In the beginning of Frederick Douglass’ autobiography, readers see  how African-Americans were treated heinously.  Frederick Douglass witnessed the cruelty of Mr. Plummer and how he brutally whipped Douglass’ Aunt Hester.  As he saw her getting whipped, Douglass writes that he felt like the victim of the abuse.

The newspaper article touches on the idea of women’s lack of power that the film portrays.  In particular, the slave named Esther who was sexually assaulted had absolutely no power.  The article talks about how her silence in the film represents her utter absence of power.  She had no voice to act.

Similarly in Douglass’ autobiography, readers see how only Black women are victims.  There are many cases in his narrative of female slaves getting victimized or beaten.  Unlike those women, Mr. Auld’s wife does not face punishment when she is caught teaching Frederick Douglass how to read.  Black women in Douglass’ autobiography had a lesser role than Black men.  In his story, Black women were always matched with suffering.  Instead of being shielded from danger, they were thrown into pain and were living in suffering.  It seems that for Frederick Douglass, the suffering of Black women gave him a greater hate towards slavery.

William Blake’s The Lamb depicts the lamb as an gentle, dependent animal. Blake emphasizes that the lamb is given life, food, as well as clothes. This shows that the lamb is a dependent creature reliant on the so called one “who made thee”. Frankenstein’s creature can be compared to the Lamb in William Blake’s poem. The creature just like the lamb, is created, given life by its creator. The creature is born innocent and created with Frankenstein’s good heart of intention. A creature is born innocent and “meek and mild”. It is his environment and influence that change it. Later on in the novel, the monster commits murder. These murders are committed because of Frankenstein’s rejection of his creation. The feelings of dejection the creature feels are what influenced it to commit these deeds. Just like the lamb, the creature is born innocent, like a child, as Blake says. When the creature commits murder, it can be compared to the Tyger, as a ruthless creature. However, Blake’s emphasis from both poems, is on the creator. At one point in The Tyger, he says, “Did he who made the lamb make thee?” In my opinion, this reference shows that all animals are created innocent, but change throughout their existence through certain influences. Even in the end, the creature is extremely distraught by Frankenstein’s death. His emotions show that his true nature is innocent and gentle, like that of a lamb. His emotions express his deep devotion toward his creator, just as Blake’s poem emphasizes the lamb’s creator, who gives the lamb food and clothes.

In William Blakes The Tyger, and the Lamb, he depicts two different types of animals and their lifestyles. Which ultimately represent two different types of living. The lamb is one that is more gentle and calm, the lamb needs “its creator” to survive. The Tyger on the other hand is more aggressive and wild, Blake even says in the poem “Did he who make the lamb make thee?” I believe that the relation between the two is more of a nature vs. nurture. When born all animals are innocent, but when they are raised in a hostile environment they must be hostile to survive. But the lamb grows up in a more calm environment where he can graze all day. I believe the Tyger is more similar than the lamb is to the creature. When the creature was created, he was as innocent as anyone else can be, like a baby. But when he was abandoned by his creator, he began to see the atrocities of the world and committed murder. I believe that he committed this shameful act because he wasn’t raised correctly. He did not know right from wrong. Just like the Tyger who kills to survive, I believe Frankenstein did this in order to survive. While the creature is very similar to the Lamb, I believe he really represents the Tyger.

William Blake’s The Lamb depicts the lamb as an gentle, dependent animal. Blake emphasizes that the lamb is given life, food, as well as clothes. This shows that the lamb is a dependent creature reliant on the so called one “who made thee”. Frankenstein’s creature can be compared to the Lamb in William Blake’s poem. The creature just like the lamb, is created, given life by its creator. The creature is born innocent and created with Frankenstein’s good heart of intention. A creature is born innocent and “meek and mild”. It is his environment and influence that change it. Later on in the novel, the monster commits murder. These murders are committed because of Frankenstein’s rejection of his creation. The feelings of dejection the creature feels are what influenced it to commit these deeds. Just like the lamb, the creature is born innocent, like a child, as Blake says. When the creature commits murder, it can be compared to the Tyger, as a ruthless creature. However, Blake’s emphasis from both poems, is on the creator. At one point in The Tyger, he says, “Did he who made the lamb make thee?” In my opinion, this reference shows that all animals are created innocent, but change throughout their existence through certain influences. Even in the end, the creature is extremely distraught by Frankenstein’s death. His emotions show that his true nature is innocent and gentle, like that of a lamb. His emotions express his deep devotion toward his creator, just as Blake’s poem emphasizes the lamb’s creator, who gives the lamb food and clothes.

