance only drives those whom he cares for most, further away from him. However, the Monster's withdrawal is based more on looks rather than his decisions and work, for his deformed structure, and frightening face is his greatest distress. Ultimately, looking past the text one can see that both characters desire to play their cards in life, taking it away and guiding it back whenever they desire. Victor is prepared to bring life to the dead while the Monster, on the other hand, is ready to take away life from the living out of rage and disappointment. "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." (Shelley, 37) Meanwhile a tragic twist, both of these deprived characters have been …show more content…
At a young age, Victor was left without his mom after her passing and as a result, he never got to experience the real feelings of a mother's warm embrace and admiration. "She died calmly...it is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose every existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard." (Shelley, 29) Really like Victor, in his own time, the Monster never got to feel not only the love of a mother but the affection of a father as well. Without those two feelings, the Monster was never able to learn what happiness might have meant. As a result, the absence of these feelings in their lives caused them to be driven with more rage than patience and love. Another similarity between Victor and the Monster is them both being very resentful. The Monster shows his dark side when he decides to demolish the cottager's house, the only thing that expressed in him his warm human-like feelings. Moreover, Victor displays the same anger when he refuses and rejects the attempt to connect and understand the life of his creation. Conceivably it truly was the lack of love from one's mom and that from both of one's parents that produced the similarities in loneliness, anger and strived for revenge between