The Monster And Victor Frankenstein Similarities

In the book Frankenstein, both Victor and the monster share very many significant similarities, along with qualities and traits. Each of the two always strive to gain as much knowledge as possible. They love learning new things in life.

Victors thirst for knowledge and a vague curiosity gave him the wonderful idea to create this monster. Victor has always been very interested in science chemistry, and the study of life and death. At one part of the book, Victor says,

“A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.” It is almost as if Victor is trying to play the role of God in a way. He is aiming to be the first human being ever to bring a creature to life. Pushing himself to see what it is that he is

scientifically capable of.
As much as Victor is craving knowledge, he decides to leave and go to the University to learn and understand the situations and subjects better; even leaving his love, Elizabeth behind.

By doing this, he thinks he is doing the community a favor. When really he creates this monster that turns out ugly and scary looking to them, and victor lets the monster escape his lab room and runaway to hide from everyone.

By running away, the monster realizes he does not have anybody. He becomes very hungry. So as he is walking through the forest he sees a little hut nearby. By seeing this, he thinks there will be food inside. As he enters this small hut, he approaches an old man, and by the creatures hideous appearance he frightens the old man and causes him to run off out of the hut.

The monster eventually leaves the hut and is off to find somewhere else to go. He finally approaches a village, but like usual more people run off to the sight of the monster. From all of these people running away from him, the monster realizes that he just needs to stay away from any

humans.
The monster observes a cottage one morning, looking through one of the windows, coming across a young man and woman, and also one older man. The monster begins stealing food from the family, not thinking anything bad of it. The monster eventually begins to realize that what he is doing to this poor family is very wrong. By feeling guilty from this, the monster stops stealing the food from their home. To make up for what he has done, he begins to put fire wood on their porch at night, so they don’t have to go out and get it themselves.
The monster studies this family, and begins to notice that they communicate using their mouths making strange noises. The monster, striving to gain as much knowledge as possible, decides that he wants to learn this communication. He begins to learn their way of speech and is able to speak the English language fluently.
After realizing that he is horribly different from these human beings the monster cries, “Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.”