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One Beast to Another In many novels throughout American and Non-American Literature, enemies often share striking similarities. In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and his Creature are two sides of one person. Victor is to his Creature as Dr. Jeckle is to Mr. Hyde. As Dr. Jeckle created Mr. Hyde, so did Frankenstein create his Creature, whom was never named. They are unwillingly attached and inseparable. Both despise each other, and strangely enough, both despise themselves. There is a power struggle between the two foes. Worst of all, both end up alone. Perhaps the greatest similarity between Frankenstein and the Creature is their great animosity for one another. The Creature told Frankenstein himself that he “…declared everlasting war against the species, and more all, against him who had formed me and sent forth to this insupportable misery.”(113) The Creature hates Frankenstein for creating him, but most of all for abandoning him. Victor also hates the Creature, but for a different reason. Victor shouted in rage, “Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search, until he or I perish; and then with wh