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Similarities Between Hamlet And Frankenstien

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Revenge is Air to Humans
In Hamlet and Frankenstien both writers use cause and effect to foreshadow how revenge is going to be executed. The universal truth about revenge's role in the human condition that both Shelly and Shakespeare would agree on is that revenge is no doubt human nature and it is something that no human can refuse.
Towards the beginning of Hamlet the main character Hamlet sees a ghost and is told to avenge is fathers wrongful death. “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” (Shakespeare pg. 23) The foreshadowing in the beginning of the book provides Hamlet’s future intent to get revenge on Claudius. This goes to show how Hamlet couldn’t refuse revenge because he ended up killing his fathers murder. It’s built inside all …show more content…

The beginning of the book addresses a very important topic (human life), “One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge” (Shelly 11) Even Though neither Victor Frankentien or the creature say this quote it foreshadows the little/big importance of human life in the book. The price of human life in Frankenstein is nothing compared to the reward accomplished with revenge. This quote is in the very beginning of the book and it touches on what will come later. Human life is and isn’t valued by Victor and the creature. The creature kills many humans that are close to Victor however Victor creates the creature and abandons him. They both value human life when it affects them personally. This is very mirrored in both characters by the way they react after the other achieves revenge. One of the most important turning points in Frankenstein is when the creature promises to see Victor on his wedding day, “I will see you on your wedding day”(Shelly 112) At this point in Frankenstein the monster and Victor are at war with each other. The monster tells Victor that he will see him on his wedding day because Victor didn’t make the monster a partner. The monster did indeed achieve revenge on Victor. Even though the monster isn’t human he is still feeling the immense urge to seek revenge. The monster can’t help but get revenge because Victore didn’t follow through with his promise. …show more content…

The creature is so hungry to get revenge that when he literally just sees Victor he wants to kill him. “The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.”(Shelly 16)The creature even though he is not technically human he still longs to live like a human and act like one. He believed that he could be a good person even before he wanted to get revenge. This however changed because of Victor’s actions against him. It's so rooted in us as humans to want revenge. By the creature feeling hatred that exemplifies just embedded the want for revenge is. Also the creature had many opportunities to get revenge on Victor and he took them. By killing people close to Victor the creature is feeling human emotions. The creature tells Victor, "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."(Shelly 67) This specific confrontation between the creature and Victor really shows how much anger the creature has toward his creator. The creature at this point is directly telling Victor that if he doesn't kill Victor he will kill someone else. In the creature’s mind he believes the best way to get revenge is to murder. This is way more drastic than how most humans get revenge on others nonetheless

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The creature professes he despises Victor, stating he loathes Victor and desires for him to hate his human essence. Following Victor’s initial refusal the creature states, “...if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you… because my creator, do I swear indistinguishable hatred” (Shelley, 129). He informs Victor that the only two options are to make him a female mate, or know that the creature is to cause destruction wherever he traverses. This is an attempt to provoke fear from Victor by making him believe that if he does not abide by the creature’s request, he will be putting society at

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Gris Grimly's Frankenstein has a very consistent theme of revenge. We see this throughout the story from both Victor Frankenstein’s and his creature’s perspectives. We see this because when one of them does something, the other does something in return. It is a never-ending cycle that just causes more harm than good, and we can trace all of the issues to Victor and his passion for finding ways to bring people back to life. This ultimately backfires because in one of his experiments, he creates a monster set on revenge against Victor.

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The creature wants to take revenge on Victor for abandoning him and causes Victor grief by killing the people he cares about. When the creature kills, Victor feels responsible and guilty of the murders. He continually breaks down with each death by “his” hands, which makes him go mad. The task of creating a monster turned Victor into a monster

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Vengeance in Frankenstein Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein we see how the isolation and detachment from society leads to the characters desire for revenge. As Victor Frankenstein, the Creature, and other characters develop and change throughout the story, we see how they often grow indignant of others actions and seek a way to get back at them. The most prominent example of this being shown through the Creature where he grows greatly disconnected from society which leads him to grow hatred for Victor Frankenstein and kill people. Once the creature is created and immediately abandoned/shunned by others in the public, he turns to evil and seeks to kill those who have made him the way he is. In this case the creature targets people close

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(Shelly 69) What Victor endured in the past still fuelled his hate and anger towards the creature. This hate consumed his whole being leading him to parade such savagery to the creature. Through the cruelty he shows buth his own body and the creature we can see Victor's selfishness.

