Comparision of Frankenstein to Paradise Lost

From the first look at the Frankenstein’s creation, you could see a complex relationship between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, was the reaction to reading the poem. And she used allusions to Paradise Lost in Frankenstein to help illuminate many central ideas of the work. Victor’s creature, born innocent, tried to fit in the world that he was put into. But the constant rejection and isolation from the very beings that he longed to interact with caused him to evolve into a self-acknowledged Satan, from Paradise Lost. Frankenstein’s creature relates the two stories to each other, and the conditions that caused his transformation ties him with Adam and Satan.
Like Satan, the monster was created to be beautiful. But he ends up falling from his creator’s grace and becomes a perversion of beauty. The monster is cast away from his creator’s presence just as Satan is cast out of heaven. This comparison...