A Comparison of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

A Comparison of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

I will be comparing the novels ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley and ‘Of

Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck. I will focus on how the main outcasts

in each book feel and how their emotions are presented and what

effects this has on the reader.

The novel Frankenstein is about a man Victor Frankenstein, who grew up

in Geneva, Switzerland as an eldest son of a quite wealthy and happy

family. His parents adopted an orphan Elizabeth, who later becomes his

wife. Frankenstein wasn’t very popular although he had a good friend

called Henry Cleval. At a young age he found the need to learn and at

19 he went to a University in Ingolstadt, Germany. Here he found his

need to learn even greater and his interests soon became an obsession.

After four years of intensive studying he took his work further and

created life from different parts of the human body taken graveyards,

slaughterhouses and dissecting rooms. When the creature awoke he

realised that he had created a monster, but what Victor hadn’t

realised was that it had feelings like any other human being. Out of

his nervousness when the monster disappeared, he caught a fever which

his good friend Henry Cleval nursed him back to health.

As he went home he was informed of his brother’s death, and when he

saw the creature again he knew it was the monster. Scared of what his

family might think he decided not to tell them but he let his

knowledge of the real killer mentally torture him, especially when

Justine a good friend of the family was accused and hanged for murder.

He left the house and went wandering in the valle...

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... in his pocket as a pet. The way

Steinbeck writes throughout the novel about how Lennie is an

incredible worker and can lift twice as much as other men emphases

Lennie’s incredible strength. The way Lennie always talks about the

rabbit’s gains him a lot of sympathy from the reader as it is the kind

of thing a child would talk about. Another time Steinbeck makes the

reader feel sorry for Lennie is when he accidentally kills the puppy

which he loved dearly, this shows that he does not always follows

George’s commands and it can get him into trouble. During the story

the writer does not want the reader to hate Lennie even through he

commits a serious crime the reader still feels sympathy for him as he

acts in the only way that he knows how.

At the end of both of the stories the two characters are hunted for

revenge.