The poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley thematically connects to the book "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. Moreover, they connect because in Frankenstein, the creature has gone through many trials in his lifetime, just like Henley. They both have something taken away from them and have the same feeling, but have different reactions to having something of theirs be derived from them. Henley writes an amazing poem that speaks of falling then flying again and the creature just wants revenge for Frankenstein. Specifically, in the poem Henley states "I have not winced nor cried aloud... Finds, and shall find me unafraid," (Henley 6,12). I have interpreted this to the creature, because after the creature witnesses his future wife destroyed, the