Frankenstein And The Creature Comparison

Victor Frankenstein and the Creature appear to be completely different people. But their personalities it stands out that they are a mirror image of each other. The creature and Victor both share a strong love of knowledge but they can’t control their obsession with it so it often results in tragedy. Victor became obsessed with the science and creation of life. The Creature on the other hand became obsessed with humans. The creature observed a poor family that lived in a cottage and became obsessed with learning about them. The creature approaches the family trying to make friends and gets ran off for his looks and he learns that humans are quick to judge. The creature begins to grow a hate for humans because he realizes that he will never
He is a being that has been rejected by the human society. The creature was just brought into the world so he doesn't know what's right and what's wrong. The creature says “I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees. I gazed with a type of wonder. It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path,” and quite harmless as he learns about the world after his “birth” (Shelley 85). The creature is not evil he is a product of the cruel, judgmental human society. The creation tries to care for others and wanted to have someone to love and spend his life with. The creature also wanted Victor to care for him and for people to accept him for who he was and not judge him for his looks. The Creature’s violent actions were all revenge towards victor for abandoning him.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein presents that Victor’s creation is a monster and that is not true. The true monster in this story is Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Victor had one goal in creating his creature and that was to gain fame and to gain praise from his creation. The one difference that separates Victor and the Creature apart is that Victor thought that the creature was still evil in the end, but the creature realized that what he had done was