... because it will help us to understand an important deeper meaning of this work. The most important religious comparison in Frankenstein, are the outstanding similarities between Victor as God and the monster as Lucifer. This idea is proven by the monster in the quote where he states, " I am thy creature; I ought to be ... created to be unhappy, although he has committed no wrongdoing, and he doesn't deserve to be mistreated by society. As it goes in the bible, God created Lucifer as the most brilliant and beautiful angel in the sky with good intentions, but Lucifer turned his back on his...

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... from the Garden of Eden, the Creature is immediately abandoned by Victor and ousted from society. Meanwhile, Victor desires to rise against God by usurping God's role in the creation of a human being, similar to how Satan leads a rebellion against God. Although the Creature displays kindness through his actions and eloquence through his words, he is negatively judged solely based on his grotesque ... possession over other human beings and further exemplifying his inflated pride and sense of superiority. His notions provide insight to the reader about Victor's mindset, displaying his unn...

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According to Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan God who was spared imprisonment due to the fact that he chose not to fight in the war waged against the Olympians. In doing so, Zeus granted him ... 1831 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus." Shelley called her readers to pinpoint connections between two great figures such as Victor Frankenstein's monster and the mythological Titan God Prometheus. In letter four of Shelley's novel Captain Robert Walton finds his ship completely surrounded by Ice but once the fog clears he discovers more than just frozen chunks, ... decision to s...

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... from their offspring. Victor believes, 'a new species would bless me as their creator and source'. The use of the adjective 'creator' suggests that Victor sees himself as a 'God" or 'deity', above other people and able to defy nature. In the 1800's the majority of the population belonged to the Church of England, to these people the ... suspicion and rejection.' In modern society there is debate about Genetic Engineering, some religious groups rejecting this as 'playing God'. An article by the BBC states that for some religious leaders 'manipulating DNA is ...

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... lead to significant backlash. This ties with some scientific theories of the time as many scientists were beginning to challenge the God's existence which many people abhorred. Shelley shows she disagrees with these theories by showing that trying to play God will only lead to problems and therefore those trying will be helpless in the face of the consequences. Moreover, the novel ... bound to a rock while an eagle pecks out his liver each day which the Greeks believed would grow back. This correlates well with the novel because Victor attempts to play God by raising the dead but is nai...

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... to him a feeling of impending doom and sorrow, emotions which the main protagonist in a Gothic fiction often undergoes. Through the setting, Shelley shows that if an individual tries to play God and mess the order of nature, it will deliver the consequences of the act whether in the short run or for years to come, an issue which the modern society ... be linked to the current day, where genetics, cloning and IVF are progressing further and further in perfecting itself. By trying to play God, just like Victor did, are we in fact being wise? By taking the place of God in our society, ther...

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... . Victor responds to these arguments in his description of his creature as he states, "his limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! – Great God! 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." (85). As this passage ... ...

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