The Creature And Victor Frankenstein Similarities

Victor Frankenstein, was a well educated man who spent the majority of his life dedicated to science. The times when not buried in research he spent with his family and his soon to be wife Elizabeth Lavenza. Victor eventually went off to college where he met a few men who also shared a love for science the way he did. While at college Victor became fascinated in re-creation and bringing the dead back to life, The Creature.
The Creature, made from all artificial matter in the science lab by Victor Frankenstein. Victor’s intentions were harmless, he wanted to test his scientific abilities to recreate life from nothing. After many, many months and hours of research his creation finally came to life, but he did not know what to expect.
Over the course of the book the similarity that stood out the most to me between them was their desire to be successful and achieve happiness and knowledge. The Creature could not bare to be alone, so he sought out Victor and asked to make him a girlfriend and said that he would leave and live in the forest with her and not harm anyone, but Victor denied his request and the creature snapped. That was something that the Creature cared about and Victor took that away from him, and the creature decided to take away the things he cared about starting with his little brother William Frankenstein. On Victor’s Honeymoon night the Creature snuck in and Strangled his new wife Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor’s hatred for the creature was indescribable he was so repulsed that he could have created something that terrible. Victor and the Creature may be very different in a lot of ways but they share many similarities throughout the book. Those are just a few examples of characteristics they share. But i believe that Victor should not be found guilty for his creation, the creature has free will and he made those choices, not Victor. Victors isolation from society and his desire to learn is what fueled his ambition to develop the creature, not to cause