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In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the monster and his creator, Dr. Frankenstein are very similar. However, critic Harold Bloom states: “The monster is at once more intellectual and more emotional than his maker…the monster is more human than his creator.” I agree with this statement. It is the monster’s longing for normalcy, love, and vengeance that make him more human than Dr. Frankenstein. One of the ways the monster is more human than his creator is through his longing for normalcy. When this being awakes in Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, all of his senses rush to him at once. In the story he tells Dr. Frankenstein, it takes the monster a long time to distinguish his senses. After wandering for a while, the monster comes to a village. The monster witnesses an engagement between a young man and woman and follows them back to their cottage. The loving way these people act makes the monster feel “sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature.” After he watches the people