The Monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlie from Flowers for Algernon have many similarities. “People don't talk to me much anymore or kid around the way they used to. It makes the job kind of lonely”. In the sentence, Charlie explains how, as he grew smarter, everyone became afraid of him and avoided him, making him feel lonely. “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.” Here the Monster is pleading with Frankenstein to make him a partner because he feels the need to have a female companion. Explanation: They both have had procedures/operations done on time to either make them alive or smarter and they both slowly are getting smarter by observing. Also …show more content…
“What did I do to make them hate me so?” Charlie said this after quitting his job. “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.” the Monster questioned who were his relations after observing Felix and his wife. The biggest difference is Charlie is an actual human being and the Monster is someone to was made with dead body parts. Another difference is the reasons for how they got their procedures done. Charlie did it to become smarter and the Monster was made by Frankenstein because he wanted to create life and he wanted to be God. Also, I feel that they have different intelligence because Charlie is academically intelligent and the Monster is more emotionally intelligent. Because even though Charlie was becoming smarter he still couldn’t tell why his coworkers were scared of him or “hated” him. And it only took the Monster a few days of observation to tell his emotions and his