Isolation Is Swallowing Me Whole : Isolation

Victor had agreed to the creature’s proposition of creating a female monster to be his companion. However, after much thought and consideration in chapter 20 of Frankenstein, Victor abruptly changes his mind and tears the incomplete female monster apart. Victor feels compelled to cease his progress because of the multiple, potentially horrific outcomes. For example, Victor worries that he might create a monster even more horrific and terrifying then the first. When reflecting on the possibility of creating a female monster Victor states, “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness” (page 180). Victor has seen the terror the first monster had unleashed and the horrible

Victor Frankenstein’s thoughtless surrendering and animosity of his creation motivates the catastrophe in the novel. After devoting many hours of restless, yet hopeful, labor to his work, Victor completes his final masterpiece. However, he loses all hope as he explains how “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created, [he] rushed out of the room” (Shelley 36). Victor exhibits

Frankenstein is a tale of an individual with many mixed identities. Often hearing the name of Frankenstein comes along with a monstrous spirit. Although in Mary Shelley’s novel, The monster is the horrible creation from the scientist, he just wanted a friend that was the same level of intelligence with him and one that he could be able to speak with and be friends with. Victor robbed body parts from graves and he was ready to for this construction. One stormy October night, he brought it to life. When Victor saw this creature reaching out to him, attempting for a smile, Victor began scared and ran from the

Victor feels extremely guilty that he has created this creature, "It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me that might infuse a spark of being into lifeless thing that lay at my feet" (Frankenstein 34-35). The guilt expressed through the words of Victor shows how severe his mood changes are. He goes from being delighted that he has accomplished the impossible, to regretting ever the thought of creating something so hideous. Victor feels empty through out chapter five, because he feels so bad for creating this creature. Also the extreme loss of energy that Victor experiences after his manic episode, verifies that he has bipolar disorder. "…for I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time."(Frankenstein 38)

Victor Frankenstein engulfed in the dedication of creating a god like image of himself creates a monster. Upon its creation, the monster’s entire perception of the world was around Victor Frankenstein resembling an infant perceiving its surroundings through its parents. Victor was the monster’s “father”. The monster tried to learn more information on its creator by staring at Victor Frankenstein laid out on the bed. The monster is displaying the behaviors of the attachment theory. All of us have a predisposition to “instinctively and immediately seek to attach ourselves to someone who will keep us safe” (Lines 51). Victor Frankenstein is the first one who outcasts the monster. Victor shuns the monster for being hideous, from the moment he is resurrected. His aspirations of a creature worth admiring was plunged down the drain. Ostracized by Victor Frankenstein, the monster left the humble abode of Frankenstein. Child abandonment, in

After reading Frankenstein, the audience sees the way Victor Frankenstein interacts with his experiment and his excitement towards it, until the Monster is crafted and Victor is terrified of his own creation. The main gothic anxiety that Frankenstein plays with is fear; fear of the unknown and fear of the monster’s capabilities. The novel takes place in the eighteenth century throughout Europe and the Artic. The variety of locations that the novel takes place is significant because it shows the distance between Victor and whoever he is running from at that instance. While growing up Victor finds an interest in reading the works of outdated alchemists which leads him in developing an erg to learn more. Victor decides to continue his education and attends university at Ingolstadt where he studied modern science with a melancholic view. While attending university Victor meets two professors; professor Krempe and Waldman. Victor develops a close bond with Professor Waldman who sparks his obsession with the secret of life notion but does not like Krempe because of sharing different views on the study of alchemists.

