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.