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Discuss the significance of Father Figures in Frankenstein

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English

 

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January 9, 2015

 

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In this essay, I will endeavour to discuss not only the significance of the familial relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his creature, but that of Victor and Alphonso Frankenstein, Henry Clerval and his father amongst others. As Allen notes, the most obvious parallel between creator and creature in Shelley's Frankenstein is that of God and Adam in the opening chapters of Genesis in the Bible (Reading Frankenstein, 2006, p...
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The creature himself actually compares himself more to Satan however saying, "I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel"(p.77). However as Thompson points out, there are veiled references to the Biblical Adam's eldest son Cain (Thompson, Shelley?s Frankenstein, 2006) who was seen as a misfit, rebelliously so and more importantly the first murderer, sentenced to wander the earth, without his father or family and outcast until the end of days (in the same manner as the monster, it wasn't until he had taken the life of William Frankenstein, that his fate was sealed)...
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