se of his abandonment of all he knows. According to Tropp, All of things man makes are to some extent copies of himself (Tropp 65). He deliberately and selfishly chose to make [him] an imperfect image of himself (Walling 46). The motive for Frankensteins creation is his desire to bring forth a new species (Walling 45). This makes Victor selfish because he does not stop to think what havoc the new species could cause or the horror that it might cause him and others later. Also during his studies he loses himself in his work. It was as if [he] had been animated by an almost unnatural enthusiasm (33). His true failure, though, stems from the poverty of his imagination and from the inadequacy of his love. Frankensteins other tragic flaw comes from trying to be a god or godlike. He wished to learn the secrets of heaven (Walling 37). Frankenstein soon grasped and solved great cosmic riddles (Tropp 63). He therefore looses all touch with reality. Too late, Frankenstein realizes that this detachment from human feeling has been the cause of much of the worlds misery (Tropp 65). Victor is the picture of a finite god at war with, and eventually overcome by his creation (Oates 250). He momentarily commands divine power only to be destroyed by it (Tropp 56). Frankenstein shows to depart from his dream of becoming godlike in direct proportion to his failure to love his family and his work (Walling 45). The monster has flaws man cannot have or posses. The monster is demonic and Satan-like. He is the monstrous double of Lucifer (Tropp 68). The monster turned from archangel to arch destroyer. In Paradise lost, after the meeting a Pandemonium, Satan decides to fly to earth and inspect gods latest creation. Taking the form of a cormorant, he perches on a tree in Eden and secretly observes Adam and Eve in the garden. After the monster has left the shepherds hut, traveled to a village, and been driven out in a hail of stones, it hides i...
