In the stories Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, there are characters that have similarities, and also share some differences. In the book Frankenstein, the character I chose is the monster, and the character I chose from the book A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Oberon. I chose these individuals because they are both out for revenge, they both are cruel, but they also differ. Their differences are that Oberon has a wife, but the monster does not. The monster was created by Victor Frankenstein, but Oberon was born.
Firstly, I chose to compare and contrast Oberon and the monster because they are both out for revenge. Revenge plays a crucial role in the story Frankenstein because all of the murders in the book are caused by the monster seeking revenge on Victor Frankenstein. He is seeking revenge because he claims that he is hideous,
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and everyone he encounters runs away in fear. He feels that if he confronts Victor, and asks him to create a female monster, that he will no longer be alone, and his tyranny will end. Oberon, however, seeks revenge on his wife because she refuses to relinquish the young Indian prince that Titania has kidnapped. Oberon wants this young prince to serve as a knight. This angers him, and he calls on Robin Goodfellow or “Puck” for help. Oberon tells Puck to retrieve the love-potion flower, this causes most of the play’s confusion and farce. Secondly, I chose these characters because they are both cruel.
Frankenstein kills many people on his hunt for Victor Frankenstein. He does so because they are scared of him, and in one case, they chase him out of the village with pitchforks and torches. Anger began to boil inside of the monster. He lashed out on many people he came in contact with. The monster was also responsible for the murder of William, although the murderer was thought to be Justine Morwitz. Oberon, king of the fairies, is cruel because he very resentful to his wife Titania. He is appointed cruel because he calls upon the mischievous fairy Robin to gather up the love-potion flowers in order to make the “love juice”. He causes mayhem within the story because of the accidental placement of the love juice on the eyelids of the lovers. This accident was caused because Oberon told him to look for those dressed like an Athenian. Puck came across Demetrius and Helena in the forest asleep. “They are dressed much like Athenians” he said. He placed the love juice on their eyelids. From this point on, the story is one big
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Knowledge can be the key to success and can lead people to happier life. However, there are some instances that you can not gain any more knowledge because of how it would change your whole life. The drive of wanting more and more knowledge is best portrayed through two well -known books. In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, and in Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, both the creature and Charlie are ostracized by society because they are different from everyone else but this distinction gave way for distinct fallouts because of their quest for knowledge beyond their reach to achieve happiness.
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Victor Frankenstein created the monster that led to his utter distortion as Roderick entombed his living sister giving her her need for revenge he know of this as he himself said ”I shall perish, I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. […] I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect--in terror. In this unnerved—in this pitiable condition--I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.” (Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall Of the House of Usher Paragraph 11). Yet in his own madness he feared neither of death nor pain he was only afraid of fear, knowing it would be the death of him. As it was, once she had found her revenge she seems to die with her brother as his heart stops in terror. Madeline it seemed was a physical aspiration of Roderick’s fears. As both their fates are tied to one another with Roderick’s actions. This is seen on either side of the connection between Frankenstein and his monster. Frankenstein created the monster and abandons him, the monster with the influence of mankind’s cruelty chooses to seek revenge, Frankenstein then hunts the monster down to seek revenge upon the monster’s actions. The relationship between Frankenstein and
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