The Theme Of Loneliness In Frankenstein

The monster gains our sympathy from the telling of his perspective. His personal story reveals his own suffering and rejection. This monster has not been given a name, so already he must feel like he does not belong. To have a name means you have a sense of identity, and because the creature does not have this he will feel lost and rejected. When he is abandoned by Victor and the villagers, he weeps in despair, which shows he has feelings. When he sees what we see, that he is a monster, upon looking at his reflection he was ‘filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence

A loss of belonging is not something to be taken lightly because it can cause people or monsters to do harsh things. In this novel, Victor Frankenstein feels like he belongs with his soon to be wife, Elizabeth. She wishes to get married soon because she adores him. Victor losses this sense of belonging because he is consumed in the making of his monster. Once he marries Elizabeth, though, he says “those were the last moments of my life during which I enjoyed the feeling of happiness” (Shelley 176). Victor finally has someone who love and needs him and this lets him recover from his obsession with building the monster. Now he feels safe and happy with his wife. Without human connection people do not feel as though they belong and act rashly. The monster loses his attachment to DeLacey and now feels that he is not appreciated or needed by his friend. Since he loses his friend he acts harshly and “fired the straw, and the heath, and the bushes, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames” (Shelley 124). He loses everything and this causes an outburst from him. He punished the DeLaceys, but really only makes himself look more like the monster people perceive him to be. Now society believes, because of his actions, he is a truly evil monster. Human connections can also help lead to other new relationships between

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"

He was brought into the world with no one to give him knowledge, support, and guidance. He was completely deserted by his creator. When he tried to make friends, everyone either ran away from him or tried to kill him. Calridge states, “At the time of his first violent act, he is merely seeking fellowship with another human, and he assumes little William, the “beautiful child” so unlike himself, to be too young to have formed prejudices based on appearance. Enraged to the point of murder…” This statement shows how everything the creature feels or does stems back to Victor. If Victor had just accepted and loved his creature for what he was, then he wouldn’t have killed little William or any of Victor’s other loved ones. His rejection and misfortune was not caused by his actions, but rather his appearance, a physical trait that Victor had created and the creature could not change. The creature's problem was that he was “ugly” and “deformed”, but he did not choose to be physically deformed. Victor created him that way. Thus, Victor is ultimately responsible for the creature's rejection.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley emphasizes that Frankenstein’s Monster was a sad and extremely lonely creature. At the beginning of the book, Frankenstein’s Monster tried to communicate, connect, and socialize with people; however, the whole village was terrified of him, and even his own creator ran away and left him

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.

It is easy to draw a correlation between mistreatment and low self-esteem, the removal to solitude provides respite from the antagonisms of society. However, the monster’s negative experiences and shaping of his short life-time as an impressionable child force him into a deplorable journey are in part because of his reflection of his experiences. Although he finds pleasure in the singing birds in his early walk, the hold of society on him from his self-love is overpowering and becomes futile. The monster can not reflect in the beauty of an isolation that reminds him of how utterly alone is or, or reflect on a society that has exiled him completely. The creature calls himself “miserable and abandoned” and “abortion to be spurned at and kicked” [Shelley].

The choices we make set our path to our destination in life. Victor Frankenstein created a monster to heal his own disease of loneliness, obsession, and suffering. By doing so, he designed a monstrosity that spiraled out of control. He was on a journey of self-fulfillment to finding access to the key of life.

The monster feels isolated, as he is the only one in his species. He is alone in the world and when he asks Frankenstein to create "mate" for him. He refuses and suffers for not taking responsibility and so is punished severely by losing his love, Elizabeth. The monster punishes Frankenstein for isolating him from the rest of humanity.

The monster is in need of help from his creator, for he is new to the world and does not know anything about living yet, but instead, he has nobody and is forced to figure life out by himself. Readers understand the monster’s emotion because he says “I sat down and wept”. By understanding his emotion, it will cause readers to feel sympathy for him. This also proves one of the larger themes of the novel, that people should treat others with empathy, because as his creator, Frankenstein should have been able to understand and share his feelings, for he was often alone and left to teach and fend for himself during his studies. Frankenstein’s reject to his creation is what caused the monster to feel so alone, and ultimately, what led to both of their destructions.

Frankenstein and the monster’s regard for human life diminished as they began to play God with the lives of others. After leaving the cottage and seeing how even people as kind as Felix and Agatha could not look past his own superficial hideousness the monster turned violent, in an effort to cause as much harm to his creator as Dr. Frankenstein had to him by making the monster so ugly that all of humanity hated him. In an effort to control Victor’s life, the monster killed Dr. Frankenstein’s brother, wife, and best friend, all while trying to blackmail Victor into creating another monster. In the face of rejection from humankind the monster transitioned from wanting compassion, to attempting to command fear “[the monster] was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend, make me happy and I shall again be virtuous.” (.94) The monster recognized the horror he had become and forced his pain upon Victor in order for his creator to feel as much pain as he, the creation, had to endure. Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s desire and success in discovering the secrets of biological science caused him to believe that he was of a higher status than the rest of humanity, whom he believed to be too prideful over their few accomplishments. This perceived self superiority over humanity was what led him to try and create a higher-caliber race, which could accomplish all that normal humans could not. Dr. Frankenstein threw away his relationships with family and friends in the pursuit of

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

He found his creator’s, Victor Frankenstein’s, notebook in his lab coat. As the monster realized why Victor abandoned him, he felt bitter hatred in his heart instead of love, and it was hungry for revenge on his creator. Because of the love in his heart for a family, he had less hatred of his father and tried to approach the humans. When two children saw the monster with their father, they forced him to flee. This shows the cruelty of how people judge others unfairly. Just like from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, just because a person or creature looks like a monster, a dangerous killer, or an ugly freak does not mean they can’t be kind-hearted like everybody else. After witnessing the rejection from the two children, instead of finding love by kindness, he decides to use his hatred and force his creator to build him a loving

After the murder of his youngest brother, Victor begins to truly realize how terrible his creation is. The monster has killed William and who knows what he might do next? As Victor expresses in this quote, “was this his first crime?” implying that this may not be the last time that Victor’s monster causes heartache. From the point of view of the monster (who is also a major character), he pursues a goal that is seemingly good for himself, killing William, and definitely bad for society, represented by Victor’s family losing their beloved child. Apparently intelligent to some degree, the monster knew that William was his creator’s brother. His act of murder was meant to hurt Victor, thus making himself feel better about whatever it may be that

not because of his affection for him. While the monster loved the family, they feared him because of his appearance. Because of the encounter with the family the monster learned, the one emotion that would later govern his life, the monster learned to hate. The monster hated his creator for making him so hideous. By giving him this appearance; Victor forced his creation to live a life of loneliness, with an absence of love or