The True Doppelgangers One of the most well known TV shows of all time is Seinfeld. A comedy where at its core, is about horrible people quarreling with the kind people in their surrounding environment. A direct opposite can be seen in the cinematic masterpiece known as Mad Max, a tale of a few morally correct protagonists venturing through the insanity and evil of the apocalypse. the same correlation can be seen through the protagonists Victor and George in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck respectively. While Victor is truly a morally wrong person who abandoned his responsibility and rejected the outside world to protect it from the results of his ignorance, George embraces and cares for his responsibility in order to protect it from the horrors of the outside world that, despite George's assurances, still despised what he loved. Whether a responsibility is brought upon by oneself, or throne upon them by another without question, failure to fulfill that duty, whether intentional or accidental, results in one's own downfall.…show more content… Victor beholding his creation and new responsibility, immediately abandoned it, describing it as,”... How delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?” (Shelly 51). Victor, in his attempt to better the world, failed and created his own downfall. In complete divergence from Victor's path, George had no requirement to care for Lennie, and yet still accepted the task of caring for this feeble-minded giant, and protecting him from the evil world that surrounded The Duo. The two protagonists took entirely different paths, and their results reflected
