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Frankenstein And Paradise Lost Comparison

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In the end of the first part of Great Expectations, Dickens makes several references to Milton's Paradise Lost. In both, there is a minor movement away from home. In great expectations, everything around him in the "peaceful town" moves slowly such as the mists that were "solemnly rising"(160), which recalling the "evening mist/risen from a river o'er marish glides" of Paradise Lost. These both contact as they both confess about the misty condition there going through. "Natural tears" from paradise lost conveys a feeling of sadness, which echoes dickens "tears". These both show a depressing atmosphere, where the narrators cry. Ultimately, the movement "to go back" from dickens also alludes to "looking back" from Paradise Lost. They both play

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