Similarities Between Paradise Lost And Frankenstein

The novel “Frankenstein” was wrote by Mary Shelley on a stormy night. Loneliness is the sadness because one has no friends or company. She was a lonely woman who was inspired by “The Ancient Mariner”, “Henry James: The Young Master”, and “Paradise Lost by Milton. The story is about the creature murderous actions on loneliness, the cure of loneliness, and the cause of loneliness.

Frankenstein was also lonely in his environment because he was very different; race, skin tone, and mental state. The monster loneliness was a terrible feeling he was all alone in the environment that he had been created in. Even his own father disowned him. The Mariner and Frankenstein have similar characteristics as well as similar downfalls. Neither person recognized that they were doing a bad thing at the time they were doing it. Only in hindsight does The Mariner realize that murdering an albatross with a crossbow is a terrible sin, and only after completing the Monster does Frankenstein realize that he has, in fact, created a monster. Both characters begin with good standing and make one fatal mistake that follows them to their

deaths.

Eventually as he began learning to read and write he began to ask for a female mate that’s just like him so he won’t be all alone anymore.

Frankenstein never learns from his mistakes and becomes obsessed with destroying the Monster, which results in his death. The Ancient Mariner and Victor Frankenstein are alike in that they both lack foresight and feel guilty for their actions to the point where they long for death, but most importantly are alike in the way that they are both cursed to be without their respective groups because of their mistakes. The Mariner is forced to travel the world alone to share his story the rest of his days (Longman, 648), Frankenstein dies of guilt and grief at the death of his loved ones (Shelley, 174), and even the Monster decides the loneliness and rejection is too much and poetically burns himself alive (Shelley,

179).

The monster believes that his loneliness is caused by him being created different from everyone else. He blames his loneliness on his creator and eventually kills his father. The language of Chapter 13 is extremely baroque, and lends the landscape a romantic, unreal quality: skies are described as "cloudless"; there are "a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty"; Safie is not merely brunette, but has "shining raven hair." All in all creature was living a miserable life being he has no lover.