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Similarities Between Macbeth And Frankenstein

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As Jack Welch said, “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” Of the characters from the two books, Frankenstein and Macbeth the characters Macbeth, the creature, and Frankenstein showed their weaknesses and showed the lack of balance that their lives consisted of. Not all the characters had a work life, but they all made choices and they had to deal with the repercussions, whether they wanted to or not. The first character, Macbeth, showed a variety of weaknesses. Macbeth was a very power-hungry individual, which ultimately led to him becoming selfish. The incident that led to the change in character would be when he had a chance in becoming king. “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter” (Act 1 scene 3, line 53). This quote from …show more content…

The weakness that he showed would be how when he wanted something, he wanted it immediately, no matter what the circumstances were. There were a few different instances that could have altered the balance. The first one is when Victor left right after creating the creature. The creature had no one in the world to show him how to exist in society. The next thing that could have altered the balance would be when Victor said “no” to creating a mate for the creature. The thing that could’ve helped the creature maintain the balance would be if Victor was a part of the creature's life. The creature needed someone to show him how to be a functioning member of society, talk to others, and someone to talk to others in general. This already wasn’t very settling for the creature because he was alone and couldn’t rely on anyone to help him. Once Victor said “no” to the request for a mate, the creature set out to ruin Victor’s life. The creature killed Victor’s little brother and Victor’s wife. Truthfully, there isn’t anything that could’ve made the creature’s life

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An example that can identify Victor as being the true villain in the story is Victor's lack of thought and deposition when he sees the creature he had created. He states that he is “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep”(Shelley 59). This quote exemplifies how Victor immediately despises the creature based on its looks and abandons it rather than taking the creature under his wing to give it guidance and care. It also demonstrates the ambition of creating new life for scientific achievement, without considering the consequences. Another example that we see victor lack a sense of guidance and responsibility is his talk with the creature he states that he “consents” to the monster's request and will “deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you”(Shelley 159).

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When he, “trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.” , Victor, while being watched by his creation, has not only put himself in danger, but also the lives of his family (Pg. 145). His disregard for the creature’s ability to inflict pain to him and his family illustrates an evident lack of responsibility and maturity. Victor is seemingly unphased by the creature’s threats, and even proclaims that “Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness” (Pg. 146).

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From looking at the point of view in his initial acceptance of creating a mate for the creature, I believe it shed light that Victor realized that he has duties and obligations to his society and himself included; no other person as well as Victor would have to come across the creature. Although Victor’s decision changes later in the story, he initially was convinced by the creature that the situation would be fixed if he was given a female mate similar to himself, ugly and unwanted When he abandoned and left the creature behind in the beginning, he never gave it the chance to have a normal life destroying a hopeful future for him. But when the creature finds Victor, it asks for one thing and one thing only, to have a mate and live a life without the pain of being alone and unaccepted on earth. Initially, Victor may have thought to himself that what he did was not completely fair, but for the most part, he wants to rid of the monster that killed William as well.

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“A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.’’ He shows that he truly loves creating but is filled with hatred from what he has created because it has killed the ones he loves. This isn't just the creatures doing; Victor has been the one to make him into what he is. Victor would not let the creature have a mate and rejected him causing it to kill all of his loved ones and flee away. “Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child.

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Victor also had to deal with the consequences of his actions. He was ostracized by society and was viewed as a monster and a criminal. He was forced to flee from his home and had to live in hiding. He was unable to find peace or solace in any place he went. The creature, on the other hand, had

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In addition, Victor has people who care about him and is accepted by others. The Creature is lonely, uneducated, abandoned by his creator and shunned by both society and Victor. Victor has everything he needs and could want but he is not satisfied with that. The Creature doesn’t have anything (no love from its creator, or others) but he is fine with it until his environment rejects him and he kills William and Victor refuses to create a female companion for him, he becomes opposing to Victor and starts to kill everyone that Victor cares

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He learns from his previous rash actions. But still, Victor doesn’t take on complete responsibility. Victor isn’t at Mary Shelly’s ideal yet. Taking on full responsibility would mean either taking the creature into his own arms as a father would a son, or killing the creature. Instead, Victor sets out to make a female companion for the creature, so that Victor doesn’t have to see the creature ever again.

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“I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race” (186). Victor sacrificed the peace he wanted for himself and accepted the lifelong torment of the creature, a consequence of his broken promise. Victor did this for the greater good of humanity, recognizing the power of his choice to create or not to create, as well as the power of the creature. Victor had to discover the hard way, how powerful the creature became when reading letters like this one from his father, “About five in the morning, I discovered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and in active health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murder’s finger was on his neck” (72). What Victor thought he was doing to save his family and friends, ended up being the thing that killed them.

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Immersing ourselves in the story of both Frankenstein and Macbeth, we invest in the lives of the characters and their interactions. These two tales tell about the lives of Victor Frankenstein and Macbeth, as well as how they’re effected by the supernatural. Looking into how their encounters with supernatural forces give each tale a turning point, and how each little twist from then on is taken into different accounts, many of which will be addressed. During the beginning of each story, there are supernatural events that start with a creepy feeling that hangs in the air, giving a little bit of a hint to the rest of each story.

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Furthermore, Victor's decision to neglect the Creature furthers nature's retribution. Initially, the nature of the Creature is kind, thoughtful, and curious. However, as he interacts with humanity, he devolves into a malicious nature. Rather than this being the Creature's true nature, it is the result of his environment. Nobody was there to nurture the Creature because it was grotesque; thus, society rejected it, resulting in its malicious nature.

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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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The monster fought for affection by trying to threaten Victor into creating a spouse for it. “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede” (Shelley 104). This situation was the first time the beast tried to establish it’s dominance over the creator. The only reason the monster felt the need to hold power over Victor was to gain a sense of emotion and affection as it has seen other humans do.

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Has your desire to want something taken you over? Sometimes your aspiration consumes your thoughts and that is all you can think of but is there a point where it becomes dangerous? In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” we learn about two characters whose passion consumes their life both literally and figuratively. In each story, the characters both have a goal that they want to achieve, but their intentions lead them to a loss of friendship and a cause of death.

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Good morning esteemed members of the Australian curriculum, assessment and reporting authority, it is my great pleasure today to be speaking here on why the study of the canon in English should be extended beyond the flawed classic canon. Traditionally, a canon is a series of texts which are said to be texts of “greatest value” and typically consists of text written by dead, white, European males. By simply acknowledging this, there is no doubt that texts written by such a narrow criteria of authors would inspire great prejudice and bias. Through comparisons of the classic play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, and the modern novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, it will be highlighted that although both texts are unarguably great sources for education, through their representations of universal themes, human dilemma, and their appeal to future readers, “Frankenstein” is an equal, or superior text which should undoubtedly be included in the classic canon. In our modern society of digital technology, it is

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In reality, he is disgusted by the sight of his creation so he abandons it leaving it all alone in the world without any guidance and runs away to the next room. Victor himself suffered from being a social outcast and now he bestowed the same feeling onto the creature by abandoning him. By treating the creature as an outcast, “he will become wicked … divide him, a social being, from society, and you impose upon him the irresistible obligations—malevolence and selfishness” (Caldwell). Not only is Victor selfish for abandoning his creature but he is shallow as well. Instead of realizing that he achieved his goal of bringing life to an inanimate body he runs way because of how hideous it is.

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