Frankenstein: Similarities Between Victor And The Monster

Similarities between Victor and the Monster

There is a monster inside of everyone! Now I’m going to talk about some similarities between Victor and the Monster. What do they have in common? They both play the role of “God.” They both feel loss and loneliness, they are both without their families they’re so sad and want a family so bad. The monster had a strong interest in finding a female that shared his qualities. He begged Victor to create a mate for him so that he would be able to live happily like other people. They are both obsessive about revenge. They both could be considered as monsters, Victor went against nature so therefore, he could definitely be a monster. Wouldn’t you imagine so? I would think so anyways… They are both abandoned

by their creators at a very young age. Frankenstein is left without his mother after her death, and the creature is rejected by Frankenstein’s abandonment. Maybe the greatest similarity between Frankenstein and the Creature is their great hate for one another? Oh wait; it is there hate for each other is unbelievable! They don’t like each other.
The monster and Victor both feel as if they use nature as a hiding place or a shelter when they feel they have nowhere else to go.

Frankenstein and Victor both find comfort in mercy of nature and develop a strong bond with their natural surroundings. As the novel goes on, the Monster and Victor’s bond evolves and becomes even more similar than it already is. I think the main cause for this transformation is the attack that both Victor and the Monsters seek. I feel more sympathy towards Victor because he has no idea that he will be creating his own failure when he makes the Monster. His experiment goes terribly wrong and because of this he loses everything that he holds dearly, even his own life… Our kindness identifies ourselves in his observed seclusion. The monster suffers from the fraud of nature and they both have cravings for love and care from and to humans. The monster notices the care and concern and affection for one and another. This is what the monster began to crave for

him.
“I wept like a child.”Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?" (Shmoop)
“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than me.

My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was and gratitude assisted the development of filial love.” (Shmoop)

More important parallels are that they are both feeling isolated, Frankenstein isolated himself by working on his creature and the creature was isolated by his looks. Another important one is that Victor destroyed the female monster he was making for the monster so he had a campanion, the monster acted out in rage and wanted Victor to know what it felt like to be

alone.
“All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears. I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean. I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me. Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife? But I had suffered him to depart, and he had directed his course towards the mainland. I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge. And then I thought again of his words -- "I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT." That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfillment of my destiny. In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.” (Shmoop)
Victor and the Monster absolutely become more similar. Victor becomes just as much as social outcast as the Monster had. By Victor neglecting his duty to accept and protect the Monster, they both look like murderers. They become as one maybe not physically but definitely psychologically. Victor went to the wedding to marry Elizabeth and the Monster and the Monster was devastated because he is very lonely and doesn’t like being lonely, so he ends up killing Elizabeth. Unfortunately, it’s not a good ordeal but it happened. Victor agrees to just destroy the Monster, because he ended up killing his loved one. There similarity is that both of their ‘mates’ both were murdered. Now they are both left lonely and depressed. Each is left alone, seeking to destroy the other for taking the one thing which meant the most to them. What do they do now? Can you guess? They will probably be depressed for the rest of their life because they don’t have their mates to rely on anymore. Victor will blow the brains out on the Monster and he will no longer be here anymore. But that is okay, we don’t need him. Right? Right. Maybe as the novel goes on they will get more similar and start becoming closer since they lost both of their mates, and all they have left are each other. Maybe Victor won’t hurt the Monster since he created him. But we will have to see as the novel continues. As it continues we will know more about these two and their similarities and how they develop their relationship. Will their relationship continue to get worse or better? Well you are about to find out in a few seconds. Are you ready to find out? Because I am. So it all starts off like this, there relationship develops as if it increases with rage and anger towards with each other and they are so caught up in wanting revenge with the both of them, they both turn into monsters and lose everyone they have because they want revenge on each other. Because they destroyed their mates because they acted dumb and made dumb decisions throughout the story so now they are wanting revenge and are they going to get revenge? Maybe? We may just have to find out in just seconds as the novel goes on.. I bet we will find out, I bet they will get revenge, because they both will return into these ugly monsters and kill each other. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? I think it would be just fabulous. Getting revenge because the monster killed Elizabeth at the wedding, and then Victor got mad and wants to get back at the monster. “When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.” (9.6)
“This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.” (Shmoop)
"I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death.” (16.12)