Both Frankenstein and the creature have character flaws that lead them into a downward spiral to ultimate demise. It is during this spiral that the reader can see how the creature's flaws mirror those of Frankenstein and how they both give in to revenge, hatred and evil, and eventually death. The doppelganger connection is produced very quickly when Frankenstein’s creature comes alive and the first emotion the two share is misery. With the death of his little brother, Frankenstein describes that, "Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish” (85). And then later, the creature also exclaims a similar statement, "I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me” (132). In these
