Frankenstein Doubling

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein uses the technique of doubling throughout the novel. The doubling relates three characters to each other. At the beginning of the story, we see the similarities between Walton and Frankenstein. We see how each of them have close sister like relationships, and each has a curiosity into how the natural world works. Frankenstein wants to know the secret of life, while Walton wants to know the secret of magnetism. More doubling takes place in the second half of the book between Frankenstein and his creation. Victor abandons his creature, leaving him alone by himself. Throughout the story, the creature makes Victor try to feel it feels. The creature lives without a friend in the world, and the creature makes that the life of Victor as well. He kills all of Victor's closest friends and family members. Frankenstein says :Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed" (Shelley 97). The monster hates himself so much, just as Frankenstein does after creating the creature. The two characters parallel throughout the story, showing how Victor and the creature he loathes so much are not all that different, and are actually the same.