Like Adam, Frankenstein's monster is the first of his kind created by some other being. The monster, like Adam, had no choice in who he is, what he's made of, or even his own existence. Satan, on the other hand, thrust out of heaven in a dispute with God, made a choice to fight his master and thus ends up with what he gets. This, too, is like Frankenstein's monster. The monster seems to represent both Adam and Satan--initially, without consciousness, he occupies the earth in search of himself; then, when he has found himself, he rebels against his maker and master. Of the two, though, it seems that the monster is much more like Adam--on this earth without a say of his own, left to make of the world what he can.
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