Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Adam Allusion

"Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect." p.92

Upon first meeting the creature, he makes the comparison with him being Adam and Victor being God. As he tells his story and says himself, he is more like Satan. But worse. He argues that even the fallen angel had friends; he has no one. His Adam-like innocence is lost in his overwhelmingly constantly negative interaction with humans. To be honest, it is hard to not justify his actions from his point of view. The creature feels the only way to right the wrongs against him is to torture his creator. The way I think the creature differentiates from the Satan though is that he is not inherently evil but his life has made him a "wretch". 

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