“How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!- Great God! 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 coulour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips” (p. 60).
Mary Shelley brought much of the Genesis story to the spotlight in her novel Frankenstein. The Creation Story was the key point in the novel. Shelley describes how Frankenstein was created and the way he appeared. In the book of Genesis, God was the Creator of Adam and Eve. Victor in the novel is described as the Creator of the monster. He had control of the monsters appearance and how to act just like God.
In chapter seventeen, Frankenstein tells the doctor that he wants someone the opposite of sex so that he can have a wife. This is another connection to the Genesis story because Adam and Eve were created. Victor stated that, “his words had a strange effect on me. I compassioned him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but then I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought, that I could not sympathise with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow” (130). Victor was empathetic towards Frankenstein and knew that he wanted someone to love him like any other human being would want to be loved. In the book of Genesis, God wanted Adam and Eve to love each other.
All-in-all Mary Shelley brought much connection to the First Testament of the Bible into the novel. It allowed her to be more creative and to make some association of religion and atheism into it. People can look at it in many different ways, but it shows that Mary Shelley was trying to be imaginative in her own way.
