The Creature Is More Like Blake’s Lamb

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.

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