Similarities Between Of Mice And Men And Frankenstein

The Evil in Our Society
Two people who are two of the nicest people in literature have been discriminated against. They have been treated like dirt and have never been accepted by most of society, all because of their looks. Lennie from John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men and the Creature from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are those characters and both have contributed to the themes of their stories that society’s prejudice is the real villain. Lennie and the Creature have both been discriminated against. In of Mice and Men, Curly clearly holds a grudge against Lennie simply because of his size and looks. The Creature in Frankenstein is discriminated by people to the point where people avoid/run away from him upon seeing him. Even his own creator, Victor Frankenstein, fled after seeing his creation’s appearance. To make matters worse, people’s opinions became even more negative after both characters had committed crimes, intentional or not. In fact, Lennie’s unintentional murder of Curly’s wife resulted in him being killed. The creature didn’t have it as bad since Victor managed to keep the Creature’s existence a secret from everybody. However, Victor’s attitude towards the Creature became

The Creature was insanely smart while Lennie wasn’t that smart and had a learning disability. This is shown by how each character committs their crime. The Creature was smart enough to target Elizabeth, Victor’s wife, on her wedding night, which was when Victor would be the most emotionally affected. Lennie’s crime was unintentional, he was simply trying to keep Curly’s wife quiet but accidentally broke her neck with his superhuman strength. Another difference was that the Creature had no one who accepted him while Lennie had George who did. The Creature had no one who loved him so it was hard for him to care for anyone while Lennie knew compassion since George would take care of