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A 7-page treatise answering the question of how Viktor Frankenstein and his creature came to resemble each other over the course of the book; and how Achebe treated his white characters as opposed to his black ones in Things Fall Apart. Lists 2 sources.
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creature, but Viktor Frankenstein himself. The creature is, in his own description, born pure, innocent and good. But his creator, "Dr." Frankenstein (in actuality, in the book, only a medical
student, and not that great a one, at that), is anything but. Missing, apparently, even the most rudimentary moral compunctions and sense of empathy or responsibility, he learns little from
his creation until the very end of the tale. By then, the two have come full circle and have become remarkably like one another. The creature himself undergoes the most
striking-and disheartening-change. At first, simply possessed of a longing to know himself and a desire to be with others of his kind, he is transformed through his contact with other
humans (most notably Viktor Frankenstein himself) into that which he sees in his reflection in the muddy pond: a "monster" (Shelley 1818). He goes from a good and caring creature
(he saves a girl from drowning, only to be stoned and chased by the horrified villagers) to one capable of murder (and perhaps other atrocities as well), all in a
very short time. Frankenstein himself (in what may have been a prototypical description of the modern scientist) seems to have no feelings or even interest in anything except the work
that he has chosen for himself. Yet when he, after months of disgusting, horrifying work, finally brings his creation to life, he is repulsed, horrified and sickened, so much so
that he abandons his creature, leaving it to die (he assumes) with no thought for any possible feelings or any hint of remorse or responsibility (Shelley 1818). When confronted at
last by the now-articulate and plaintive creature some time later, he still shows no indication of any human feeling for what he created, nor does he accept in any way
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