Make comparisons between Shelley's Gothic novel Frankenstein, Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, published in 1667, and Coleridge's allegorical poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published in 1797.

Paradise Lost was an important text for the Romantic poets. Satan in that work held a particular fascination, and people like Mary Shelley's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, praised the "energy and magnificence" of him.
Mary Shelley took a darker view. Her Frankenstein shares traits with Satan, but they do not lead him to magnificence. Like Satan, he is deeply ambitious and overreaches in his aspirations. Both Frankenstein and Satan want to be like God, not simply serve God. Frankenstein feels driven to create human life, just as God did. He works day and night on this project but never considers the ethical implications of creating a human life. The creature he creates leads him not to glory and grandeur but to downfall and death.
Likewise, Satan's rebellion against God does not succeed, nor does his attempt to sever humankind and God. It is Satan who suffers for exalting himself, just as Frankenstein does. Both might share this sentiment of Satan's: “Me miserable!"
The Ancient Mariner also violates God's laws and God's sense of humanity when he kills the albatross that lead his ship to safety. He too is overly careless of God's creation and is punished for it by having to wander the earth as life-in-death.