Victor abandoned the monster both emotionally and physically. Physically he avoided the monster as much as he could and as often. “Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall.” (Shelley, 10.87). Frankenstein would rather be vanquished by an eight-foot tall monster than to communicate with the abomination of his own creation. He was hesitant to give the monster a chance. Victor spent his life running from him while his family and friends felt the fatalities as they were picked off one by one. Had Victor given the creature a chance or listened to the creature, he might not have had to live his life in fear. “`Hateful day

His cruel treatment of his own creation contributes to the creature’s inability to function as an ordinary human. Because Frankenstein’s creature is truly a toddler in age, he must be taught the difference between right and wrong in a caring fashion. Since Victor is so appalled by his outside appearance, he does not take the time to teach him the ways of humanity. The creature is incapable of making moral decisions and, therefore, if Victor had taught him this he would have been accepted by others. Due to the fact that Victor neglects him due to his “ugly” appearance, refuses to acknowledge his fault in his existence, and does not teach his creature how to act properly, he is unable to help the creature acclimate to

Victor was crying because inside he was falling apart, but at the same time the world around him was perfect. The descriptions and natural beauty of the world in Frankenstein help make the theme of appearances.The theme of appearance is most evident in the novel because of the monster’s struggle with his appearance. Throughout the novel the monster is tormented for his looks, but no one takes the time to get to know him as a person. The monster is so hideous even when he does good deeds he is still looked at as evil, “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted” (Shelley 103). The monster is just walking and notices a girl and she falls in the river, the monster jumps in and saves her and a man comes up and grabs the girl then shoots the monster. The guy that shot him judged the monster by his looks and automatically looked at him as evil. This is how his good deed is repaid. The monster meant no harm he just wanted to help. From this point on in the novel the monster is seeking revenge

Unlike God, Frankenstein neglects his creation. Victor is not there for his creature to cast his burdens on, or to confide in or show direction. In turn, Frankenstein’s creation lashes out against humanity, against even his own creator. Frankenstein’s lack of affection and care for what he had created set forth a domino effect of the creature’s horrible

The monster did not look like everyone else.”It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candles was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”. His essential features were not human like. This made others not like him that well. He was different and as not much has changed people still do not like those who are different. “But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my creature I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimidated that the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations”(166). This shows how much Victor regretted creating his monster. He feared for his family's life, but now he has to face it and face how much he messed

This incitement causes the monster to go into a killing frenzy and attack anyone around him, including Victor. With the monster being portrayed in such a feral way, the well developed, intellectual, human relationship that Shelley crafted gets obliterated from this retelling and is instead interpreted with no emotional, human connection between creator and creation. Victor Frankenstein also takes Victor's motive for creating the monster and adds reasons that make the expectation for the success of the monster even more

Frankenstein’s early chapters do much to express the sentiment that Victor’s actions are unnatural and wrong. For starters, Victor allows his pursuit of scientific knowledge to fully consume him. Spending almost every second of every day reading scholarly texts and conducting experiments, he begins to neglect his family, friends and health to the point where he becomes socially isolated and deathly ill. This extreme decline in Victor’s condition is the

The monster 's appearance causes his creator to abandon him and prevents him from normal human interaction. He is forced to learn about the world on his own and spends most of his time watching others. Frankenstein is not the only one negatively affected by his existence. In the process of bringing the monster to life, Victor had deprived himself of rest and health, causing him to fall ill for several months. Shortly after his recovery, Victor learns his younger brother has been murdered. Frankenstein has killed his creator’s brother and framed an innocent girl to get back at Victor for abandoning him. After the girl is executed, Victor becomes consumed with guilt knowing he is responsible for two of his family members deaths. The monster does not stop there, he goes on to kill Victor’s friend Henry and fiance, Elizabeth. Because of his creation, Victor is haunted by depression and guilt for most of his life and died a lonely death hunting Frankenstein.

It was made out of many dead bodies which made it look ugly. When Victor saw the creature alive in front of him, he was scared by the thought of what he ended up with. Frankenstein’s monster is like a new-born baby. It did not know how to speak or cope up with the world. When Victor turned his back on the monster, it felt betrayed. It did not get the love and support it should’ve been given. Also, when the world was reluctant to accept the creature even after it helped them, it started harming the people who hurt him. It felt lonely as it was not taken care of by the only father figure he had, Victor himself. The monster told Victor, “You had made me, but why had you not looked after me, and saved me from this pain and unhappiness?” (Page 30) This showed how much deprived of happiness the monster was, which made him take revenge from Frankenstein.