![]() The links between the two texts become obvious, as God and Satan’s relationship in Paradise Lost so closely resembles that of Victor Frankenstein and his creature. In Frankenstein, Victor is the creator of what is known as the monster. (Paradise Lost, 10. I love how, in the middle of her own novel, Shelley so blatantly compares the story of Frankenstein to Milton’s Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost and Frankenstein are both stories of creators, and their creations. Victor too believes he can create a creature that will be beautiful. People are said to be created in God's image. In Frankenstein, the monster's companion is destroyed before his very eyes, and the monster is suffocated by his loneliness yet again. I often referred the several situations, as their similarity struck me, to my own.” In Frankenstein, there are many allusions to Miltons Paradise Lost that argue the significance between the main character, Victor, and his creation that draws. In Paradise Lost, Adam's wish is granted, and God creates Eve to provide him company. ![]() The creature explains how Paradise Lost “moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. The epic poem, or 12-book story, is a literary retelling of the Christian creation narrative. It’s what he sincerely believes the origin of man and the universe to be. Paradise Lost and Frankenstein Paradise Lost by John Milton was first published in 1667. ![]() So, the books the creature finds are essentially his “first introduction to humanity.” The creature reads Paradise Lost as “a true history,” unaware that Milton’s epic poem is a work of fiction. I found it so interesting that Paradise Lost acts as the creature’s bible. ![]() Having just been “born” (created by Victor Frankenstein), the creature is as impressionable as child and must be self-taught since his creator banished him to desolate isolation. While reading the creature’s (Frankenstein’s monster’s) narrative, I was surprised to see that Shelley specifically alludes to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. While hiding out in a forest, the creature finds a bundle of books, one of them being Paradise Lost. He describes how “ Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions” within him. Like Samantha, I had to read Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein for one of my other English classes. ![]()
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