2. Introduction
Name: Nirali Dabhi
Roll number: 17
Enrollment Number: 4069206420220006
Sem: 1 M.A
Paper number: 103
Paper Name: Romantic Literature
Topic: Difference and Similarities Between Victor and Monster
Submitted to: Smt S.B. Gardi, Department of English, M.K.B.U
Email: niralidabhi95@gmail.com
3. Table of Contents
1. Mary Shelley’s Introduction
2. Introduction of the Frankenstein
3. Difference Between Victor and Monster
4. Similarities Between Victor and Monster
4. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
❖ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin
❖ English Romantic novelist
❖ Mary Shelley’s best-known book is
FRANKENSTEIN or, The Modern
Prometheus (1818, revised 1831), a
text that is part Gothic Novel and part
philosophical novel; it is also often
considered an early example of
Science fiction.
❖ She wrote several other novels,
including Valperga (1823), The
Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830),
Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837);
The Last Man (1826).(Kuiper)
6. Introduction of the Frankenstein
❖ The Modern Prometheus
❖ Publication: 1818
❖ Shelley sets the frame of Frankenstein in the late 1790
❖ Victor Frankenstein’s genre of romance rescue for beautiful
Elizabeth.(Wolfson)
❖ Characters:
❖ Victor Frankenstein
❖ The Creature
❖ Captain Walton
❖ Elizabeth Lavenza(Pearson)
7. Difference Between Victor and Monster
❖ Victor Frankenstein is the
main protagonist of the
novel.
❖ He devotes all his time his
studies, sacrificing his health
and his relationships for his
ambition.
❖ Frankenstein promises to
create one, but he does not
want to be complicit in the
propagation of similar
creatures, so he breaks his
promise. The monster,
enraged, kills Frankenstein’s
close friends and family.
❖ Monster is a Second main
Protagonist of this Novel.
❖ he helps bring firewood, he
teaches himself to read
❖ He demands that
Frankenstein should create a
female creature so that the
pair can live away from
civilization peacefully, and
have the solace of each other.
8. ❖ Frankenstein constantly
praises Elizabeth as a
beautiful, saintly, gentle
presence in his life.
Frankenstein and
Elizabeth reveal their
romantic love for each
other, and get engaged
to be married.
❖ On their wedding night,
however, Elizabeth is
strangled to death by
the creature.
9. Similarities Between Victor and Monster
❖ The Similarities are they share three significant qualities, they
have a need for bonds, they love nature, and love being outdoor
both of them are very shy and like to be to themselves but they
like to be in the nature all the time.
❖ The vivid similarities between the two tragic characters are
driven by their dreary isolation from the secluded world, which
refuses to accept those who are different into society, by hatred,
and most importantly by the absence of motherly figures in both
Victor's and the Monster's lives.
10. Work Cited
❖ Kuiper, Kathleen. “The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844 | work by Shelley.”
Britannica, 26 August 2022, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Journals-
of-Mary-Shelley-1814-1844. Accessed 16 October 2022.
❖ Pearson, Julia. “'Frankenstein' Characters.” 2019. Thoughtco,
https://www.thoughtco.com/frankenstein-characters-4580219. Accessed 17
October 2022.
❖ Wolfson, Susan J. “Introduction: Frankenstein, Race and Ethics.” 2022,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09524142.2020.1761110.
Accessed 16 October 2022.
