Introduction It's easy to think of Frankenstein's Creature as the terror of all terrors. Look at horror fiction and you can easily gauge the long-term impact of Shelley's magnum opus. Halloween costumes of all sizes and shades, three film adaptations, countless spin-offs... Removing the distillation of traditional culture, however, it must be said that Shelley's idea was more substantial than creating nightmarish objects. In the book, the monster is anything but the mumbling, shuffling man depicted in the 1931 film. He is an eloquent soul, with full capacity for higher thought, so strangely human that Shelly draws frequent comparisons between him and Adam, the incarnation of humanity, God's first creation in Milton's epic Paradise Lost. This essay seeks to compare both these characters from the philosophical perspective of free will. In the first part I will analyze the duo's free will by analyzing their characters; in the second part I will venture into the religious messages and literary themes behind the stories. The thesis statement I want to address in this essay is that because Frankenstein's creature embodies more free will than Adam, he is less sympathetic. Free Will and Moral Responsibility The topic of free will has challenged the most famous of philosophers; each of them has their own argument, not to mention theologians. As a layman (and since this is not a philosophy essay), I will not go into detail, but it is certain that ethical philosophy is based on this assumption: human beings are autonomous (moral agents), and therefore are held responsible for own actions (moral responsibility). Based on this assumption I argue that since Franke...... half of the paper ......lton, J. Paradise Lost. Retrieved from www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Paradise-Lost.pdf‎Secondary SourcesAristotle, Ross WD (tr.) (2009)The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, New York: Oxford University PressPlato, Jowett B. (tr. with edits) (1991) Republic, New York: Vintage Books Godwin, W. (2011) Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Interspersed Productions and Discoveries from some details regarding the author, Kindle edition O'Connor, T. (Spring 2013) "Free Will", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Retrieved from http: //plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/freewill/ Eshleman, A. (Summer 2014), “Moral Responsibility,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2014/entries/moral-responsibility/