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Comparative Analysis of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

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up a paintbrush and the musicians intention when he composes a symphony. It provides the allure of seeing a perfect sunset or a rainbow after a summer thunderstorm, and  is what is first glimpsed when looking into a loved ones eyes. Beauty represents perfection; something human beings fall short of by the basis of their humanity. However  impossible to translate in human form, it is human nature to constantly attempt the impossible. Unfortunately, however, the attainment of beauty can easily become an obsession, which can have  disastrous consequences. It is the destructive power of beauty that is thoughtfully considered by Mary Shelley in her 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein, and by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of  Dorian Gray, which was first published in 1890. The protagonists in each novel long to create and nurture beauty, which they believe will fulfill their sense of purpose, while  at the same time, ensure their immortality in humankind. Victor Frankenstein is a scientist but he is also an artist who seeks to create beauty from atrocity by breathing life  into dead body parts. He believes by introducing the world to his interpretation of beauty, he will achieve a status that had previously been reserved only for God.  He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufactured by science and that because of the painstaking care, beauty will be the  inevitable result. However, when the monster is brought to life, the reaction is hardly rapture: "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!