The imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more wretched than I, pursued by the creature who had made me, and recoiling from him with a stronger repulsion, the more he admired me and the fonder he was of me.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 40. Pip expresses his thoughts when secret benefactor Magwitch the convict moves in with him and asks Pip to read to him. In an allusion to Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Pip imagines himself as the monster and Magwitch who created him as Dr. Frankenstein. Pip feels a deep sense of guilt and revulsion over helping Magwitch.