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 shows how something created to be great can be easily perverted into something loathsome and utterly different than its original purpose. Rejection is one of the biggest themes in both stories. Satan was one of God's heavenly children but was ultimately rejected by God. And so he fell with his companions to "hell." On the other hand, the monster fell alone, and he himself brings this fact to the attention of both Victor and the readers, saying that his loneliness was the most loathsome part of his existence. Both the monster and Satan do not attack his creator in retaliation. Instead, they both attack those closest to the their creators, inflicting much more pain than any direct attack could. The pain caused by the attacks on the close companions illustrates the romantic idea that close companions are essential to life and the peace of the individual. " Like Adam, I was apparently uni
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