When the Wretch is “born”, he was innocent and free of sin. The Creature wasn’t made for evil or to bring fear to anyone. This, in my belief, makes the Creature more like William Blake’s Lamb than his Tyger. In Blake’s poem, he writes “Gave thee clothing of delight, / Softest clothing wooly bright” (The Lamb) and in the novel, Frankenstein created the Creature with features he saw as beautiful, “His limbs were in proportion, and I selected his features as beautiful.” (Chapter 4, paragraph 2). The Lamb and the Creature were both created without malicious thought and made to be wonderful creations amongst society. The Tyger, on the other hand, gives off a theme a fear and evil from the very beginning, unlike the Creature, who sins only began with his exile from the world around him. In volume 2 of the novel, the Creature says, “I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity” (Chapter 2, paragraph 12). The latter relates to the Lamb because he is too “meek…mild…[and] a little child” (Blake). The Tyger’s is never portrayed as being naïve or innocent, in fact, the whole poem dedicated to the Tyger has a very dark feeling that only develops in the Creature as the novel progresses, but isn’t prominent in the Creature upon “birth”. The Lamb represents the Creature as he is on the inside despite his flaws and actions. The Creature doesn’t mean harm, and unlike the Tyger who was made with “fearful symmetry” (Blake) from its very beginning.

A creation is a reflection of the creator’s image. “The Tyger” by William Blake delineates how such a creator or God would design a beast with physically hidden and hideous traits of aggression and wrath. The first and last stanzas within the poem describe the bright orange skin largely covering the animal’s body. Seeing it during the night within a jungle would strike immediate fear into a person’s eyes and hearts, and the poet clearly states this fear in the third stanza. Why would a supernatural entity or intellectual creator conjure up a beast such as the tiger? This question is inextricably linked with why Victor Frankenstein creates “the Creature” in the story. Both the creature and the tiger share common traits of exhibiting neural trepidation of death due to their menacing looks. The creature is also easily conspicuous such as the tiger’s brightness since they are both considered dangerous living things and when seen strike adrenaline alert. Victor’s creation of a hideous creature can be akin to why God would also design a jungle animal that slaughters preys on sight, it is this terror explained in the fourth stanza that Blake continually questions as to why God created this animal. Both living things are complexly designed by their own creators and indicate creation as an art of designing feet, hearts, hands, and shoulders. The outcome of the creature to be good or bad does not matter. The process of just creating something is itself an art.

Although towards the end of the novel Frankenstein’s creature becomes violent and dangerous as the tiger, in the beginning, and even at the very end, the Creature can be seen as most resembling William Blake’s lamb. Blake states that the lamb is “called by his [creator’s] name” and, therefore, can be seen as sharing its creator’s characteristics for both are “meek” and “mild.”  At the beginning of the Creature’s life, he too is for a while meek and mild. He is brought into a new and unknown world and abandoned. This forced the Creature to explore and discover the world on his own. In doing so, he came across a little shack attached to a family’s cottage. In that shack, he took shelter for several months. He found a little hole in which he can watch and observe the family on who’s property he was unknowingly staying on. He watched the family interact with, care for, and love each other, and this aroused many positive emotions in the Creature. He was feeling happy and compassionate and longed to be a part of such a loving environment.  He came to care for this family, who did not even know that he existed, so much that he began to do some of their chores at night in order to surprise and delight them in the mornings. Even after his later violent episodes the Creature still resembled the lamb, for when Frankenstein had passed away on the ship the Creature confessed to Walton that he felt bad for what he had done to Frankenstein, but that all he ever wanted was to be accepted, loved, and happy.

I believe that the creature is much more like Blakes “The Tyger”, I believe this because of the use of words that were in the poem, they were much more angry and it came across as scary to me. It fits perfectly with Frankensteins creature because when he became alive, Frankenstein loathed him and was scared of him. The poem uses words more eery like “fearful” and “burnt fire”. In the book Frankenstein is so excited to see this creature he creates, after year and years of research and studies he put is life into wanted to create the impossible. After it gets down to it, he soon becomes completely terrified by this monster and disgusted by him, the monster is a massive and ugly. This monster becomes Frankensteins absolute worst nightmare. In the poem it says “What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp!” This quote reminds me of when he sees the creature come alive, dread comes over him and he becomes terrified. The poem “The Lamb” is the exact opposite of Frankensteins reaction and the creature himself, he is not soft or gentle in any way. In the Tyger the line “Burnt the fire of thine eyes?” stands out to me, to me the ‘fire’ sounds like evil. Frankenstein saw pure evil in this monsters eyes. When he found out his brother was killed he knew that this monster did it and chose not to tell anyone about this creature, that since he created has now ruined his life. “The Tyger” seems to me a much darker poem which is why I felt that it fit with the creature and his becoming into a killer and Frankensteins fear of him.

I strongly believe that the creature that Frankenstein created is more like “The Lamb”, rather than “The Tyger.” The lamb is described in the poem as beautiful, soft, and innocent. “Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice!” The lamb is portrayed as a harmless and beautiful animal. It has a gentle voice, and the softest of skins. The lamb is peaceful and calm, representing a fresh start. This is where I see the resemblance with the creature. The creature was made by Frankenstein and then abandoned. The creature was born free of guilt, not harming anyone or anything. Eventually after it is treated poorly throughout the novel, the creature strikes back and kills a couple of humans. The lamb and the creature that Victor Frankenstein had created have multiple traits that are comparable. When the creature was “born”, it was a fresh start. It could have learned to act in which ever way it was taught to. It was innocent, and naive just like the lamb. “The Tyger” on the other hand is portrayed as a vicious animal that is ready to kill. The poem describes the animal as malicious and brutal. The poem asks what kind of being could have created such a violent animal. This animal is not comparable to the creature because the creature only learned to kill after it was repeatedly treated unfairly. Therefore, I feel that since both the lamb and the creature are born innocent, gentle, naive and free of guilt, they are more similar to each other than to “The Tyger.”