Compare And Contrast Essay On Frankenstein

The monster in the novel Frankenstein differs from the monster Grendel in many ways for example: the point of view of the characters, how the monsters were created, and finally the fate of the monsters. However none of these things make one monster better than the other. Each monster had their own hardships in their novels and how can one hardship be put before another.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly instead of having the point of view of the monster it is of, Frankenstein, the monster’s creator. This can be shown by the quote: “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!- Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous
This can be taken two different ways. Successful or happy because yay the monster survives! Or this could be used to evoke sympathy for the monster who now has to live on with no purpose in his life. The monster stated before in the novel his purpose was to make his creator, Frankenstein, pay and make him feel what the monster felt: having no loved ones and being alone. When Frankenstein dies the monster loses his purpose. “He sprung from the cabin-window as he said this, upon the ice-raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”(186) Grendel on the other hand dies a horrible, gruesome death at the end of his novel. This is probably what was best for Grendel because of how unhappy he was all of the time and not belonging anywhere. This was his happy ending (in some sort of twisted sick way) this was his escape. “Again sight clears. I am slick with blood. I discover I no longer feel pain. Animals gather around me, enemies of old, to watch me