... are beings of enormous power. We often times give them the name gods. In Paradise Lost Milton's god is the same God we all believe to be the one creator. The God who created Satan and booted him out of heaven. Through many a dark and dreary vale ... , all prodigious things, abominable, inutterable, and worse than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. (Milton lines 618-628) In Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein assumes the role of god and creates his own devil. Milton's Satan had the idea of fun. He liked fun and fun got him kicked out of heaven. ...

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The novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, deals with a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who embodies a creature, who eventually wreaks havoc on his life. The novel Lost Paradise, by John Milton, exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God within the characters God, Satan, Adam, and Eve. Victor Frankenstein and God have many similarities, as they are both creators of ... ...

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... convey the misuse of science for personal glory, cautioning how the obsessive pursuit of knowledge can alienate individuals, "I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit." Likened to Satan in John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Victor turns from God and the natural, pursuing an obsessive passion, "my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature ... ". The recurring intertextuality of "Paradise Lost" and recurring darkness motif symbolizes Victor's blind attraction to science. In searching science's "new ... cast upon him. Referencing "you people" separates him from ...

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... . Victor is weak in love; he has difficulty expressing his feelings and controlling his impulses, and he is self-centered. Many contrasts can be made between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Milton's Paradise Lost. Victor's character is paralleled directly with Satan's; both succumb to selfishness when they fall. Much like Satan, Victor is forced to carry his anguish with him constantly; "Frankenstein bore a hell ... within himself which nothing could extinguish" (57). The creature is a portrayal of Eve's role in Paradise Lost. The creature is persuaded by the behavior of others to take h...

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... . Victor is weak in love; he has difficulty expressing his feelings and controling his impulses, and he is self-centered. Many contrasts can be made between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Milton's Paradise Lost. Victor's character is paralleled directly with Satan's; both succumb to selfishness when they fall. Much like Satan, Victor is forced to carry his anguish with him constantly ; " [Frankenstein] bore a hell ... within [himself] which nothing could extinguish" (57). The creature is a portrayal of Eve's role in Paradise Lost. The creature is persuaded by the behavior of others to t...

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... his creator did. "The monster is at once more intellectual and more emotional than his maker; indeed he excels Frankenstein as much (and in the same ways) as Milton's Adam excels Milton's God in Paradise Lost" (Harold Bloom). Victor's lack of consideration and disappointment to love; lead to the monster's demise and his later termination. Victor tried too hard to create life and act ... ...

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... to speak and read by watching his cottagers teach a foreign Arabian girl English, and then he discovers a bundle of books, including Frankenstein's journal. The creature most identifies with Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, but soon realizes even the devil himself is better off than he. The creature has no one at all to turn to. Satan at least had demons for companionship. The ... ...

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... clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Explanation for Quotation 2 These lines appear on the title page of the novel and come from John Milton's Paradise Lost, when Adam bemoans his fallen condition (Book X, 743-745). The monster conceives of himself as a tragic figure, comparing himself to both Adam and Satan. Like Adam, he is shunned by ... ...

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