iguredbeast. The very monster who has murdered all of Frankenstein's loved ones is himself a tortured soul,and the strange, misshapen creature--who has studied Plutarch and read Milton--cries out to hishuman maker in such eloquent anguish that we cannot help being moved. then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things ... Oh Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due ... Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. At first glance, Stevenson's story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde doesn't seem to invite much pity forthe villain Edward Hyde, the murderous dwarf whom the character Dr. Lanyon describes as"something seizing, surprising and revolting" and who, according to Henry Jekyll, "alone in the ranks ofmankind, was pure evil." Still, when Jekyll's manservant Poole hears the poor creature "weeping like awoman or a lost soul," he admits to having come "away with that upon my heart" and comments "that Icould have wept too." The truth is that for all his physical and moral deformities, Hyde, too, is but "afilthy type" of his maker, a doppelganger of Henry Jekyll, "knit to him closer than a wife, closer than aneye," and the physical manifestation of all his vile and unruly passion. And though he is not as eloquentas Frankenstein's beast, Hyde could well have quoted Milton's Paradise Lost to his all-too-humancreator. "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness topromote me." And even in Dracula there is a trace of compassion for the monstrous Prince of the Undead, theviper who takes a dozen repulsive forms....
