"It is not good for the man to be all alone." (Genesis 2:18)

“It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. I often referred the several situations, as their similarity struck me, to my own. Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He had come forth from the hand of God a perfect creature, happy, and prosperous, guarded by special care of his creator…I was wretched, helpless, and alone. Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition” (page 124).
Mary Shelley often alludes to God and his first creation of Adam. This common allusion can be seen in the quote above, when the monster takes a liking to Paradise Lost and compares it to his own life. Though I’ve never read Paradise Lost myself, I have heard the story of creation millions of times. The monster does parallel with Adam. Victor used science to play God and create a human being, who was different from everyone else. Like Adam, the monster was alone and the only one of his kind. He begged for a companion, except, unlike God, Victor did not grant him a friend. Therefore, Victor turned against his creator and sinned many times because he did not get what he needed. Shelley uses this allusion because it relates another lonely human being to the monster. It’s easy to imagine how lonely Adam must have felt as the only human being on the Earth. By comparing his loneliness to the monster’s, the reader can empathize more easily with the monster.