Adam And Frankenstein Comparison

In chapter V the monster has been created and has realized he is ugly and does not have a place in the world. In season 4 of Buffy, Adam, a modern Frankenstein’s monster has been created secretly by the government. Both of the “monsters” question their existence and find themselves as recluses to the community earning for a friend and becoming violent due to lack of love. The creations wonder the reason their creators want to destroy them after they have just been created. Victor’s creature and Adam in Buffy display the misuse of technology and power shown by scientists and the government.

In a non-scholarly article about the similarities between Adam and Frankenstein’s creature, it makes the connection between the monster reading Paradise Lost and

A few similarities that the author found: Adam and the monster both want to discover the world and the purpose they serve within it, they also want to figure out who they are and not what they are because they recognize the fact they are not like regular humans. The concept of discovering who the creatures are is interesting because many humans never discover their true self; the monsters understand life more than most humans which can be viewed as a push for humans to grasp their life. Another view of life both stories offer is the message of the dangers of science and allows for a realization of the effects of misusing technology. In another non-scholarly article, the author talks about the CIA project MKUltra, and she elaborates on the specific types of drugs used on the patient's. One of the drugs used was LSD, she says, “For many of these drug tests, especially early on, there were “no medical personnel on hand either to administer the drugs or observe their effects.”(Melissa).” The tests administered were often given lethal doses and caused many of the test subjects to be sick for many days and caused some to