Loneliness And Obsession In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The unwavering desire for knowledge may cause the decay of relationships. This idea is displayed as Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist, continually desires to create human life from inanimate materials, which leads to the destruction of many of his relationships. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, exhibits how the constant desire for information may cause the deterioration of relationships through the decayed relationships Victor has with himself, his family, and society.

In the novel, Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly, there are three different narrators throughout the whole book. This is important because we get 3 different looks into the same story.  The three perspectives allow us to form our own opinions about the story. Having three perspectives helps the reader understand everything a whole lot more because they get everyone’s story and side. Shelly also uses three different narrators for the reader to be able to step in each character’s shoes. Throughout the book, the reader is able to take sides with a certain character because the author used a unique writing style.

He chose to "avoid a crowd and to attach [himself] fervently to a few [schoolmates]" (Shelley 36). Characteristics like isolation can lead to an unhappy future and cause a person to totally remove himself from society. Though "[Frankenstein's] father had wished him 'to seek amusement in society [he] abhorred the face of man.' ... 'I felt that I had no right to share their intercourse,'" he admits (Goldberg 31). From the knowledge of Frankenstein's past the reader is able to understand the character's behavior and how it develops. Through the years Frankenstein has kept to himself, with a few exceptions, and is heavily involved in his studies. These conditions evolve to a more serious state over time. "Now, he reveals only the 'desire to avoid society' and fly 'to solitude, from the society of every creature.' . . . He is 'immersed in solitude,' for he perceives' an insurmountable barrier' between him and his fellow-man" (Draper 3206). This state of seclusion only adds to Frankenstein's deterioration and to the condition of his creation. Frankenstein's creature takes on the characteristics of his creator, just as children do with their parents. Due to the creator's reclusive habits and characteristics the Creature becomes as isolated and lonely as his creator. After being shunned by Frankenstein, the Creature wonders about lonely, "searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger"

Victor Frankenstein was obsessed with the idea of being able to create a monster. He was fascinated by the thought of being able to bring a figure back from the dead and have people use this operation to make their own lives better. He originally thought up the idea and put so much work into it because there was a possibility to make loved ones come back from the dead. His creation would help people never have to deal with the grief of losing someone they love again.

Frankenstein pushes the blame of disregarding his own family onto his father and the pursuit of knowledge. He chooses to not accept responsibility for ignoring those closest to him. He chooses to be apart from all of them. After returning home, Frankenstein?s isolation continues due to him knowing

Emotional isolation in Frankenstein is the most pertinent and prevailing theme throughout the novel.  This theme is so important because everything the monster does or feels directly relates to his poignant seclusion.  The effects of this terrible burden have progressively damaging results upon the monster, and indirectly cause him to act out his frustrations on the innocent.  The monster's emotional isolation makes him gradually turn worse and worse until evil fully prevails.  This theme perpetuates from Mary Shelley's personal life and problems with her father and husband, which carry on into the work and make it more realistic.(Mellor 32)  During the time she was writing this novel, she was experiencing the emotional pangs of her

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves-such a friend ought to be-do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures,” writes the narrator of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein. Without a companion of some sort, people will only suffer more. However, without the supervision of parents, children altogether are greatly affected for the rest of their lives. An innately good and sympathetic creature, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster struggles to survive in the human world. After creating and abandoning his creature, Dr. Frankenstein is the juxtaposition of a monster, portraying humans as shallow, judgmental, and uncaring. The monster simply wants humans to accept him as one of their own. Facing rejection in different forms, he becomes truly monstrous and evil, giving up hope of companionship as a result of his abandonment. Modern case studies of abandoned children report similar ideas. Children who are abandoned do not learn about morality, yet only people with morality are accepted by others as human. Children who are abandoned are frequently not accepted by others as human ultimately.

Written in 1817 by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is a novel about the "modern Prometheus", the Roman Titian who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. The story takes place in several European countries during the late 1700's. It is the recollection of Victor Frankenstein to a ship captain about his life. Victor is a student of science and medicine who discovers a way to reanimate dead flesh. In a desire to create the perfect race he constructs a man more powerful than any normal human, but the creation is so deformed and hideous that Victor shuns it. The creation then spends a year wandering searching for companionship, but everywhere he goes he is shunned and feared. Hating life

An outcast is someone that has been rejected from society for something that they may or may not be able to control. In Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel, Frankenstein, the creature is cast out from society because of his looks. He doesn’t get the love and care that people need to survive. Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley uses the creature symbolically, exploring the ideas of false hope, alienation, and revenge.

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear” said by Mary Shelley in Frankenstein. The book, Frankenstein, certainly invoked fear in the hearts of those who read it. Frankenstein is a fictional story based on a man named Victor Frankenstein who grows up in Geneva Switzerland, an eager doctor whose mother dies after getting the scarlet fever. This trauma causes him to become highly infatuated with the reviving of life. Thus, he intensely researches the topic and leads to him deciding on the steps to take to achieve his goals. His plan is simple, use body parts to create the ultimate, perfect man. He desecrates countless graves in order to get the specific body parts he required. After years of isolation, he devised the perfect man: Frankenstein’s

Frankenstein's creation is a complex character whose true motives cannot be determined easily. Although one cannot excuse his actions, they should certainly not be viewed out of context. The creature is exposed to the painful reality of loneliness from the moment of his creation. "I had worked hard for nearly two years," Victor states, "for the sole

I spent most of my days watching television and eaten chips. I saw my mom and dad at night and my brother during the day, not one else. I rarely went out with my parents on weekends and spent most of my time alone. I even spent a New Years Eve alone, well with my dog. This time alone was not one with lots of self reflection. It caused depression and lots of social anxiety.

Letting problems fester can lead to a domino effect. Many of the problems that come from parental abandonment and isolation from the world, are the inability to handle problems. In Frankenstein, the monster is unable to handle situations the correct way, leading to him killing multiple people throughout the book. The creature’s only thoughts are to get revenge on his creator, and he feels as if he only has two options of what to do with his life. “...if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear;” (Frankenstein 129). The monster goes around killing the people close to Victor just to exact revenge on him. First the monster starts off by killing Victor’s younger brother, William, in the woods. The monster does have reasons to be angry at Victor, those being Victor abandoning him and also destroying the wife that he was creating for him. “His

Alienation and isolation have been apparent in society since the beginning of man. When an individual stumbles outside the realm of social normality they are viewed as degradation to society or a threat to normal society.(“Truthmove” 2012) In the gothic tale of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley frequently displays the many different forms of alienation. Victor Frankenstein and his creation were two of the characters in this book that went through alienation and isolation.

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