The creature created by Frankenstein is more like Blake’s Lamb. Right after it’s creation, it is born like a baby that needs to be taken care of and taught. However, Frankenstein, horrified by what he had just created, runs away and leaves the creature to ponder around on its own. Without knowing anything, the creature just walking around and exploring realize that people are afraid of him. When the creature watched over the humans in the cottage, it was touched by their gentle manners and longed to join them. “This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottages, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots, which I gathered from a neighbouring wood” (63). The creature is understanding and has a soft heart. As in Blake’s “The Lamb,” the lamb is gentle and like a child. The creature is gentle in nature like a lamb and also like a child that needs to be loved, taken care of and taught the right things. The creature is not evil, but only makes mistakes because of its circumstances. One being the time he is attacked and chased away when the villagers see him. The creature looks like a monster; “his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips” (30) as described by Frankenstein. Naturally, humans who see the creature gets afraid and either run away from it or choose to attack it. After being treated like a monster, the creature is simply angry and lost its way. Even after enduring everything, it tells Frankenstein it just wants a female version of him so that he can be happy too and that he will leave once he has her. The creature was born with a heart like Blake’s lamb.

The modern idea of the creature created by Victor Frankenstein is just a monster, without feelings or senses. This is apparent in the clips of the creation of the monster — they portray the creation as a huge life changing event in which Frankenstein is obsessed with the process, and the monster was extremely desired by him. Unlike the clips, Shelly’s version only briefly even focuses on the creation and once it is finally created is rejected by Frankenstein who even runs away from it. In both the monster is thought to be a hideous and scary thing, although it seems as though the films focused more on the idea of a hideous monster rather than a living creature. In the book, the creature starts off as just a hideous monster but Victor learns to discover that although it doesn’t have the best intentions, the monster is able think articulately and speak eloquently. The greatest difference between the two is the general focus of characters. The films are trying to show Frankensteins role in creating the creature, showing his excitement and mad rage when he is created. The book is really trying to show the creatures effects on the thoughts and emotions of Frankenstein. The book doesn’t even focus on the creation, but rather the monsters influence over the course of the book.

Date 10.05.2016

In the real world, lamb always stand for the “pure”. The purest thing in our live is the baby! The poet wrote that the lamb “ became a little child”, this shows the lamb is a symbol of “pure”. In the end of the novel, the Creature said “I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness”. This sentence shows me that the Creature was first a lovely “child” when he was first invented. All he had right now was the result of the evil world, is the result of how other people down to him.

        There always a “lamb” living in the Creature’s heart. At the end of the novel, the Creature had said “ Still I desired love and fellowship”. The next sentence he said: “and I was still spurned”. It was not strange that the Creature is more like to the lamb, because after all those negative experience, he still owns a “soft” inner. On chapter five of the novel, when the Creature was created, the description of it is “ His jaws opened…… while a grin wrinkled his cheeks”. The Creature was trying to smile and say thank you. This shows that his nature is good.

Lastly, look at the realistic, how most people call the Creature? Most people will call the Creature as “Frankenstein”, even though Frankenstein is the name of the creator. Now look at the poem, “Little lamb, I’ll tell thee: He is called by thy name”, the creator of the lamb has same name as the lamb. Frankenstein also can be refered to the Creature!

