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Victor And Frankenstein Similarities

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Similarities of Frankenstein Over the upcoming pages I am going to explain some similarities of Frankenstein. The first one I would like to talk about is loneliness both the monster and Victor are lonely almost throughout the whole book. The whole time the monster just wants someone he can talk to, but everybody he encounters runs away screaming or injuring the monster, and the Monster is not sure why. I feel as if one of the loneliest moments for the Monster is when he is watching the family through the hole in the wall and he just wants to find a love such as they have but only to find out that it will never happen. Even as much love as the family showed they still couldn't find enough to see through the Monster's horrid exterior. Just …show more content…

Victor as you know was determined to create the Monster, which eventually lead him to find and kill the Monster later on. A self-accomplishment for Victor was when he created the monster that was a huge step not only for Victor but mankind also, but the only bad thing is mankind will never get to know what Victor has created. I would say almost everything the Monster did was an accomplishment because he had to teach himself everything. The Monster was determined to find a companion but seemed to fail every time even his creator left him alone. Even though Victor was the closest thing he had to a friend, the Monster would still make Victor if he did not create him a female companion. Earlier in the book the Monster says: "I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me,". So this tells me that the monster knows nobody can love him unless they are just like he is, that he has given up on all hope for someone to love him, which is why he is determined to find Victor because he is the only one who can help the Monster. I believe that Victor made the right decision by destroying the female monster he had created for the Monster, because eventually they both would have lead a path of destruction then everyting falling back on Victor because he created them. But in another sense it's almost as Victor owes it to the Monster because the day the Monster was created Victor left him to be alone and nobody to care or teach him. So maybe the Monster wanted to leave Victor in the same sense as he was created.

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