In a passage from Volume Two of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley briefly alludes to the Bible when Victor Frankenstein’s Monster, reflecting on his life, compares Victor creating him, to God creating Adam. By employing this allusion, Shelley establishes that the monster’s tale ventures in a seemingly parallel yet opposite direction as the story of God creating man, while simultaneously foreshadowing the path that the novel as a whole will follow. For instance, the allusion first connects Frankenstein’s monster being brought into existence by the hands of Victor to Adam “com[ing] forth by the hands of God”; however, the creature acknowledges that while both creations have “no link to any other being in existence”, man is formed “a perfect
