Both characters from the novels Prometheus and Victor Frankenstein were similar because they were both intelligent. Victor loved science, he sued to go on journeys to seek more information about life and death, because at home he had nobody to teach him.” My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. (Victor Frankenstein quotes on education). And he even studied abroad to see more knowledge on his favorite subject. This created major conflicts with his professor at the university but also admiration among professors and peers.
While at the university victor’s passion for science and knowledge was soon well recognize. He was also very fascinated with the science of anatomy the professors were teaching, “ By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment. I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers. This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it “. Mary Shelly’s: Frankenstein.
Prometheus was also very intelligent and had a bright mind. Although he and the titan lost their powers, he impressed Zeus on many occasions and proved him that his knowledge was superior than his. But Prometheus and victor had also many foolish and very prideful ambitions. Both of them wanted to accomplish something, which was the creation of life, but without the permission of the ones that had the power to do so. Yet both of them accomplished their goal but they were suffering because they did something against th...
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...e monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity”. (Chapter 12.13 Internet)
The creature later went on a journey looking for his creator, he wanted partner to be with him since he was the only one of his kind plus the people hated him. He wanted a partner whom he could live with and not feel alone in this world. When they first encounter themselves victor was amazed by his creation but once again victor did not wanted to see.” Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants
Both characters were similar in how they were ‘resurrected’ in each of their books. Frankenstein performed an experiment through a process involving galvanism to produce the Creature, and
When Victor flees the creature, he becomes lonely and unhappy. He rejects his own works. If he stayed and taught him the creature would at least have a chance of happiness. When the monster flees to the cottagers he learns about human nature. He quotes “I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protector had departed and broken the only link that held me to th...
Both Victor and Prometheus must cope with their troubles, the journey is arduous and only one has the strength to come out triumphant. Victor creates a species, and ends up
His ambitions are what isolate him and bring to life a creature whose suffering was unfairly conveyed into his life. The creature is isolated from everyone, including his creator. He had no choice, unlike Victor. Finally, as the story starts to change, the creature begins to take control of the situation. It is now Victor being isolated by the creature as a form of revenge.
Not taking his own advice, Victor abandoned the creature to suffer life for himself. After months of looking for Victor, the creature in need of companionship says ”I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be slain at, and kicked, and trampled on. ”(Shelley 165) He journeyed on his own looking for companionship, no one liked him and to top it off reading Victor’s journal just made him feel even as bad as before. So he then looks for Victor and asks if he can create another
“.he declares 'everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery” (Bond). The monster is angry with Victor. He wants Victor to build him a companion, or he will kill everyone that Victor loves. After Victor rejects the idea, the monster wants Victor to feel the loneliness and isolation that the monster has felt all his life. “.if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you, my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred” (Shelley, 204).
Frankenstein and the monster are also similar in that they are isolated and outcasts of society. Frankenstein is
There was no one left to provide the creature with companionship and was forced to isolate himself from society once again. When the family moved out of their cottage, the creature decided to go on his own adventure and seek out his creator. Upon doing so, the creature encountered a young girl who was about to drown near a lake. When the creature successfully saved the little girl, an older man confronted the creature and shot him in the shoulder. Because of what happened, the creature explained to Frankenstein that his, “...daily vows rose for revenge-a deep deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish [he] had endured.” (Shelley 61). With this burning rage, the creature decided to take his revenge out on his creator, Frankenstein. One by one, Frankenstein’s relatives and closest friends were murdered by the creature, but his father’s death, was the final push. Frankenstein believed that he was the cause for all the murders and that he had to destroy what he created. He told Walton that, “...as [he] awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.” (Shelley 88). The only way to stop future deaths, was to hunt down the creature and kill him. Fueled with hatred, Frankenstein traveled for months in hopes of finding the creature. However, in his final days, Frankenstein was no longer able to continue his search, and passed away due to malnutrition. Upon discovering what had happened, the creature came out from hiding, and decided to explain his side of the story to Walton. Now that Frankenstein was dead, the creature decided to wander off and slowly die, isolated from the
“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips” (Shelley 58). This image is enough to strike fear into anyone and even the creature eventually saw that he was a monster when compared to everyone else. Nevertheless, his request to Victor espouses a side of himself that is anything but monstrous. After an extensive amount of time of hiding and living alone, the creature asks that Victor create a mate for him. Unlike Victor, who left his bride and worried her constantly, the creature desires someone to spend his unfortunate existence with, saying “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede" (Shelley 174). Though the extent of the creature’s opinion on the topic of women is concentrated into this one statement, the contrast between the creature and creator cannot be clearer. Victor’s primary focuses in life are his experiments and fixing his mistakes, while
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and the monster that he creates are very similar. For example, Victor creates the monster to be like himself. Another similarity is that the anger of both Victor and the monster is brought about by society. One more parallel between Victor and the monster is that they both became recluses. These traits that Victor and the monster possess show that they are very similar.
Victor Frankenstein finds himself exploring the world of science against his fathers wishes but he has an impulse to go forward in his education through university. During this time any form of science was little in knowledge especially the chemistry which was Victors area if study. Victor pursues to go farther than the normal human limits of society. “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow” (Chapter 4). He soon finds the answer he was looking for, the answer of life. He becomes obsessed with creating a human being. With his knowledge he believes it should be a perfe...
After Victor destroys his work on the female monster meant to ease the monster's solitude, the monster is overcome with suffering and sadness. These feelings affected his state of mind and caused him to do wrong things. He did not deserve to see his one and only mate be destroyed.
Victor Frankenstein had a normal, if not ideal, childhood. His father was well respected, and he had a comfortable environment in which to learn and develop. His life began to change when he discovered a volume of works by the German physician Cornelius Agrippa. At first this mild curiosity exploded into a genuine interest and he began to read works from other authors - Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus - scientists which had lived several centuries earl...
Picture a primordial world, covered in water and the algae of evolution. Even in the deepest corners of nature’s past, monsters lurk in unknown shadows. Mary Shelley’s Franken- stein and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men share both similarities and differences, but perhaps the most important similarity can be expressed even at nature’s most basic levels. In Franken- stein, one main theme which Shelley promotes is that nothing can overcome or deny nature. Steinbeck uses a different type of theme throughout Of Mice and Men, that friendship requires sacrifice. Through the comparison of these themes to Riordan’s famous quote, “The real world is where the monsters are,” a common theme can be found in both works of literature, of worlds made of monsters and sinister consequences.
The subtitle of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is “The Modern Prometheus” which is an accurate representation of who Frankenstein is. Prometheus is a Titan in Greek mythology who is the creator of mankind. To create man, Prometheus stole fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to man. Frankenstein also steals life and builds a creation. The representation of Frankenstein as the modern Prometheus is accurate because they both play god, steal life and give it to others, and are exiled to a life of torture.