The Lamb and The Creature

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.

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