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Two poems by William Blake, “ The Tyger “ and “ The Lamb” written about creature. I think Creature of animals is more like a Tyger. When I read those poems I think The Tyger is more life aggressive creature and Lamb is opposite way which is very “sweet” , “ unadulterate” and “ weak” not exactly weak but shows in like that by saying, “He became a little child:”. Blake shows how Tyger and Lamb is different creature. The Lamb is more soft and delight but Tyger is more angry, showing strong resentment characters. In the poem it is explains by itself by using unique words that describes both of creature. Poems are very unique way explained two different creature. When I read the poem The Tyger, I think it is more life very strong and very powerful character like it says in the poem “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” by using this extremely strong words it is explains Tyger have very strength and immortal which is means not dying that cannot be die really fast or not even could die. In my personal point of view Tyger is more like evoked by the creature and it shows in Frankenstein’s monster creature. In the poem it explains with more motivation using , “ In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?”. This means how Tyger is very powerful and fearless, that have fire eyes. “On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?” This is explains how he looks like kind of showing, the Tyger have wings which stronges side too. Frankenstein’s creature is immortal and very powerful as Tyger. These two characters are similar to each others.  Blake’s poem “ The Tyger “ shows similar reaction as well, how the Tyger is more immortal and have strong body and mind that looks like Frankenstein’s creature. Blake using metaphor, setting and characteristic in his poem to express his thought how Tyger is looks like. “Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night:” probably using words “bright” and “night” gives more definition to how he showing Tyger strong that could shine in the night time. Overall, in my point of view, the novel and poem creatures are similar to each others because they are facing same looks and similar personality also I compare Tyger to Creature.

I assume that the creature is more like “Blake’s Tyger”. It might seem that the Creature was born innocent, naïve and free of guilt as George said, but I have a question here : Does the Creature have any beauties in his appearance? The birth of the creature is depicted as a catastrophe from the creator in the novel. The creator of Frankenstein was disgusted with the creature and rushed out of the room. Everyone is love and blessed from their family when they are born. Even if they are abandoned by their family, they find a friend or a partner and share thoughts and feelings in their life once at least. However, because of the creature’s hideous appearance he never makes a friend and even stays away from human in his whole life. People fear the creature and we can feel the fear in Blake’s Tyger as well. Moreover, we feel sympathize with the creature because he is mistreated by society and he cannot even achieve a simple dream such as a marriage in his life. In the poem, Black asks that deity could have created fearful symmetry such as a tiger and says, “When the stars threw down their spears/ And water’d heaven with their tears/ Did he smile his work to see?/ Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” as if the creature would speak and think. The sad creature with no friend; He has always been an outcast, unwanted and alone and finishes his life by committing suicide.

Therefore, I assumes the creature is more like Blake’s Tyger!

The creature created by Victor Frankenstein in Shelly’s “Frankenstein” is this hideous monster that was a result of madness. The creature held demonic and evil characteristics. In the novel a side of beauty and sensitivity shows up in his personality when wanted love and acceptance from a family, but that was just a cover hiding his true persona. After being rejected, his true emotions arise. He became violent and filled with hate and evil, with murder in his eyes he killed and burned the cottage of the family that didn’t accept him. The creature was truly a monster and like most monsters and killers he was hiding until that one moment that allowed him to be who he is. Just like the tiger from William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”. The tiger in this poem is a beautiful animal “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night…. And what shoulder, and what art, could twist the sinews of thy heart?” says William Blake. At first glance this animal looks like beautiful creation, but one look into his eyes and a monsters appears. A monsters that craves nothing but the blood of its prey. This is why the creature from “Frankenstein” resembles the tiger and not the lamb from William Blake’s poems.

Movies and films are created for the entertainment of the viewer, and have almost always been an over dramatized, if not, a completely different adaptation the novels or literature that they portray. This fact is clearly proven when comparing the movie clips from “The Creature” to the Frankenstein novel by Shelly. In the movie clip when Victor Frankenstein brings the creature to life, he is overwhelmed with excitement, happiness, and a feeling of great success. Meanwhile, in the novel, Frankenstein gets hit with a sudden feeling of regret as he stares at what he created and sees nothing but a monster.  You notice in the novel the author doesn’t focus much on the creation of the “The creature”. Shelly however focuses on the attitude and mentality of Frankenstein and how he develops his feelings starting from coming up with the idea of bringing life to a human body, then building up to the creation itself and how he becomes possessed with the feeling of sadness and regret. The movie focuses on “The Creature” and builds you up to the moment of creation. As the viewer you become excited to see what the creation will look like and how it would react to coming back to life. The movie in this case turns a moment of sadness and disappointment into a moment of success and celebration.