Frankenstein And Lord Of The Flies Comparison Essay

Frankenstein
“I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when i found that in doing this i inflicted pain on the cottagers, i abstained…”
I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?

LOTF
Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.
High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. A huge rock strikes Piggy, sending him through the air where he falls forty feet and lands on his back across the square red rock in the sea.

On the other hand, in Lord of the Flies, the author tries to explain how man is inherently evil. This story explores the idea that society was created so that man can repress his own selfish desires in order to survive with others. The boys in the novel originally held on to society's beliefs and tried to establish a set of rules to abide by. They all had a role on the island and banned together in order to survive. They originally tried to help and protect one another, as seen when “Roger gathered a

In Frankenstein, the creature is born with goodness and innocence. He is completely naive to the evils of the world in which he was made. He observed some cottagers for some time, curious as to how they lived. Eventually, he had this revalation: “‘I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained…” This demonstrates the creature great capacity for compassion. Without any former knowledge or standard for behaving, he shows kindness to people he has