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The creature did not care for anyone, he only felt malice since the moment he was animated. After the creature tries to help a human from death and is only returned by being shot utters this cry,“ Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind,” (Shelley 130). The creature may have tried to help someone but he only does this in the most dire of circumstances and truly only wishes evil upon mankind. After Victor has gone against his promise of creating a companion for the creature, the creature says,“ I may die but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes your misery,” (158). The creature has no compassion for killing Victor’s family and only has a heart full of vengeance due to his being inherently evil.

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The fact that Victor sees the creature as such a vile thing shows us that Victor doesn’t have any respect whatsoever for it. The creature states that he was ‘dependent on none and related to none’ which also

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This destruction pushed the monster into a state of anger. “Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;- obey!” (Shelley 122). Victor and the creature battle for

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Have you ever been wronged by someone so badly that you felt as though revenge was needed? Perhaps your best friend stole the woman you loved, so you felt that you needed to act and do something to get back at him. Maybe you destroy his life by starting a false rumor about him, or you get in a fight with him and humiliate him. This is just one common example of “revenge” in our everyday lives. In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, there are much more serious things going on, involving death, murder, and wars between nations.

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The monster explains; “I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until i desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth” (Shelley 157). The creature is premeditating his plan of action by telling Victor that since he took the option of love away from him by refusing to create a significant other for the creature to cure his lonliness when he finds love, now he will initiate his revenge on Victor. In Victor’s eyes he worries about what the creature had told him as he feared that it might come true.

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Many more deaths happened due to the creature's actions. Killing innocent people who had nothing to do with his creation is not a humanly act, the creature was truly crazy. The only reason Victor hated the creature was because the creature was a murderer, and Victor would’ve most likely reasoned with the creature if he hadn’t killed a relative. Eventually, the creature “snatched…every hope of future happiness,” (page 187), from Victor. These actions didn't help the creature in any way, all it did was make Victor's life miserable.

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The monsters revenge on Frankenstein, drives him too to be full of hatred and need for vengeance because he destroyed everything good in his life. He feels as the death of his loved ones is his fault because he is the one that created the horrid creature in the first place (Brackett). “As time passed away I became more calm; misery had her dwelling in my heart, but I no longer talked in the same incoherent manner of my own crimes; sufficient for me was the consciousness of them” (Shelley 158). The monster wanted Victor to feel the same thing as him, lonely and sadness. The monsters revenge works, Victor becomes rejected by people and has nobody but himself.

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Examples such as prejudice and guilt are very conspicuous between Victor and Creature; their actions cause them to view each other as a target of hostility and anathema as Victor says, “ For this purpose I will preserve my life: to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever” (173). Both despise each other for their actions, Victor desires the Creature’s death since it brutally murders his friends and families leaving him tormented, while the Creature wants Victor to experience its pain from loneliness and retaliation destroying the female creature who would be his salvation. In the end, guilt from their actions plagues both of them resulting to their ends. Christian bible references consisting mainly of God, Satan, and Adam and Eve apparent throughout the Creature as it compares itself , “[...] no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator [...]

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Even if that means he has to ask a stranger or a friend to finish the job for him. In the quote he claims not to be selfish, even though all he cares about is killing his creation to make himself feel better. Since these are Frankenstein 's last wishes, it foreshadows his death and makes it so he won 't be the one to kill the creature. This quote also tells us that even in his delirious state Victor is still enraged with the creature, which means that he will not die in peace, but disturbed and unfulfilled.

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He didn 't understand why people weren 't nice to him even though he was nice to them. The creature was mad and angry at Victor and decided to take his anger out on his family and killed every single one of them. Victor says “ He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness, in evil: he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end. ”Victor was furious and wanted to destroy the creature once and for all. They both did very awful things to each other.

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