The Similarities Between Victor Frankenstein And Macbeth

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Do you ever feel that you're at the top of the world to the point that you feel like your immortality will trump anything that gets in your way? “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” (Og Mandino). Fortunately, this quote from Og Mandino reveals the egotistical traits’ of Macbeth hails him the Thane of Cawdor, and Victor who controls life by re-animating the deceased. To put things briefly, Victor Frankenstein and Macbeth’s ambition fuels their hunger for more power which creates negative consequences through the development of these two characters.
To begin with, Frankenstein was most certainly blinded by his ambition throughout his life in Marie Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. Victor is trying to defy

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