William Blake’s The Sick Rose depicts various expressions of possible terror or ecstasy at the term of creation, love, and destruction. In the illustration there is multiple worm eating away at the leaf of a rose whilst all around are several portrayals of women, around the plant and one budding from the rose, that seem to be in despair. The poem within the image expresses that the “invisible” worm and its “dark secret love” is destroying the rose’s life. This message allows relation between the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley and Blake’s The Sick Rose. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein, envelops himself in the obsession of creating an artificial form of life through various methods and with the obsession of solely focusing on creating this life the relationships around him with familiars and friends begin to cripple. Much like that of the worm intruding on the budding rose.