Similarities Between Paradise Lost And Frankenstein

When encountering Milton’s Satan and Shelley’s monster one can draw several striking parallels between their existence. Both are outcasts from their creator; each monster seeks an alliance in their exile; while on their journey of revenge, each monster tries to infiltrate those who are closest to their creator and; during each narrative, the monsters make choices which deliver them into ‘evil’. In their own way, they seek to be less like a ‘thing’ and exist more as a shadow of their creator.
Milton’s Satan and Shelley’s monster are both exiled from their creators. Each monster is forced to live in a world created out of their own existence, in a world which holds them back from a ‘normal’ existence. Normal, being an existence where one