Loneliness In Frankenstein

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein puts the monster in a predicament that victimizes the monster. Victor creates the monster to be an “ugly wretch”(Shelley 141) therefore causing the monster grief for his entire life. The monster experiences severe loneliness for being an outcast. The monster is the greatest victim in this novel because of his creation, his loneliness, and everyone’s general fear or lack of concern for him.

In the first half of the passage, the author portrays the creature as a baby by creating a disoriented tone through the use of obscure diction and childlike imagery in order to express the creature’s bewilderment and lack of comprehension at the beginning of his life. The creature mentions how his earliest memories are “confused and indistinct”, that he remembers them with “considerable difficulty”, similar to how adults have a difficult time recounting

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"

“Frankenstein ostracizes himself over his guilt for creating a creature that causes death and destruction: ‘Solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, death-like solitude’”(Watkin). Since he left the creature in isolation, many of his loved ones were murdered. Eventually this left him to feeling exactly how the creature had to live, alone and isolated. “Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted creature, dare I ask thee to pardon me? I who destroyed thee by destroying those thou lovedst" (Shelley 241). After Frankenstein dies, the creature says “'The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet he, even he, man's enemy, had friends and associates; I am quite alone" (Shelley 243). The Creature considered Victor to be evil for bringing him into such a hateful world, and leaving for him to be isolated. The creature could not understand how someone so evil could have friends and people to talk to while he was all alone and much nicer than him. Solitude might be a desirable thing for Frankenstein but a misery for the creature. They both displayed different reactions to being isolated. Frankenstein would isolate himself and respond to it i more of an anxious way. He was nervous to see when the creature would pop up. The creature on the other hand did not want to be isolated, but forcefully was. Due to this he displayed acts of aggression and rage leading to the

Human are the most social animals in the world. When becoming isolated, it a signal that emotions have been turned amongst ourselves. If not already there, it is normal to feel depressed, lonely, alone. In Mary Shelley's gothic novel, both the monster and Frankenstein are isolated. Frankenstein will not tell anyone about his creation because he has no one to pour his emotions out to. This causes the loss of his family, friends,and lover. Until the end, he tells his experience to the force but was never really believed so his tale is only really heard by Robert Walton, an explorer with ambitions as strong as Victor himself. In Shelley's novel, she characterizes Victor Frankenstein and the monster as being isolated to convey their misery.

"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.

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is book about the importance of human relationships and treating everyone with dignity and respect. The main character of the book is Victor Frankenstein who is a very intelligent man with a desire to create life in another being. After he completes his creation, he is horrified to find that what he has created is a monster. The monster is the ugliest, most disgusting creature that he has ever seen. Victor being sickened by his creation allows the monster to run off and become all alone in the world. Throughout Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the theme of human relationships to illustrate the bond that man has with other beings and the need for love and affection. The importance of human relationships

Frankenstein and various other characters plagued the monster with the feeling of self-consciousness. This feeling never goes away and the creature acts out in rage as a result of this horrible feeling (Mellor Abandonment 77). Along with the feelings of self-consciousness, the creature also felt a great deal of loneliness,

Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.

Frankenstein Essay Response #6 In the Novel, Frankenstein, the author, Mary Shelley, uses cruelty as a form of motivation. This is seen through Frankenstein and the creature’s actions. This cycle of cruelty began with the creation of the creature, from his birth he was abandoned by his creature and rejected by society. As a result of his treatment his cruel actions came to be.

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

Lettie and the Narrator chase the “storm” which supposedly has the monster that created the silver coin in the boy’s throat that he was choking on. Once they enter the storm they see the monster within it. Lettie says that she needs to blind it so it can’t cause anymore trouble. Lettie tells the boy that he cannot let go of her hand hand when they are in the storm. Once Lettie speaks in a tongue that the boy has never heard of the monster is successfully blinded. It throws a ball of cobwebs and rags at the boy and he lets go of Lettie's hand, not thinking, to catch it. The boy immediately feels a sharp object enter his foot. The sharp object that went into his foot made the boy a doorway for itself to enter “our world”. The creature’s introduces itself as Ursula Monkton. Ursula Monkton becomes the boy’s family's Nanny. The boy’s mom, dad, and sister all seem to love Ursula but the boy knows better. Ursula Monkton represented the evil that posses humans in everyday

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein brings the judging nature of society into question by asking if loneliness is brought upon oneself, or developed through the interactions humans have with each other. With this, she analyses the blunt and ambiguous effects it can have. Shelley admits that humans often pass blame onto others for things they should take responsibility for however she also believes that some things are out of any single beings control. These two ideas are used by Shelley to analyse how loneliness can emerge into one's life. Mary Shelley depicts the effects and perils of loneliness as having a very negative effect on the lives and personalities of those individually consumed, while doing this, Shelley also clearly shows how it not

The negative reaction of the family caused him to view himself more and more as a monster. The creature blamed Frankenstein for creating for him a life of suffering. He sought out to find his creature and ask for one thing: a

The creature felt alone and angry with society and killed people who Frankenstein, his creator, deeply valued. The creature kills Frankenstein’s brother William, wife Elizabeth, and causes his maid Justine’s death. Solitude changes the creature’s perspective: the once gentle creature with a high stature and a rough voice, but a gentle manner was no more. Solitude tore through his mind and heart and changed his moral. Moreover, this idea of revenge can also be seen when the creature chases his master, Frankenstein, and kills him.