Comparison Of Frankenstein And Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” Many people in today’s world would recognize this famous saying from the classical novel by Mary Shelly called Frankenstein. Generally, when people hear the name, Frankenstein, they would immediately begin to think about the monster involved in the story. Although, if someone was to read the actual novel by Mary Shelly, they will come do discover that the name, Frankenstein, is not the name of the monster, but the name of the doctor who created the monster. In fact, the monster that Frankenstein created, was not given a name at all. It’s interesting, because the inspiration for the story of Frankenstein, came from a nightmare that Mary Shelly experienced one night. According to Dale Bechtel and Adam Beaumont from swisinfo.ch, “She read ghost stories that were from the book Fantasmagoriana, and the writer and poets threw down the gauntlet to see who could conceive the most fantastic tale of horror.” Also, she came across a research …show more content…
Prometheus was able to create man out of according to Greek Mythology, and Victor Frankenstein created his monster with different parts of dead human beings. Because of these creations, believing that they can help mankind, both were punished in a way where they both gave suffrage to people for a long period of time. Then, not only did they suffer the consequences independently, but because of the creation, or the attempt to create, of woman, they ended up paying the price not only for themselves, but for men everywhere. Ironically, the first book the monster reads is Paradise Lost, and in the book it deals with the same thing. In John Milton’s epic poem, Book IV, it says, “She reaches for an apple, plucks it for the tree, and takes a bite. The Earth then feels wounded and nature sighs in woe, for with this act, humankind has fallen.”