Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein
The novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley portrays two characters, Victor Frankenstein and the monster. Despite their drastically different appearances and lives, Victor and the monster have many similarities. Although, Victor Frankenstein and the monster share many similarities, there are four significant qualities. These include a need for family, a love of nature, a great want for knowledge, and an isolation from society. Though they're different in many ways, these similarities bond the two.
Victor and the creature also share the similarity that they both desire a family and a companion. They both feel loss and are very lonely. Both are abandoned by their creators at a young age. The creature is abandoned and rejected by his creator. Victor Frankenstein was abandoned by his mother at a young age when she died. The creature longs for a family he has never had and wants Victor to create a female creature like him so he will have a companion. Victor longs for the family he has lost as well. He wants to marry Elizabeth to find companionship.
Victor and the creature both share a meaningful relationship with nature. These characters have strong relationships with nature. Anytime either are feeling miserable, they are able to find happiness in nature. They both use nature as a getaway when they are experiencing problems and they feel they have nowhere else to go. They both find comfort in the beauty of nature and develop a strong relationship with their natural surroundings. The monster is forced to go live in the mountains and woods, since he is not welcomed in towns and villages due to his frightening and hideous appearance. Nature is the only place that the monster is accepted and not judged, and it soon becomes his ...

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...er seems to be the protagonist at the beginning of the novel because he helps the villagers. As the novel Frankenstein continues Victor Frankenstein is revealed the protagonist of the novel because he is the main character throughout the whole novel. Victor Frankenstein also turns evil and wants to murder the creature. Ironically the creature gets the ultimate revenge and murders Victor .
As most can see from the above statements Victor and the creature have many similarities. Both of them are the protagonist in the novel. Victor and the creature have always wanted a family to love. They both have a need to obtain knowledge. They also both want to murder each other out of revenge. Their love for nature always comforted them and made them happy. Last but not least both creatures will always be outcasts and be excluded from society because of their odd differences.