... 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 incarnations. Victor's creature known as the ... monster shows striking similarities with Satan and Adam. Characters from different novels have similar personalities. As creators of another creature, God and Victor Frank...

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... 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 they passed, and many a region dolorous, o"er many ... sorry for ever creating such a creature. Satan continues to fight against God. He seems to start off strong in his attempts to corrupt God's creations. God always remains strong while Satan seems to wind down like a clock. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will...

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... Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the circumstances behind his horrific actions, such as his accursed fate and inability to find his place in the world due to his lack of humanity, his comparison to Lucifer in Paradise Lost and his relationship with his creator and the rest of mankind causes a morally ambiguous situation. The monster's rejection by his creator sets up his accursed circumstance, which ... the monster was reaching out to him Victor utterly rejects him. In response to this abandonment the monster seeks to get revenge even if it means committing horrible acts which displays mor...

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... 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 his creator, though he strives to be good. These rhetorical questions epitomize ... the monster's ill will toward Victor for abandoning him in a world relentlessly hostile to him and foist responsibility for his ugliness and eventual evil upon Victor. I saw ... ...

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... threat to his bride Elizabeth. 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...

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... threat to his bride Elizabeth. 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 b...

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... 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 and almost unlimited ... powers", Victor creates the monster in isolation, ...

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... debate of genetics versus environment. Whale's creature is the recipient of an abnormal brain, which accounts for his child-like behavior. Shelley's creature, in contrast, acts violently to obtain the attention of the creator who abandons him immediately after his "birth." Henry Frankenstein attempts to control and teach his ... creature. Victor Frankenstein leaves his to die. Whale's creature, however, is the one that has become deeply imbedded in the collective subconscious of America, due mostly to the overwhelming popularity of the series of Universal films, beginning with Frankenst...

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