Frankenstein’s monster is like a little lamb because he is a gentle creature that is brought up to this world alone. He has no family and siblings and his creator Victor acted like a bad parent when he abandoned him as soon as the Monster was born. William Blake’s poem “Lamb” resembles Monster, because lamb is a symbol of innocence and pureness. “He is called by the name,

For he calls himself a Lamb:

He is meek & he is mild,

He became a little child:”

Monster is in away a child brought up to this world lonely. Monster does not have friends to play, neither parents to learn about the world. Monster is pure sole whose heart was broken when he was left alone after his birth. His creator, Victor, was terrified of him when the Monster opened his eyes, because it did not turn out to be as he wished. He was working almost two years on this project to make the most beautiful creature of human parts. Victor describes the monster being proportional with black hair and pearl white teeth, but his watery eyes and black colored lips revel contrast or maybe inner struggle. Monster is outcast from this society, because it is very different from humans, and people are scared of him everywhere he goes. He is ugly to the human eye, but his soul is tender as a little lamb. He wants to learn from other people and he wants to have friends, but everything he does human takes as something bad.

Marija Krasojevic

Reading William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” I instantly see a resemblance between Frankenstein’s Creature and Blake’s Tyger. Blake’s Tyger is a metaphor for a creation that has been made by supernatural powers which seem to derive from the underworld while Frankenstein’s Creature has been created by a man at the time filled with the unknown obsession with death and the act of stealing which is a sin also derived from the underworld.

“What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp,

Dare its deadly terrors clasp!”

This stanza is describing how the Tyger was created but also hypothetically asking in what state was it created, as we can already see from the text the Tyger was created to bring deadly terror. By the use of words such as ‘dread’ and ‘dare’ and ‘fearful’ used throughout Blake’s poem we are instantly given the visuals of a creation similar to Frankenstein’s described as “the miserable monster whom I had created.”. Both creators had regretfully created monsters.

The Tyger and the Creature not only share the same purpose but they share the same physical features such as immortal hands and eyes as described by Blake. The Creature is made up of body parts found in the charnel-houses as well as the dissecting room and the slaughter-house, they are of course parts from many different bead bodies. Close to the end of Blake’s poem, he asks a question which could still be asked today “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”, he is questioning how God could create both good and bad implying that humans will never understand the mind of God. As the Creature was not created by God we understand that man does not posses the same powers as God therefore it is no wonder the Creature displayed signs of evil right up until his creator had died.

Sarah Boateng