Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is filled with various underlying themes, the crux being the effect society has on The Creature's personality. ... However, if one were to correlate and contrast Shelly's masterpiece with another, the greatest work would be the creation story in Genesis. ... Mary Shelley used a deep, gothic theme to get several different points across, and made it interesting by paralleling the main characters with the characters of a well- known story....

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The novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, deals with a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who embodies a creature, who eventually wreaks havoc on his life. The novel Lost Paradise, by John Milton, exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God within the characters God, Satan, Adam, and Eve...

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In my opinion this theme of man's search for knowledge ultimately leading to "fall" of humanity is also present in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... Shelly wrote in her introduction, "Frightful must it be for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the creator of the world" (viii). ...

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