Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are two novels with entirely different plots and written in different centuries. However, the two are still alike in many other ways. Both novels have our main characters confronting the fact that they have created their own monsters. These monsters are shown via other primary characters in the novels. These such characters would be Beloved from Beloved and The Creature from Frankenstein. Morrison and Shelley both manage to convey self-created monsters in their respective novels. In Beloved, Beloved is a character that is assumed to be Sethe’s daughter returning from the dead. She is a monster that Sethe had created herself. Beloved is a reminder to Sethe about when she attempted to kill her children in order to save them from a life of slavery and cruelty. By having to live alongside Beloved once more, Sethe is constantly reminded of the sins she committed in the past. Beloved also becomes very demanding of Sethe as the story progresses, causing Sethe to grow weak while Beloved becomes bigger and stronger. Having Beloved in her present life is a physical representation of her past coming back to haunt her. She is a reminder to Sethe that what she did in the past will not simply go away, even if Sethe may try to hide the fact from people close to her, including her …show more content…
The Creature is a literal monster that Victor has do deal with and eventually confront. Victor initially runs away from his creation, leaving it behind. He does, however, eventually confront his creation and is also faced with guilt after his creation kills several other characters in the book. The existence of the Creature is a constant reminder to Victor of the mistakes that he has made and the blood that is on his hands. Victor must face the fact that something he has created has ended the lives of multiple people and that he will have to live with that
First, Before the monster is created Victor says that he hopes this creation would bless him as his creator, and that the creature would be excellent nature and would be beautiful. After the creature is created Shelley creates sympathy for him by Victor’s description of him in a unique yet horrific way, “he’s ‘gigantic,” “deformed,” “yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath” this makes the creature abhorrent to typical humans. When thinking of the descriptions together, Shelley has created a vivid, unnatural image of the monster in the mind’s eyes. The language Shelley uses is powerful and emotive “shall I create another like yourself, whose joints wickedness
After the day that Victor’s monster comes to life his creator runs away in disgust at the creation he has made, leaving behind a lost creature looking for its place in the world. As the monster
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is about a creature born in an unaccepting world. Shelley's idea of Gothicism changed the subgenre of horror, due to its dark look into nature. It became an influence on Tim Burton's movie Edward Scissorhands, moved by the sadness of the creature trying to fit into society, he creates a monster of his own. Mary Shelley and Tim Burton use literary and cinematic elements to show that isolation from society can destroy your relationship with others.
...e all the evil things they have done. When he goes to Victor's coffin, the creature does the opposite of what a evil being would do. He grieves over Victor despite all the horrible things the creature has done to Victor. The creature even feels guilt over the innocent people he has killed and the torment he put his creator through. Despite Victor's actions leading the creature to commit evil deeds, the creature finds in himself to feel regret in the end.
The reason why the creature had no name is because Victor saw him as an abomination, and without a name the creature had a sense of belonging which was probably one of the factors that caused his wrath. Lastly, both Victor and his creature have many things in common, such as revenge. After killing his younger brother, Elizabeth, and his best friend, Victor, after having no family left, wanted to put an end to it all, so he ended up chasing his creation and dying before catching it. After bringing the creature into this world and leaving it behind to fend for itself, the creature endured lots of agony and pain from society which drove its rage to Victor and his family and he ended up killing this younger brother and soon to be wife. Both were isolated from society, Victor brought isolation upon himself through locking himself up to create the creature and ignoring everything around him as stated in the article, “The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.
The creature later went on a journey looking for his creator, he wanted partner to be with him since he was the only one of his kind plus the people hated him. He wanted a partner whom he could live with and not feel alone in this world. When they first encounter themselves victor was amazed by his creation but once again victor did not wanted to see.” Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants
His ambitions are what isolate him and bring to life a creature whose suffering was unfairly conveyed into his life. The creature is isolated from everyone, including his creator. He had no choice, unlike Victor. Finally, as the story starts to change, the creature begins to take control of the situation. It is now Victor being isolated by the creature as a form of revenge.
The Creature, after learning what it is to love, requests that Victor creates a companion for him. Victor rejects the creature’s proposition, as Victor now understands the consequences of animating what shouldn't be alive, the Creature wants nothing more than for Victor to suffer, to feel the pain that he, as a wretch, faces. The Creature does so by devoting his life to the destruction of Victor’s. In chapter 24, the Creature states “But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes the malignant devil.” The creature is viewed as entirely evil by the characters of the novel, despite the scenes in which his benevolent nature is shown. It is ironic that Victor and his creature are foils of one another, yet they suffer a similar fate: their desire to destroy one another led to their ultimate
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein centers around a creator who rejects his own creation. The plot thickens as Victor Frankenstein turns his back on his creation out of fear and regret. The monster is cast out alone to figure out the world and as a result of a life with no love, he turns evil. Shelley seems to urge the reader to try a relate with this monster and avoid just seeing him as an evil being beyond repentance. There is no doubt that the monster is in fact evil; however, the monster’s evilness stems from rejection from his creator.
Later on in the novel the creature commits horrific crimes, “Could the daemon who had murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?” This quote is from Victor, after victor gets the news that his brother is murdered he immediately thinks that the creature murdered him. Victor has a 2D image of the creature from the beginning and that is that he’s a monster. The creature murders many innocent people and also blackmails Victor. The creature also has supernatural powers which frighten the other characters in the story.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and the monster that he creates are very similar. For example, Victor creates the monster to be like himself. Another similarity is that the anger of both Victor and the monster is brought about by society. One more parallel between Victor and the monster is that they both became recluses. These traits that Victor and the monster possess show that they are very similar.
This truly is remarkable, two novels of different time periods, with characters of startling resemblance. God and Frankenstein's creations stunningly resemble each other. The monster relates to Satan, Adam, and Eve. Victor quotes, "You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes," this is when the monster asks for a companion, Victor refuses. The monster also shows that he will go to any extent to be happy and complete vengeance when he goes on a murder spree.
Most notably, the infanticide of Beloved haunts her in the appearance of her dead daughter, Beloved. Beloved figuratively and literally consumes Sethe as Beloved “was getting bigger…[while] the flesh between her mother’s forefinger and thumb [faded]. [Denver] saw Sethe’s eyes bright but dead, alert but vacant, paying attention to everything about Beloved” (285). Sethe becomes smaller and less vibrant and her focus is completely centered on Beloved. This consumption indicates “Sethe will not survive her relationship with Beloved – that is, her struggle with her traumatic past – without help from the larger community and Paul D” (Field 10). Until the community helps Sethe, she will constantly be fixated on providing and atoning for her violent actions toward Beloved. In this fight for forgiveness, Sethe reveals why she had to kill
Victor has a lack of respect for the natural world that leads him on the path to becoming a monster. In creating the monster Victor is trying to change the natural world. He is trying to play the role of god by creating life.
When comparing John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus, the similarities between the characters are uncanny. One could speak of God and Victor Frankenstein, neglectful, bitter, somewhat cruel creators, both watching their experiments suffer; yet, the most stark comparison would be between the two outcasts themselves, Satan and Frankenstein’s monster. Whether it be in their rebellious streaks against the men who created them, or the sweet souls turned bitter by the unfeeling world, the two exist as parallel monsters in broken harmony.