Similarities Between Frankenstein And Paradise Lost

1 Text to Text: 2 In the text "The most dangerous game" you are left with many moral dilemmas, wondering what is right and what will happen next. The main characters are Rains ford and General Zaroff, Rains ford is a wealthy author who has a passion for hunting. While General Zaroff also shares the same passion for hunting however to new extents .When Rainsford is left on a deserted island he and Zaroff meet ,Zaroff tells him about his new form of hunting ,because recognizes Rainford form his novels on hunting ,and gives a proposal to his new kind of hunting. Zaroff forces Rainford to scavenge in the jungle, escaping Zaroff and his hounds and servant for three days.

The creature claims that the creation of a equal partner like himself would make him happy. The creature proclaims, "my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existance and events, from which I am now excluded" (121). In this speech, the creature tries to provoke sympathy from Doctor Frankenstein. However, because of his previous acts of violence, his request is denied. This agonizes the creature: "Shall each man...find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have a mate and I be alone?" (140). The result of these constant rejections that the creature becomes violent and therefore cannot be blamed for his violence. The creature's desire to be given affection and sympathy can only reside in another being like himself since he has been denied by the world around him.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, themes of abandonment and isolation are shown, similar to Paradise Lost, the story of God banishing Satan. When he reflects on his short existence and reads from Paradise Lost, the monster sees that he is more like Satan who was rejected by God than like Adam who was loved by God and he seeks redemption.

Like a baby, Frankenstein’s creature was born innocent and inexperience of how society works. Neglected by his creator, the creature had no one to teach him, this caused him to become isolated. While wandering in the wilderness the creature came upon the De Lacey family. He does not approach them, instead he studies them and becomes accustom to their doings. He uses his isolation to educate himself and gain courage to meet the family. Aghast by the creature’s monstrous appearance, the De Lacey family fled away leaving the

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The creature eventually learned about language, culture, and the human society from the cottagers. Nonetheless, this new information made him realized that he was a lonely soul on this planet because his physical appearance made him undesirable. He is similar to his creator in view of the fact that they both began to suffer once they obtained the information they wanted; Frankenstein discovered the secret to life whereas the monster learned about the world. In addition, the creature began to seek tacit knowledge once his rage dwindled. Although he felt wronged by Frankenstein, the creature’s ability to calmly sit down to tell his story to him shows his expanding knowledge of self-control and relationships. Furthermore, the creature demanded that Frankenstein build him a female counterpart who would accompany him to a land far away. He yearned for affection and acceptance, but due to his appearance, his only hope was to find those qualities in a potential monster Frankenstein could create. Unfortunately, Frankenstein diminished all of the creatures hope when he ripped up the female body he made. This female body never came to life, yet it is a powerful symbol that represents the creatures desire to belong. I drew the female body lightly to show that she was present, yet unable to fulfill the monster’s

Rejection by society plays a huge role in the creature’s life. Due to Doctor Frankenstein leaving the creature on its own, it has no creator to connect him to society (Lancaster 135). Throughout this novel, the creature experiences rejection on multiple occasions. One of them being when he is hiding in the shack from the cottagers. One day he got the courage to go over and try to introduce himself to the father, De Lacey, who is blind, but the father rejected him.

After the death of Frankenstein, the Creature is met face-to-face with Walton, and here the Creature meets his final challenge of communicating and addressing a human who might have compassion for him. Upon seeing and hearing from the Creature, Walton experiences similar reactions as Frankenstein upon first communicating with the Creature. His physical appearance once again stains with utter disgust any attempt at showing benevolence: “Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness. I shut my eyes involuntarily” (Shelley 211). Once this reaction takes place, the Creature’s words do cause a small time of wavering of compassion for Walton, although ultimately he does reject the Creature once

In the gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley weaves an intricate web of allusions through her characters’ expedient desires for knowledge. Both the actions of Frankenstein, as well as his monster allude to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Book eight of Milton’s story relates the tale of Satan’s temptation and Eve’s fateful hunger for knowledge. The infamous Fall of Adam and Eve introduced the knowledge of good and evil into a previously pristine world.

Displaying a parallelism between God and Satan in the poem, and Frankenstein and the creature in the novel, the allusion to Paradise Lost is used to not only reveal similarities between the creature and the fallen angel, displaying their shared neglect, but also accentuate their differences; which, reveals the creature’s innate desire to have human connection and the burden of isolation. Having no human connection, the creature confides in the poem as he begins to associate himself with Lucifer to assuage his alienation from others. Lucifer and the creature were abandoned by their creator, denied any affection and appraisal, and viewed as an outcast; which, catalyzed their vendetta against their creators and need for revenge. The creature also

A multitude of signs illustrates similarities between the Frankenstein’s creature and Mary Shelley. These indications show that the novel may be an autobiography. However, the novel shows a lot of the characteristics of science fiction. The novel can be a real description or fiction narrative, but not both. An informed opinion about this controversy requires the evaluation of relevant critics. Sherry Ginn uses “Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein: Science, Science Fiction, or Autobiography?” to adequately argue that the novel Frankenstein is based on Shelley’s experiences and fears, that it is not an autobiography, and that it has all the characteristics of a science fiction narrative.

“Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to him who has more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” (Matthew 13:10-12)

Between the two novels, Paradise Lost and Frankenstein, there are many striking similarities. What makes these two books so wonderful to read is the author 's ability to write about the ultimate struggle; the struggle between God and Satan, or Good and Evil. The characters in Paradise Lost and in Frankenstein seem to be very similar to one another. God and Victor Frankenstein have many similarities. One of their similarities is that they are both creators of new life. The monster, Victor 's creation, also shows remarkable similarities, but not with God. The monster shows similarities with Satan and Adam. At first these characters seem very plain and tasteless, but as the stories go on and the characters become deeper beings, the interest

The concept of revenge has prevailed as an integral component of literature, exemplified in Paradise Lost written by John Milton among other works. In Paradise Lost, Satan acts as the main proponent of revenge. The actions of his character create the basis for a Miltonic ideal of revenge, later modified by Emily Brontë and Mary Shelley. Wuthering Heights written by Brontë presents Heathcliff as a modernization of Satan. The characters share the experience of evolving from their lives as outcasts within their societies by means of revenge. The monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein romanticizes the Miltonic concept of revenge found in Paradise Lost. Although the creation and experiences of Satan and the monster differ, their premises for revenge become similar as the monster realizes his contempt toward his position within society and desires to retaliate. While the revenge exemplified in Paradise Lost shares similarities with both Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein, the origins of the desire for revenge, as well as its function within each book, differ due to changing life and literary styles following the writing of Paradise Lost. While the roots of the revenge of Satan lay in a desire for power, Heathcliff and the creature use revenge as a means to chase love and companionship.

This represents a rebellion against the social norms and customs, something that the 19th-century writers and readers never thought feasible until the Romantic’s break away from Enlightenment ideals. This parallelism in breaking away from social norms and society's backlash in doing so is further personified in the creature’s lack of understanding of why he’s hated. He means well and wants affection, but every single encounter he has with anyone is that of disgusted rejection. The significance of the hatred he receives by pretty much everyone is that it points out society’s own hypocrisy in this facade of “acceptance”. Shelley’s time hailed itself as being revolutionary and the Romantics called themselves accepting of all but social values don’t change that fast, deep down, they still wanted the status quo of everything being ordinary. Furthermore the creature itself is a rebellion to social to norms since he isn't brought to life normally and is instead summoned with science. So the people’s rejection of the creature, is therefore, a rejection of science itself since he is the embodiment of Frankenstein’s pursuit of science. What this goes to show in Shelley’s eyes