The Maturity Gained in the Journey from Childhood to Adulthood

As Robert Frost once said, "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." This is the desire that both Frankenstein’s monster and Porphyria’s lover yearn for. Frankenstein’s monster wishes someone to be his companion, friend, and lover. Porphyria’s lover needs to know that Porphyria to never leave him, even though that goes against the boundaries for social classes. Both the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the poem Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning share the theme of the desire for eternal love and losing all morals when trying to obtain this affection.

The novel Frankenstein and the poem Porphyria’s Lover have the theme of the desire for eternal love. In the novel Frankenstein, this desire for love is shown when Victor Frankenstein’s monster implores Victor to make him a female. Frankenstein’s monster says, “I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive and it shall content me. It is true that we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” (Shelly 135). Frankenstein's monster feels as if he needs a female that will be able to make him lose all of the misery that he feels. He says that even though they will be isolated from the world it will make them be closer to each other. He wants to have someone that will love him and comfort him. However, since he will not find this compassion amongst humans he wants Frankenstein to create someone as hideous as he, so they will both be able to love and comfort each other in the face of the biased judgments of the world.

In the poem Porphyria’s Lover, this desire for love is shown when Porphyria’s lover says, “Be sure I loo...

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... an act that goes against moral standards. However, he is maddened by the desire to have her love forever, he disregards any moral viewpoints.

In conclusion, both the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the poem Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning share the theme of the longing for everlasting love and losing all moral standards when trying to achieve this affection. The theme of the longing for everlasting love is seen in the demand that Frankenstein’s monster makes for a female. This theme is also seen in the way that Porphyria’s lover is delighted to find out that Porphyria loves him. The theme of losing all moral standards when trying to achieve affection is seen in the threats Frankenstein’s monster makes when Victor Frankenstein refuses to make a Female monster. This theme is also seen when Porphyria’s lover kills her, so he can be with her eternally.