Frankenstein
From the first look at the Frankenstein's creation, you could see a complex relationship between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to John Milton's "Paradise Lost." Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, was the reaction to reading the poem. And she used allusions to Paradise Lost in Frankenstein to help illuminate many central ideas of the work. Victor's creature, born innocent, tried to fit in the world that he was put into. But the constant rejection and isolation from the very beings that he longed to interact with caused him to evolve into a self-acknowledged Satan, from Paradise Lost. Frankenstein's creature relates the two stories to each other, and the conditions that caused his transformation ties him with Adam and Satan. Like Satan, the monster was created to be beautiful. But he ends up falling from his creator's grace and becomes a perversion of beauty. The monster is cast away from his creator's presence just as Satan is cast out of heaven. This comparison shows how something created to be great can be easily perverted into something loathsome and utterly different than its original purpose. Rejection is one of the biggest themes in both stories. Satan was one of God's heavenly children but was ultim
In Paradise Lost, Satan is a much more complex and developed character than God is. His speeches are extremely compelling to the reader, just as his temptation is extremely compelling to Eve. The creature is a form of Satan, who exists as all evil in the fallen world. They share a similar plight, and Paradise Lost is mentioned in Frankenstein several times. The most telling phrase is when the creature says, "Evil thenceforth will be my good." Just as Satan falls out of God's grace and turns to evil, so does the creature. But the move towards evil in both stories is marked by different characteristics. Milton's Satan is corrupted by his pride and unwillingness to worship the Son of God and God the Father. Satan also refuses to be subjugated to God and aspires to equal him in power or at least oppose him. The creature is forced to evil through mankind's malevolence towards him. To make the creature more like Satan, Mary Shelley uses the idea of spurned character reacting to a society of poverty and classes. " I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man...doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!" After the creature has felt the mistreatment of the DeLaceys and a number of villagers, he is driven to hate mankind. We, as fallen humans, will necessarily tend to side with his evil because even when our prime examples, Adam and Eve, were perfect, they could not resist the characters of Mi
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