Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is a story that revolves around two main characters the brilliant, but unhappy, scientist, and the scientist's hideous creation, a monster that was doomed from conception. The creature and Victor share some similarities. Both feel a need for more in their live as they believe they don't really have enough. Although Victor has plenty, a loving family and fairly good circumstances, he has a desire for fame and in as sense immortality. The creature was born with nothing, no family, no friends, no knowledge; so naturally he wanted more. He taught himself about the world around him, and he discovered he was lacking life's necessities. Both Victor and the creature were motivated by there simple desire for more than they already had; this desire led both on a miserable path that ended with their deaths.

Victor and the creature are also the same in that both have the potential for good and evil. Initially Frankenstein's intentions were not so devious, he wished to preserve his legacy, become famous, and in the process further the scientific world by his research. But he became obsessed with his work; he unlike the creature isolated himself from the world unintentionally by choice, through his obsession. The creature was isolated because he was simply unacceptable. When Victor was finally done, he looked at his work and was disgusted, he abandoned the creature. At first the monster's intentions were honest, he wanted to help mankind, not hurt it. He saw the poverty in society and wished to lighten the burden of the family that he had come to love through his observations. But when the creature made himself known to mankind, he was of course rejected. The creature, who was at first a gentle giant, pledged to take revenge on mankind, especially on his creator Victor Frankenstein. In turn, Frankenstein vows revenge on the creature wishing to make amends after the creature kills Victors most beloved. Both develop a taste for blood.